White roofs don't work in Winnipeg - Winnipeg Free Press

Currently, the Cool Roof Rating Council acknowledges a "winter penalty" when cool roofs are installed in northern climates, which means these regions will not affect the energy savings as warmer regions do. But even that penalty is limited to winter months, and does not consider the impact of autumn and spring conditions in those climates.

For example, Winnipeg averaged 5,777 heating degree days per year, compared to 186 cooling degree days, from 1971 to 2000, according to data from Environment Canada...

That means the demand for heating buildings is 30 times greater in Manitoba than the demand for cooling them. That also means that any benefit found from decreased use of air conditioners in the summer would be next to meaningless compared to the ongoing demand to heat buildings in the rest of the year.

This doesn't even consider the fact that the only way to get the benefits of white roofs is if they stay white. It also doesn't consider that additional research by the Berkeley Laboratory found that roofs play a much more significant role in the heating of a building as compared to cooling it.

American Thinker Blog: Commerce Secretary Gary Locke is an idiot

This is actually in keeping with what Al Gore and other global warming advocates have been saying for years; that it doesn't matter if China and India don't sign climate change treaties because our selfless example of ruining our economies will shame both nations into cutting their own emissions. And one way to teach those nations how to behave like responsible citizens is by charging a premium for Chinese goods (paid for by tax dollars).

"Kowtow" is the perfect Chinese word to describe the groveling Locke and others in the climate change lobby perform when it comes to dealing with Beijing on global warming.

Hillary Clinton, Indian Official Clash Over Climate Change [Scam] Efforts

Clinton said that Ramesh had presented a "fair argument." But she also said that India's case "loses force" because the fast-growing country's absolute level of carbon emissions – as opposed to the per capita amount – is "going up, and dramatically."

BBC - Climate Change: The Blog of Bloom: Will climate change disorientate fish?

Humans are regularly lost at sea but what about fish? New research suggests that climate change could disorientate fish by enlarging their ear bones, which they use to navigate.