Britain's cold winter can be beautiful too as first snowdrops start blooming | Mail Online

Snowdrops have flowered at their latest for 10 years due to the recent cold snap, an expert said today.

The winter blooms appeared around two weeks later than normal at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire, where hundreds of varieties of the flower are grown.

Navajo Nation Steps Up to Supply America's Energy Needs | GlobalWarming.org

Greenwire has a long lead story (subscription required) in today's edition by Daniel Cusick about the plans of the Navajo Nation to build three huge new coal-fired power plants totaling 5,300 megawatts in order to exploit their enormous coal resources. These new plants could supply enough electricity for approximately four million homes in the rapidly growing cities of the Southwest.
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While many of the nation's major utilities advocate energy-rationing policies, such as cap-and-trade, that would price coal out of the market and thereby lead to rapid increases in electricity prices for consumers and manufacturers and probably to chronic regional blackouts, it's great to see the Navajos stepping forward to help supply the energy that America needs.

Doesn’t anybody read history? — MasterResource

Below, the table compares some of the similarities between the late 1970s energy folderol and the most recent fears, warnings, importunings, etc.