Think Again: The Green Economy

...Many of these ideas are very much worth pursuing for environmental reasons. But it's doubtful they offer a double dividend of helping to jump-start the economy. For one thing, the global financial crisis is fundamentally about different issues: the popping of housing and credit bubbles from St. Petersburg to San Francisco, the associated implosion of a highly leveraged international banking sector, and the resulting fallout on real economies. These pressing problems won't be solved by switching to hydrogen-powered cars or installing solar panels on every roof.

On second thought, it's reasonable

Applying the impact of greenhouse gases worldwide to polar bears could also open it to other animals and plants whose environments might be affected by global warming as well.

The Obama administration's decision reasonably prevents that overreaching application of the Endangered Species Act.

Snow, cheese and potatoes | Stuff.co.nz

Yes, I enjoy skiing over the stuff but I'm way past moving it from driveways and parking spots. And way, way past moving it twice a day from the same driveway and parking spots in some kind of evil winter-wonderland Groundhog Day.

Long-term Abondance Valley residents tell me there hasn't been this much snow for 11 years. Doesn't that kind of debunk the theory of global warming?

I'll probably be clobbered for suggesting that.

Ocean Conference Reviews Climate Change Impact On The Future - Science News - redOrbit

"The conference will be non-binding but it is the highest political level ocean conference done so far," said Indroyono Soesilo, the Indonesian official in charge. "If we are able to put oceans into world climate change policies it will be a success for us because it has never happened before."

"Because of global warming we will have sea level rises that will make some island nations disappear, so let's do something about that," Soesilo added.