[Poll: French public turns against the planned carbon tax]

A poll released Wednesday showed that the public appeared to have turned against the planned tax. The survey by pollster ViaVoice showed 51 percent of the French thought the government should abandon it.

Iran in billion-euro gas deal with Germany - Yahoo! News

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran has signed a one-billion-euro (1.44-billion-dollar) deal with a German firm to build 100 gas turbo-compressors, an industry official said in newspapers on Wednesday.

Flashback: Pelosi on Natural Gas: Fossil Fuel or Not? - Washington Wire - WSJ

On NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the speaker twice seemed to suggest that natural gas – an energy source she favors – is not a fossil fuel.

“I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” she said at one point. Natural gas “is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels,” she said at another.

[Will this stunt convince people to shiver in the dark in an attempt to prevent bad weather?]: Meet the first team of people to ski all 30 countries in Europe to raise awareness about climate change

Rick - frustrated ex BMW test driver. Wants to go back to the Autobahn and let the wheels roll. He's also a sommelier. What a combo!

Jane - the supermodel. She sees the adventure as the perfect opportunity to get some publicity. Can't care less about the future of
the mountains.