[If you buy this cell phone, will the weather really improve?] | Boosh Articles

One of the key elements of this handset is its solar panel. The panel is located at the back of the phone and provides the ability to charge the battery without the need for any electrical socket. In addition, the handset itself is made from eco-friendly materials. With concerns regarding climate change and the ecosystem in general, Samsung have endeavoured to introduce a handset which is ecologically innovative in nature.

EU Referendum: Now they tell us

The roads are going to be icy, warns the Met Office. This is "nowcasting", not forecasting, as Joe Bastardi would say. And we need to pay these goons £170 million a year to tell us that?

Australia: Reconsider carbon plan, says adviser

ONE of the Government's key business advisers on the emissions trading scheme has called for a fresh look at whether the plan should go ahead.

Dick Warburton, chairman of the panel set up last year to advise on emissions-intensive trade-exposed activities, said that after Copenhagen's failure, the matter should be debated afresh.

Unpublished reader letters to The Oregonian newspaper | The SPPI Blog

[SPPI note: If you have sent a letter to the editor of a newspaper and it has been ignored, we might consider posting it. You must send the full name of the newspaper, the date you sent it and your name and town.]

Climate Misinformation and Contradictions Continue: Tim Ball

Because the world is cooling due to changes in the sun the dome is larger and the mean winter position of the Polar Front is closer to the equator and the cold air masses are more intense. This combination increases the amplitude of the Waves so we saw the cold pushing down into Florida. It also means the severe storms that track along the Polar Front migrate much further south bringing snow to Texas and the Carolinas. The warm air it is pushing holds more moisture therefore record snowfall results.
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Over the next week or so we will see the cold air move east over the Atlantic and much warmer air will push in from the west even challenging some records. This will cause alarmists and numbskulls like the UKMO to claim warming has returned.

Reid aide: Carbon pollution cap remains in 2010 mix « Climate Progress

“We intend to consider comprehensive clean energy-climate legislation that will cap global warming pollution and create jobs,” said Regan Lachapelle, a spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), on Wednesday.

Prospects Fading for U.S. Climate [Hoax] Legislation in 2010 - Renewable Energy World

“It looks less and less likely that Congress will pass a broad climate bill. Lawmakers are now talking about individual bills focused just on one issue,” says Chris Stimpson, Executive Campaigner for Solar Nation, a grassroots lobbying organization run by the American Solar Energy Society.

Forget Wind. Pickens Focuses New Ads on Natural Gas. - NYTimes.com

DALLAS — Arabic script is about to appear on television sets across the country, with the Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens helpfully reading an English translation.

“Go back to sleep, America; the oil crisis is over,” Mr. Pickens intones, deadpan, in the new video. Seductive Middle Eastern music plays in the background.
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The man who made much of his fortune on oil, then in recent years turned to wind power, is now underplaying wind as a possible solution, while continuing to promote natural gas.

Can you just "forget wind" right after you've paid massive amounts of money to ruin the scenery with large numbers of huge metallic structures?