FT.com | FT Energy Source | Steven Chu: Open source software can reduce need for coal plants

Could open source software save the planet? Steven Chu, the US energy secretary, says it can certainly help, by making it easier for all countries to access tools to design and build more energy-efficient buildings.

Should you grill up some nice meaty burgers to say farewell to a global warming alarmist?

After nearly two years of fighting global warming with the rest of my wonderful colleagues (and all of you awesome volunteers and activists!), it’s time for me to say farewell.
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Please RSVP so that we know how much food to get - we’ll provide burgers (veggie and non) and drinks...

After the Wane in Spain, He Turns Vainly to the Danes - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Yesterday, President Obama went to Nellis Air Force Base, as we know, to tout solar and wind energy. And his rhetorical appeal was to tie that to our consumption of foreign oil, only further emphasizing his illiteracy on the issues or his expectation of yours.

But the most interesting part is that (as I've been predicting to colleagues) he dropped Spain as his case study. All Spring, not an energy speech went by without Obama waxing eloquent about Spain as a model for economic development driven by alternative energy. Gabriel Calzada's research on the disastrous economic effects of Spain's embrace of renewables . . . complicates that argument. So instead of touting Spain, the president (per my recent predictions) substituted Denmark.

Global warming must stay below 2C or world faces ruin, scientists declare - Times Online

The world’s carbon emissions must peak within just six years, if humanity is to stand a chance of preventing dangerous global warming, a group of 20 [what happened to the other alleged 2,480?]  Nobel Prize-winning scientists, economists and writers has declared.