Sexy Coal Miners: Dumbest Ad Ever By An Energy Company? » INFRASTRUCTURIST

Then there’s message: “”Imagine if a 250-year supply of energy were right here at home. Now thanks to emissions reducing technology from GE, harnessing the power of coal is looking more beautiful every day.”

Horsepower Sure Beats Horses! (Part I: remembering what came before cars–and the failure of the electric vehicle) — MasterResource

The energy policy debate is well informed by history. So many ’silver bullets’ being proffered by the Obama Brain Trust (’smartest guys in the room’?) energy interventionists/transformationists are yesterday’s failures. As F. A. Hayek would put it, the Holdren-Chu approach to energy suffers from the ‘fatal conceit’ and cannot expect to be cost-effective solutions to the alleged problem.

Global warming may cause more hurricanes - UPI.com

MIAMI, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Scientists say the eastern Pacific El Nino, which can shield the United States from severe hurricane seasons, may be reduced in effectiveness by global warming.

Blood Rivalry Over Electric Cars Now Fueled by a Billion Taxpayer Dollars - Tesla Motors - Gawker

The government is now subsidizing both sides as they go head to head in the market for affordable electric-powered cars. Sure, one makes a plug-in hybrid and the other a pure electric, but the market for pricey, super-environmentally-friendly sedans is relatively small at this early stage. Not the best time to help the companies potentially undercut one another's profit margins. It would have been better to let Fisker get money from a government closer to where he'll be manufacturing the car, over in Finland.

Scott Dodd: Q&A: Ken Burns on Climate Change, Wolf Hunting and Why Yellowstone Isn't "Geyser World"

[Q] Are you concerned about the changes that global warming could bring to some of our national parks, such as Yellowstone, where scientists are worried that warmer temperatures could allow pine beetles to wipe out entire forests?

[A] Tremendously concerned. I had the privilege, if that's even the right word, to witness first hand the impact of those pine beetles at work in Yellowstone. And I dread the fact that my children or my grandchildren might one day go visit an exquisite national park in northwestern Montana, and it will be called, "The Park Formerly Known as Glacier."

[I wonder if Burns is depressed every time he visits Chicago, since the mile-thick glacier hasn't yet returned]

When the glacier reached its southernmost limit about 20,000 years ago, the ice was a mile thick at Chicago