Toyota Sheds Only UAW Plant - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

The problem? “Neither NUMMI’s labor costs nor business conditions are competitive,” reads NUMMI’s own statement.

That’s shorthand for the fact that NUMMI is Toyota’s only unionized plant in the U.S. — and that California’s energy and regulatory costs (envied by the Obama administration as a national model, natch) make it prohibitively expensive to make cars — even in Toyota’s largest U.S. market.

How ENSO Influences Itself (Video) « Climate Change

In an attempt to better understand climate change in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, I have begun to make videos like the one I will present here, which documents sea surface temperature (SST) in the North Pacific. Each graph in the video is a SST time series of a segment of ocean 2 degrees wide, stretching from the equator to 60N (or wherever that segment hits land). As the movie progresses, the graphs move Eastward.

GE’s ‘net-zero energy home’ scam « Green Hell Blog

Beware: green or clean energy — whatever you want to call it — is the new snake oil. It’s sad that the only sort of energy innovation occurring today is based more on financial shenanigans (cost-shifting, subsidies and worse) than technologies to produce more energy at less cost.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Swedish PM sounds climate alarm

Swedish PM Fredrik Reinfeldt was briefing the European Parliament on his country's priorities as the new holder of the six-month EU presidency.

"I want to write the story of how the climate threat was averted, together with you," he told newly-elected MEPs.