Three Poles in 365 Days: Polar Explorer Plans Chilly [Fossil-fueled] Trip for Global Warming Awareness

A polar explorer named Eric Larsen is about to embark on an ambitious adventure that will bring him to the North Pole, South Pole, and summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, all within 365 days. The Save the Poles Expedition, as he's calling it, is designed to bring awareness to the problem of global warming by traveling to the most notorious frozen places on earth, reporting the latest climate data, and using the platform to advocate strategies for reducing carbon emissions.

EPA Calls Carbon a Dangerous Pollutant - WSJ.com

Turning the carbon screws on businesses so they lobby Congress for cap and trade.

El Nino portends cold winter for East Coast - USATODAY.com

The possibility of an extraordinarily cold winter is troubling to safety officials in the Northeast.

"The more snowfall we get, it does correlate to more accidents and cars off the road and people we assist off the highway," says Sgt. Ian Berkeley of the New Hampshire State Police. But "being a New Englander, we always expect the worse in the winter."

Nuclear Option: The Kerry-Boxer Bill and Nuclear Energy - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Still, nuclear power doesn’t seem to be a huge priority for the Obama administration. The president pointedly avoided any reference to nuclear energy in his big climate speech to the United Nations, in stark contrast to China’s president.

Another Radical Green Czar - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

[Carol] Browner is back in a key role for another Democratic administration. And last month, incredibly, she came to Michigan to tout “green” job growth as part of her campaign against global warming.

Not surprisingly, Michigan’s media saw no irony in Browner’s visit. But the ex-EPA chief — whom underlings once called “She Who Must Be Obeyed” — still has the same agenda as climate czar: Strangle American job producers.