Can Oregon's climate change plan survive a down economy?: Let them build solar-powered steel plants

Putting a gradually tightening cap on emissions is the smartest way to wean the economy off fossil fuel, volatile in price, questionable in source and diminishing in quantity, said Eric de Place, senior researcher with the Sightline Institute, a Seattle-based environmental think tank.

"It is not a winning strategy to need huge amounts of energy to generate a buck," de Place said. "If an Oregon steel plant uses a ton of power, the best strategy to protect those jobs is to make it the cleanest, meanest, most efficient steel plant there is."

Al Kleinke of Nevis mocks Gore and Oberstar: Here’s a global warming update | Park Rapids, Minnesota

Regrettably, neither Al nor Jim were aware that Nimrod’s global warming conference had to be cancelled, for the second year in a row, due to severe cold weather. As a good will gesture Menahga’s City Council invited honest Al to be a judge for the upcoming ice fishing contest on Spirit Lake. In light of his recent frostbite experience, Al declined, citing lack of confidence in future weather predictions. Also, without being able to speak Finnish, he expressed concern about obtaining help in the event his limo hit the ditch again.

Gore mocked in New York: Record Cold Chills North Country

WARREN COUNTY—Although residents in the North Country are pretty hardy, the cold temperatures of the last week are starting to make even the hardiest winter weary.

Mention Al Gore and his global warming spiel to them and they’ll likely chuckle and wink, suggest that the man may be “one fry short of a Happy Meal” and needs to visit the North Country.

Dead batteries, frozen fuel lines, frozen water pipes and furnaces struggling to keep up have been the norm over the last three or four days...