Hawaii Reporter note

President Obama's environmental bureaucrats are all from coastal states and Democratic lawmakers from the Midwest and Plains States worry that their global warming policies will further damage their economies.

The Goracle's global warming screed may be frozen out (Wizbang)

See? Even when it's freezing, it's still proof of global warming! No matter what the weather does, it means that global warming is REAL, REAL, REAL! Temperatures burning up? Global warming. Temperatures freezing? Global warming. Too much rain? Global warming. Not enough rain? Global warming. Lots of hurricanes? Global warming. No hurricanes? Global warming. Disappearing polar ice? Global warming. Too much polar ice? Global warming!

See? We must listen to the Goracle, for he truly understands Gaia, and is totally not in it to swindle people out of every penny he can. Who cares if nothing he has said has come to be true? It's Al Gore! He invented the internet! It must be true, no matter what the weather actually does.

Australia Scaring Off Overseas Solar Power Investment [By Not Throwing Sufficiently Large Amounts of Cash At Them]?

According to a recent article by Royce Millar in The Age, Australia is losing out billions of dollars in overseas investment and countless local jobs through not providing solar companies incentives that are available in other countries.

The article cites several examples where overseas companies have taken their cash elsewhere, including a Norwegian company looking for a home for its new $800 million solar cell production facility that would have employed 1300 people. A German-based solar panel manufacturer that visited Australia late last year also turned tail due to the lack of appropriate incentives.

A representative of one of the companies expressed amazement as to why Australia was still so focused on fossil fuels such as coal, stating the country was essentially just mining for the Chinese.