Renewable Energy Standards: Much Ado About Not Too Much - Environmental Capital - WSJ

For all the fireworks over a national renewable-energy standard, actually putting one in place won’t much change the future energy mix—or the cost of electricity.

The Met Office UK summer forecast - Mad Dogs and Englishmen « Watts Up With That?

Persistence is the British trait which kept the Shackleton crew alive and helped England withstand the Nazi’s throughout World War II. It keeps the Catlin Crew going and kept Lewis Pugh relentlessly paddling his kayak over Arctic Ice towards the pole. And it is the same trait which keeps the UK Met Office forecasting warm summers year after year. The Met Office forecast 2007 to be the warmest year ever globally, and a hot summer in the UK.

Minnesota House says no to new nuclear power plants

A move to open Minnesota to future nuclear power plants fell short Thursday in the House, hurting the chances of any change this year.

The vote was 72-60 against undoing a 15-year-old moratorium on new nuclear facilities.

Murdock: War on CO2 leaves Americans waiting to exhale | ScrippsNews

CO2 hidden within a new forest's trees would stay stashed until 2100. But wind turbines and atomic reactors age. Either of those strategies would have to be repeated periodically until the 22nd Century, and at epic expense. Remember: Every billion spent combating CO2 as if it were the swine-flu virus is one less billion to cure the swine flu, educate Kindergartners, or feed impoverished octogenarians.

"The idea that the world can achieve these atmospheric targets at anything approaching affordable cost is quite simply fantasy," Murray told me. "After 10 years with no temperature increase -- something the climate models failed to predict -- it is irresponsible in the extreme to suggest we should try to meet these targets at any cost. It would be like Gerald Ford's flu vaccinations, which seemed like a good idea to save a few hundred lives, but ended up killing a thousand. Except the human cost here could be orders of magnitude bigger."