‘The Worst Car on the Road’ - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

One again, Friend goes to the other experts: “None of the auto executives I spoke with expressed any inclination to build their cars to suit Better Place. . . . Herbert Kohler at German automaker Daimler Benz, said tartly, ‘a standardized battery would have to result from a standardized car, and a standardized car didn’t work under socialism in East Germany.’”

Ouch. No one disputes the genius of EV technology. But the question always is, compared to what? The gas engine is one tough competitor.

Nomads to make a comeback under climate change

“We need to re-learn that spirit of co-operation which some of the old nomadic societies still practice – and we need to understand how fragmenting the rangelands leads to their destruction through the economic imperative to get as much as you can from a limited area of land in a highly erratic climate,” he says.

The need is all the more urgent because of the vast extent of the rangelands and their ability to play a vital role in overcoming climate change by locking up large amounts of carbon.

Murray chief goes against the climate [fraud] flow

EXTREME climate patterns that have parched south-eastern Australia in recent years will not prove to be the new norm, according to the man in charge of reforming the Murray-Darling river system.