Gore lectures Senate on global warming. Again. - The Inquirer

Gore was invited to give a hysterical, melodramatic speech at Congress, accompanied by his usual box of slides and video clips of impending planetary doom, to promote President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package, which earmarks billions of dollars for renewable energy and more eco friendly infrastructure and transportation.

In Iowa, Questions Arise on Impact of Ethanol Production | January 28, 2009 | PBS

HEIDI CULLEN: Scientists studying climate change are equally concerned with how increased ethanol production in Iowa may be affecting land use in other parts of the world. They say the switch from soy to corn in Iowa has contributed to the rise in the global price of soybeans; that has led farmers around the world to plant additional acres of soybeans and profit from higher prices, possibly cutting down trees to do so, and thereby emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

I doubt it: Kulongoski Hopes History Will Color His Legacy Green

When history writers decades from now take stock of the Kulongoski administration, he says, they won't care about one more budget meltdown. So in the midst of Oregon's worst economy in decades, he's pushing to make sure they'll write about windmills, solar panels, electric cars, and buoys turning ocean waves into energy.

"They're going to look back," he predicts, "and say Oregon planted the flag first."