FACTBOX-Key U.S. states, issues in climate bill fight

In testimony to a Senate panel in January 2007, [Blanche] Lincoln noted her past opposition to a climate bill but had come to believe that "we must take action" to control global warming.

One reason: She comes from a family of duck hunters and the birds might stop migrating as far south as Arkansas because of warmer temperatures in some Northern states. That, she said, could have a devastating impact on Arkansas' sportsmen and local economies.

San Francisco Plan Promotes Urban Wind Power - NYTimes.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- Mayor Gavin Newsom (D) unveiled plans yesterday for installing turbines on rooftops around the city, with a goal of commercializing small-scale wind power and bringing down the cost of renewable electricity.
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Blue Green Pacific's 150-pound rooftop turbine, which generates a maximum of half a kilowatt, is already at three sites here, including the San Francisco Zoo.

Yikes! My hair dryer uses HOW much electricity?

This week, I decided to try my hair dryer with the Kill a Watt, and holy cow. So my computer was drawing about 92 watts. My hair dryer on low used 402 watts. Switch it to high, and it goes to 1440 watts!

National Parks Threatened by Climate Change–And Nature Itself - Environmental Capital - WSJ

After a few decades’ respite, the lighthouse was again threatened, notes the National Park Service—not from man-made climate change, but from nature herself:

When completed in 1870, the Cape Hatteras lighthouse was located a safe 1,500 feet from the ocean. Even then, however, storm-driven tides completely washed over Hatteras Island, eroding sand from the ocean side of the island and depositing it on the sound side. By 1970, this process, which has caused the gradual westward migration of the Outer Banks for at least the past 10,000 years, left the lighthouse just 120 feet from the ocean’s edge and almost certain destruction.