But of course: Riding your bike improves the weather

The House climate bill requires every state and metropolitan area with more than 200,000 residents to devise plans for reducing transportation-related carbon emissions. The bill directs states and localities to draft plans that "consider transportation and land use strategies" that encourage transit use, walking and bike riding, as well as equal access by all users.

The Washington Independent » More Fire From Environmentalists Over Dems Climate Change Bill

...environmentalists are calling for Democrats to scrap this proposal and start the process anew — this time focusing their climate change bill on alleviating climate change, not catering to the polluters causing climate change.

Bill opponents might yet be in luck. That’s because even in its watered down state, the Waxman bill is still too radical for most Republicans to swallow. That won’t matter so much in the House, but this thing might easily die in the Senate.

A ‘Breakthrough Technology’ - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Of course, building a solar house in a state that is in winter overcast six months out of the year might seem a tad ambitious. But its green builders promised that the home’s full-roof solar panels would not only provide electricity, but also charge a home battery system that would store energy for all heating needs.

Or not.