Cold Weather Creates TVA Winter Record

Jan. 16--Today's frigid temperatures pushed electricity demand to a record wintertime high in the Tennessee Valley, officials said today.

But of course: Climate Change Recalculated Talk with Saul Griffith

"It is not accurate to say we can still stop climate change," says Saul Griffith, the Bay Area inventor who received a MacArthur "genius" award in 2007. "We are now working to stop worse climate change or much-worse-than-worse climate change."

Griffith has done the research and the math to figure out exactly what it will take for humanity to soften the impact of climate change in the next 25 years, and he lays it out in a dazzling presentation. It is horrifying news. The politics and technologies we have now are not up to the task.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Heathrow's protesters bridge the class divide - Telegraph

At 23, [Jen Hill] seems to have emerged from a classic “protester” mould. Indeed, as an English literature graduate from Cambridge, she has. (“It sometimes seems that everybody has gone to Cambridge,” one eco-suffragette confesses later).

Record Breaking Cold Hits America While Obama Plans Fight Against Global Warming | All American Blogger

Obama, however, like all Democrats, won’t let a little thing like facts get in the way of ideology. He’s still pushing forward with his green initiatives. Meaning that at the beginning of what could be global cooling, he’s going to make energy prices necessarily skyrocket. Now you know why they switched from “global warming” to “climate change.” They were hedging their bets.

The sad thing is, if McCain had won, he’d be doing the same thing.

3 day workshop on 'global warming and Kerala' from Monday

Thiruvananthapuram (PTI): In a bid to find local solutions to global environment problems, the state forest department will conduct a three-day workshop here on `Global warming and Kerala' from January 19, forests minister Binoy Viswam said here on Friday.

Speaking to reporters here, he said that emission of greenhouse gases and tree-felling were the main causes of global warming. Research, mitigation and adaptation were needed to check this, he said.

Claiming that Kerala was the first state to organise such a workshop, he said the department was striving to create an awareness among people that planting of trees was the answer to halt global warming. A total of 51 lakh saplings had been planted in Kerala in the last two years, he said.