And if you ask any questions, it means you hate polar bears: Japanese Companies to Build Wind Farms in Bulgaria - Standart

Several big Japanese energy companies declared their interest in building wind farms in Bulgaria during a Tokyo-held Bulgarian-Japanese business forum inaugurated by Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov yesterday. "Our current strategy involves investing into alternative energy sources," participant company reps explained. Some of them even said they were planning a visit to Bulgaria to probe the local business climate and energy market. It also transpired during the forum that there were plans for launching a direct Sofia-Tokyo air route. After the presentations of the Bulgarian delegation, part of the Japanese companies also presented their business profile.

Former Soviet propaganda artist has an interesting take on scientific consensus and Obama's plan to "roll back the specter of a warming planet"

Oleg Atbashian (AKA "Red Square" at The People's Cube) wrote an "out-of-character essay" for Andrew Breitbart's new site, Big Hollywood. The essay entitled, Cracking the Obama Code: Don Quixote vs. the Windmill Owners dissects President Barack Obama's inaugural address as well as any red-blooded, American-born, communist-fearing conservative Republican could, except that Atbashian was born in Ukraine, and is a former Soviet propaganda artist before he came to the US in 1984. So while it's easy for American liberals to pooh-pooh American conservatives criticism of Obama as communist/socialist/collectivist, it's much harder for those same American liberals to pooh-pooh the Obama is a socialist criticism when it comes from a person who was born and raised behind The Iron Curtain, and worked for the propaganda arm of the Communist Party.

Yet cold waves don't show they were wrong: Heatwave shows climate scientists are right, Wong says

The scorching weather across southern Australia proved the accuracy of warnings by climate change scientists, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says.

Jennifer Marohasy » So Hot in Southern Australia, and In 1900

Of course it’s been hot before in southern Australia. Following is text published on January 1, 1900. [2]

“THE oppressive heat was a major talking point of the vast and drought stricken country of Australia.

“While cyclonic winds have been lashing the coast off Townsville, the temperature today soared to 112 degrees Fahrenheit (44.4 C) in Adelaide and Broken Hill, and 104 (40C) in Melbourne.

“So dry is much of Australia that the riverboats on the Murray have come to a stand still. On a cattle station in central Queensland, it is reported that the kangaroos are too weak to hop and the kookaburras can no longer fly...."