[Is burning manure a great way to improve the weather?] - POLITICO.com

Vilsack, the former governor of Iowa, says the initiative will also divert some of the cow pies to energy plants. Manure, it turns out, is a fairly promising biofuel.

"One 700-head herd herd could power 200 homes in America," Vilsack said.

Multiple benefits of manure: The key to maintenance of soil fertility and restoration of depleted sandy soils on African smallholder farms

 Manure is a key nutrient resource on smallholder farms in the tropics, especially on poorly buffered sandy soils, due to its multiple benefits for soil fertility. Farmers preferentially apply manure to fields closest to homesteads (homefields), which are more fertile than fields further away (outfields).

[Clueless] Arnold attacks Palin on global warming - Glenn Thrush - POLITICO.com

“You have to ask: what was she trying to accomplish?” said Mr Schwarzenegger. “Is she really interested in this subject or is she interested in her career and in winning the [Republican] nomination [for president]? You have to take all these things with a grain of salt.”

Denmark's paler shade of green - - POLITICO.com

In other words, Denmark, which has been self-sufficient in energy since 1997, can afford to subsidize big-ticket, clean-energy electric cars — and other such feel-good items — because it has grown rich on fossil fuels.

POLITICO Copenhagen Connection - POLITICO.com

OBAMA “EARLY” FRIDAY. Todd Stern, the top U.S. negotiator at the talks, said President Obama would touch down “Friday morning, reasonably early, but I don’t actually know the exact time.” Despite a series of Monday setbacks, he expressed hopes that POTUS would be spared heavy lifting:

“I think that the desire will be that nothing’s booted upstairs, because everything’s resolved by then.”