Lester Brown Upbeat About U.S. Carbon Decline | Miller-McCune Online Magazine

Worldwatch founder Lester Brown, long known for dire prognosis, reports cheerful climate and energy news for United States.

Six Georgia Congressmen Challenge Greenhouse Regulations - 11Alive.com | WXIA | Atlanta, GA

"The scientific basis for the EPA endangerment finding is flawed, based on questionable and potentially fraudulent data, and certainly does not rise to the level of certainty necessary to upend the American economy, toss millions out of work, and which promises little or no climate change benefit over the next half-century," said Shannon Goessling, the group's executive director and chief legal counsel. "Using the Clean Air Act as a weapon and a shield does not justify the bigger agenda of command-and-control."

BBC - Andrew Neil's blog: It's going to be a cold 2010

As much of the country braces itself for further snow falls and freezing temperatures word reaches me from several US forecasters that the whole of the Northern Hemisphere is in for a very cold start to 2010. Apparently there's been a strong downspike in something called the Arctic Oscillation Index and the North Atlantic Oscillation Index is also strongly negative.
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But if January turns out to be as cold or colder than December then the Met Office will have some explaining to do: after its forecast that we were in for a BBQ summer in 2009 (yes, I missed it too) if it can't get its winter forecast broadly right, why should we believe its forecasts for 2020 or 2050?

Fireplace fascism in California | Washington Examiner

Burn wood in the Bay Area, and your neighbors will rat you out and send inspectors to your door who will slap you with a fine. Even on Christmas Day.

2010 - The beginning of the end for green businesses - 31 Dec 2009 - BusinessGreen.com

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, it is currently looking just about odds on that President Obama will win his tussle with the Senate and get a US climate bill passed at some point during the first few months of the year.
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But the next 12 months will fire the starting pistol on a decade which, if the pace of technical development continues to accelerate at its current rate, will ensure that the concept of a green business becomes meaningless. Not because they start to disappear, but because with lower carbon businesses dominating the mainstream virtually all businesses will be striving to be as green as possible.