Army Starts Solar Plant; Next Step: Care About Climate Change | Danger Room | Wired.com

The solar plant at Ft. Irwin will require at least 1.5 billion dollars total, and should be ready to crank electrons by 2022.

This will be a big break from the military past, said Geiss. “We have clear examples, at least in the past 100 years, where the lack of fuel has hindered military operations. What held Patton back in Germany was that Eisenhower was turning the fuel over to Montgomery.”

How'd you like to go into battle in a solar-powered tank?

In New York, It’s the Summer That Isn’t - NYTimes.com

Not one 99-degree day in Central Park. Not a single day that the temperature even approached 90. For just the second time in 140 years of record keeping , the temperature will have failed to reach 90 in either June or July.
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In the end, this will have been the coolest June and July since either 1903 or 1881, when sweltering New Yorkers grumbled about a sudden early August heat wave.

Bravo, Dick Armey

DICK ARMEY: What I’m suggesting is we have a sort of an eco-evangelical hysteria going on and it leads me to almost wonder if we are becoming a nation of environmental hypochondriacs that are willing to use the power of the state to impose enormous restrictions on the rights and the comforts of, and incomes of individuals who serve essentially a paranoia, a phobia, that has very little fact evidence in fact. Now these are observations that are popular to make because right now its almost taken as an article of faith that this crisis is real. [Video here]