This counts as "evidence", right?: Melting Sunglasses Illustrate Global Warming

While it might not be quite hot enough to melt us humans into bubbling piles just yet, summer temperatures can make us feel like our skin is literally falling from our bones. These groovy Melting Sunglasses by Anna Ter Haar feel our pain and they illustrate it perfectly.

MailTribune.com: Walden calls Obama's energy bill 'an Oregon job killer'

WHITE CITY — Rep. Greg Walden said Saturday that an energy bill hailed by the Obama administration as a "jobs bill" is "an Oregon job killer." Speaking to TV cameras in front of White City's Biomass One site for recycling wood waste, The 2nd District Republican denounced the bill's definition of renewable energy.

"Where the measure could create jobs in the woods, create new markets for woody biomass, attract new investment to our rural communities, it instead turns off the oxygen and pulls the plug by declaring woody biomass from all federal lands, and most private forest lands, is not renewable," Walden said.

More raving lunacy from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"We're living in a science fiction nightmare," Kennedy said. "This is all part of the national cost of coal. It's abundant, but it's not cheap and it's not clean."

Kennedy said he has great hope that the Obama administration and allies in Congress will pass legislation that will turn back the clock on global warming and push for an end to the nation's reliance on foreign oil within eight years if the president wins a second term. Kennedy said he attended a recent environmental summit with former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, Congressional officials and corporate leaders who are pledging support for a cap and trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Besides mustering the political will in Washington and in communities across the country, Kennedy said the biggest hurdle to "decarbonizing" the country is to build a new electric grid that runs on renewable power, like wind, solar and the geothermal energy that keeps the lights on inside his home in the Adirondacks. He also predicted that "everybody will be driving electric cars in 10 years."