Tesla battery pack: $30k - AutoblogGreen

The current cost of replacing the Roadster battery pack is $30,000! That may be the first time that Tesla has publicly acknowledged the replacement cost of the battery.

Green Jobs: Is the Science “Settled” on This, Too? — MasterResource

If professional climatologists want to say that people like me (though not Richard Lindzen!) have no business criticizing their models, that’s fine. But by the same token, when my colleague and I issue a critique of “green job” studies, these same critics ought to keep their mouths shut, right? (Note that I am not saying economists have a monopoly on economic truth–ha! Far from it. I am just making a point about the inconsistency in the rhetoric coming from the alarmists.)

Gobal Warming Primer by E.M Smith « The Air Vent

A post by E.M. Smith on a Watts Up with That thread. He lays out global warming with a bit of passion for a new guy on the thread...

Snowblower sales booming - WSJ.com

Helping spur sales: a series of intense storms during December, which moved across the western, central and northern states, breaking more than 2,000 daily snowfall records, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.