How 7.4% of Americans can block humanity's efforts to save itself | David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts | guardian.co.uk

The absurd procedural chokepoints in the US Senate are what is really killing climate [fraud] legislation.

INTERVIEW-UPDATE 1-Exxon says winter demand won't trim oil glut By Reuters

Exxon, sceptical in the past about green energy and having supported research that questioned climate change, is now facing regulation from a controversial U.S. climate change bill that cleared its first hurdle in the U.S. Senate last week.

Tillerson said it would have a "dramatic" effect on U.S. oil refiners. According to research studies, about 10-15 percent of refining capacity would have to be shut down, leading to imbalances in U.S. refined product supplies, he added.

Meanwhile, carbon trading was not a workable solution, due to its high price volatility and the huge amount of red tape involved in overseeing the system, Tillerson said.

Chavez's Economic Problems Turn Nasty - Megan McArdle

For a long time I have been saying (along with a lot of other people), that Hugo Chavez was running his country into the ground. He diverted investment funds from PDVSA, Venezuela's state-run oil company, into social programs. As long as the price of oil kept rising, he could do that. Unfortunately, Venezuela's sour, heavy crude is particularly hard to get at and refine, and requires a high rate of investment in order to keep production up. As a result, the number of barrels per day (bpd) that Venezuela produces has declined pretty sharply since he took office in 1999.

Twitter / Andy Revkin: [Maybe it's OK to measure temperature near the Weber grills?]

Updated http://j.mp/ColdHot If Pat Michaels & NCAR agree on temp. patterns, does this challenge @wattasupwiththat on surface records? #eco