Gore tells China and U.S. to Cooperate; World at Stake, Death, Destruction, Etc…

Not happy to be out of the news for longer than a few minutes, Gore belted out an eerily familiar speech at the U.S.-China Strategic Forum on Clean Energy Cooperation dinner. He used all the appropriate catchwords: threat, might, may, could, if, crucial, crisis, and of course, money. I'm sure there's a Gore-themed Mad Lib book already at the printers.
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Gore did not take questions from reporters.

BBC - Ethical Man blog: Climate conference 'set to fail'

Copenhagen will fail - it's official. At least that is what United Nations climate change chief Yvo de Boer told the Financial Times on Tuesday.
...the Ethical Man team is returning to the United States.

If Congress Screws Up Light Bulbs, What Will It Do to Health Care? » The Foundry

Why trust Congress with health care when it messes up simple things like light bulbs?

The new mandated light bulbs don’t save as promised; produce inferior quality light; and 90% of them are made abroad. The old ones were mostly made in America. The new law has led to General Electric’s August announcement that it was shutting down incandescent bulb factories in Kentucky, Ohio and Virginia.

America's dirty little secret - The Globe and Mail

There are several reasons for U.S. inaction – including ideology and scientific ignorance – but a lot comes down to one word: coal. No fewer than 25 states produce coal, which not only generates income, jobs and tax revenue, but provides a disproportionately large share of their energy.