Kansas Chamber releases poll showing significant support for coal-burning power plants - KTKA.com

Topeka — The Kansas Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday turned up the political heat for a bill to allow the construction of two 700-megawatt coal-burning power plants with the release of a poll that indicates significant support for the proposal.

“In all categories you see the support outweighs the opposition to the coal plant,” said Amy Blankenbiller, president and chief executive officer of the Chamber.

Fifty-one percent favor “the building of a new electrical power plant that uses coal in Kansas,” according to the poll. Twenty-six percent oppose it, and 23 percent were undecided, according to the poll of 600 registered voters that was conducted last week.

COCA-COLA LTD: Company that deliberately laces your drinks with CO2 puts out an inane press release about the alleged dangers of CO2

From a list of five Olympic sports, the most popular to try out in the dark is skeleton (face-first luge - racing a sled down an icy track face-first) -- 29 per cent chose it as the best Olympic sport to do without any light followed by ice dancing (23%), bobsled (21%), luge (18%) and pairs figure skating (8%), but 33 per cent recommend against ski jumping in the dark (the number one choice of five options, ice hockey (28%), pairs figure skating (15%), freestyle skiing (15%) and speed skating (9%)

Edward Norton Compares 'Symbolic' Global Warming Event to Selma's 'Bloody Sunday'

Actor and 'official ambassador for Earth Hour' compares turning out lights for hour to Civil Rights event marked by brutal attacks on its participants.
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Larry King did remind Norton that the “symbolic” Earth Hour event has its limits. The CNN host wanted Norton to tell people not to turn off their car lights if they were driving.

I wonder if any of the "little people" would be smart enough not to turn their headlights off on their own, even without the sage advice of Larry King or Ed Norton?