Ed Miliband [desperately wants to be lobbied by people with an irrational fear of carbon dioxide] | Operation Noah

A wide coalition of schools, churches, community and environmental groups are planning a mass lobby of Ed Miliband MP on Saturday July 11th in Doncaster. In December this year, the nations of the world meet in Copenhagen for a crunch UN climate change summit. It faces the huge task of capping and reversing greenhouse gas emissions and safeguarding the future of the planet. Mr Miliband has called for a “populist push” on the issue of global warming...

President Obama [Wants to Force You to Use Crappy Light Bulbs Against Your Will]

The standards will make the hundreds of millions of fluorescent tube lamps that light offices, stores, and factories more efficient. They also will phase out conventional incandescent reflector lamps, effectively extending the phase out of inefficient incandescent products initiated by Congress in 2007 to the common cone-shaped bulbs used in recessed light fixtures and track lighting.

“With our nation’s birthday around the corner, President Obama has provided the nation an early gift in the form of big energy savings, dollar savings, and pollution cuts,” said Andrew deLaski, Executive Director of the Appliance Standards Awareness Project (ASAP). “However, even bigger savings could have been achieved.”