CALIFORNIA CLIMATE REGULATIONS LIKELY TO SEND SOME SILICON VALLEY JOBS TO JAPAN?

"The financial impact is going to be severe," Gus Ballis, a spokesman for chip maker NEC Electronics America Inc., a subsidiary of NEC Electronics Corp. in Japan, told the board. The Sacramento-area facility, one of California's largest high-tech plants, will have until 2014 to comply because it is retooling.

But, Ballis warned, "We're potentially on the chopping block -- whether they are going to keep us or pull our production back to Japan." [Via Greenie Watch]

Doing the math on the allegedly melting ice

By my calculation, if the WAIS is 10% of all the ice, then it would take 96 years to raise sea levels 12 inches at the alarming rate of 114,000,000,000 tons of melt per year (3,600,000,000,000 cuft).

We're moving up in snowiest winters - syracuse.com

Get ready to add 2008-2009 to your list of Central New York's snowiest winters.

Thanks, in part, to a record-breaking snowfall on Saturday, more than 12 feet of snow have piled up in Central New York this season. [Via Global Freeze]