RealClimate's Gavin Schmidt: Sea ice minimum forecasts

What was unexpected was not the long term decline of summer ice (this has long been a robust prediction), but the size of 2007 and 2008 decreases which were much larger than any model had hinted at.
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Exceptional patterns of winds are always going to be the proximate cause of any extreme ice extent, but the regime provides a background upon which those patterns act.

Gavin Schmidt: Information from Answers.com

He was educated at Corsham Comprehensive School, earned a BA (Hons) in Mathematics at Jesus College, Oxford University, and was granted a PhD in Applied Mathematics at University College London.

[In retrospect, it was probably a good idea not to bulldoze all of our oil refineries back in 2007]: BP Gives up on Jatropha for Biofuel - Environmental Capital - WSJ

BP has indeed given up on jatropha, the shrub once touted [in the WSJ, less than two years ago] as the great hope for biofuels, and walked away from its jatropha joint venture for less than $1 million.

[But at least it'll make the weather better]: All Austinites may soon shoulder extra green energy costs

Austin's electric utility could soon reverse a long-standing practice of selling wind, solar and other renewable energy only to customers who choose to buy it, four Austin City Council members and a mayoral aide said this week.

The council's ambitious goal of getting 30 percent of the city's electricity from renewable sources by 2020 could be in jeopardy if Austin Energy relies exclusively on its landmark GreenChoice program, which offers wind-generated power at a cost that recently spiked to more than 50 percent higher than that of the standard electricity generated by fossil fuels.