Taking Measure of Biofuel Limits « Climate Sanity

Let’s face it – this ambitious goal of 144 billion liters of ethanol per year from biofuels is a very bad idea. Our most precious resources are the land, water and resources for making fertilizer (which is primarily natural gas for nitrogen fertilizers). The dumbest thing we can do is deplete our soil and aquifers, pollute our water with extra nitrogen fertilizer, and waste our natural gas to make ethanol. If you think living with a shortage of gasoline is rough, try living with a shortage of food.

American Thinker: Obama and the Last Hurrah of Liberalism

President Obama has championed "health care reform" and a "carbon tax" in an attempt to control the day-to-day lives of the American people. There are now 32 advisors (czars), to the President, most being left-wing ideologues, with the power to implement his agenda, none of whom have been approved by the Senate.

SurvivaBall [complete with Halliburton logo!]: Your individual climate-change adaptation strategy | Grist

Specially designed to enable its wearer to withstand months of drought, fierce hurricanes, and catastrophic floods (it floats on water!), the SurvivaBall makes it unnecessary to transition to a low-carbon economy or finance adaptation for the world’s poor.

Peruvian glacial retreats linked to European events of Little Ice Age

Licciardi and his colleagues will continue working in Peru toward a more complete understanding of glacial expansion during the Little Ice Age - and their subsequent retreat. "Our new results point to likely climate processes that can explain why these glaciers expanded and retreated when they did, but there are still many open questions," he says. "For example, what's the relative importance of temperature change versus precipitation change on the health of these glaciers?" The research team plans to explore this question using coupled climate-glacier models that evaluate the sensitivity of glaciers in southern Peru to the two main factors that drive glacier expansion - cold temperatures and abundant snowfall.

[Also, why is the formerly mile-thick Chicago glacier so unhealthy right now?]

When the glacier reached its southernmost limit about 20,000 years ago, the ice was a mile thick at Chicago--an enormous weight that depressed the land beneath.