Thursday, January 22, 2009

UK: Florida climate change "experts" take fossil-fueled trips across the pond
Climate change experts from Florida headed to Birmingham to exchange innovative ideas and share best practice on driving forward the low carbon economy on either side of the Atlantic.

A 25-strong delegation of leading Florida academics, research and development (R&D) experts and environmental policymakers met their UK counterparts at a one-day conference in Birmingham, hosted by law firm Martineau.
Inauguration fiasco: Terrance Gainer hearts Global Warming?
Part of the problem, Gainer said, was that people wearing bulky winter clothing took up more space than officials had expected.
Yes, according to Gainer, it seems that Washington, DC, isn’t suffering from enough global warming.
These Cold-Weather Stocks Are Hot
As the temperature across a large portion of the U.S. turns from cold to colder, some stocks start to warm up and benefit from the brutal shift in weather.
Gore Will Appear Before Senate Panel on Climate Change - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
In an interview with The Times’s Carl Hulse just last week, Senator Kerry said that he would make global warming a premier piece of the [Senate Foreign Relations Committee's] work, and would take advantage of the Obama administration’s interest in the worldwide reach of the topic. “I think we are standing on the threshold of a huge opportunity to actually get something done,” he said in the interview. “The Obama administration is going to have to get up to speed very, very quickly.”

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