The environMENTALIST contest: On what day will Obama sign the bipartisan climate and clean energy bill into law? « Climate Progress

Based on my conservations with Hill experts, I tend to think the bill will hit the Senate floor in late February and the debate will last for a few weeks until it passes in late March or early April. Then conference could take quite a while. Still, I think the pressure will be to wrap this up before the late summer recess, and not take this right before the fall election. I think Obama will sign the bipartisan climate and clean energy bill in early August, but I will say that at least one person with much more Hill experience than I have says it’ll be October.

Copenhagen climate change agreement is impossible - Telegraph

The new plan was put forward by Lars Lokke Rasmussen, the Danish Prime Minister, over breakfast at an Asia-Pacific summit.

He suggested world leaders agree a “political accord” to keep temperature rise below 2C. However it will not be until further UN meetings in Bonn in June and Mexico in December that the details of how this will be achieved will be decided.

Go Barefoot for Gaia

In the following BBC clip, lifted from today’s ephemera, the sculptor and artistic luminary Antony Gormley shares his wisdom on matters ecological. “Dispense with your socks,” says he. “This is a time of global warming. Through our feet we can begin to feel it.”

[I challenge Gormley to walk the streets of Fairbanks barefoot for a while this week, then tell us how much global warming he feels]: Forecast for Middle Tanana Valley

Thursday...Partly cloudy. Highs near 15 below.