The Reference Frame: Overpopulated polar bears flood the Prague Castle

The polar bears urged Václav Klaus "to keep on campaigning against the myth of global warming." That much for the assumption that polar bears must automatically be alarmists. :-)

China Scaling Back Its Solar Plans - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

China is attempting to rein in overcapacity in the country's solar energy sector despite the government's ambitious goal to increase solar capacity from 50 megawatts in 2008 to between 10 and 20 gigawatts by 2020.

Morning Bell: The Transparent Costs of Cap and Trade » The Foundry

Let’s hope the Waxman-Markey questionnaire signals that a serious debate can now take place. American families deserve to be kept fully apprised of how Congress intends to act, and how those actions will most likely affect their pocketbooks, their jobs, and their lives.

Dalton Minimum Returns: Sunspots: End of Cycle 23/24 solar minimum?

The biggest sunspot of 2009 has emerged. Spot 1029 is crackling with Class B and C solar flares.

[Oh, the humanity]: Guest Weblog By Len Ornstein “How To Quickly Lower Climate Risks, At ‘Tolerable’ Costs?” « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

We begin with the harvest of fallen trees in the Amazon and Congo, probably using lighter-than-air-ships, like the Boeing SkyHook, to move the harvested logs to a nearest river, and then use river transport to coastal ports.