Smart Grid Passion–On Your Dime (Part II) — MasterResource

In Part I earlier this week at MasterResource, I asked critics for corrections to the surprisingly weak figures on avoided investment that smart grid advocates use to push their program. Having gotten none, let’s see where the figures take us.

Car giants giving false hope of emission-free future, report says - Times Online

The University of Oxford study, edited by Sir David King [but he's not even a trained expert in car design!], the Government’s former chief scientific adviser, found that the most effective way of reducing overall emissions from motoring would be a “drastic downscaling of both size and weight” of conventional petrol and diesel cars.

Flashback: Chief scientist in sports cars warning to women - Telegraph

Professor Sir David King said governments could only do so much to control greenhouse gas emissions and it was time for a cultural change among the British public.

And he singled out women who find supercar drivers "sexy", adding that they should divert their affections to men who live more environmentally-friendly lives.

Flashback: Why Antarctica will soon be the only place to live - literally - Environment - The Independent

Antarctica is likely to be the world's only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remains unchecked, the Government's chief scientist, Professor Sir David King, said last week.