Venezuela begins 2010 with electricity rationing

In 2009 there were four nationwide blackouts, with daily failures common in several cities.

C3: Climategate: There Is A Breakout From The Prison of IPCC Climate-Change Lies; Truth & Knowldege Make Escape

Climategate has exposed the attack on fundamental scientific principles by the heavily politicized IPCC and overly funded climate research communities. Their political objective was to "prove" that human CO2 was causing global warming, which would result in catastrophic calamities that only an international, "well respected" body of politicians (like we saw at Copenhagen) could solve.

MAYOR BLOOMBERG DELIVERS 2010 INAUGURAL ADDRESS

"Even as we face difficult fiscal realities, we will budget not only with our heads but with our hearts. We will find innovative new ways to create jobs in the industries of the future, from bioscience and arts and culture, to green technology that fights global warming and local asthma at the same time.

EUAs up 6% on cold snap, low energy supply - News - Point Carbon

Cold weather across Europe and slumping energy supply pushed EU carbon 6 per cent higher today.

James Hansen says goodbye to "scientific reticence" : The Island of Doubt

To get a runaway greenhouse effect, in which positive feedbacks push the planet into a new equilibrium that is incompatible with life, Hansen invokes the specter of billions of tonnes of frozen methane hydrates at the bottom of the ocean finding their way into the atmosphere. He concedes there aren't a lot of data to support the hypothesis that we're on the verge of triggering such an eventuality. But to Hansen, the threat is real enough that we should be scared. Very very scared.

I suspect many climatologists -- not to mention the climate change deniers and pseudoskeptics -- will dismiss all that as over the top and yet more proof that Hansen has lost touch with reality.

EU Referendum: A monument to folly

This time last year we were remarking on a not uncommon phenomenon in the UK – an almost total lack of wind. And here we are again, with the temperatures struggling to get above freezing and we have, effectively, a zero wind state - see below right.
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Wind, in all its glory, managed to deliver a risible 0.4 percent – which is hardly even a rounding error and amounts to an insignificant contribution to the national electricity supply. Producing a mere 163 MW at around midnight last night, against an installed capacity of just over 4 GW, that represents a load factor of four percent.

[But what does Lady Gaga think?: Bono weighs in] - Ten for the Next Ten - NYTimes.com

One smart suggestion I’ve heard, sort of a riff on cap-and-trade, is that each person has an equal right to pollute and that there might somehow be a way to monetize this. By this accounting, your average Ethiopian can sell her underpolluting ways (people in Ethiopia emit about 0.1 ton of carbon a year) to the average American (about 20 tons a year) and use the proceeds to deal with the effects of climate change (like drought), educate her kids and send them to university. (Trust in capitalism — we’ll find a way.) As a mild green, I like the idea, though it’s controversial in militant, khaki-green quarters. And yes, real economists would prefer to tax carbon at the source, but so far the political will is not there. If it were me, I’d close the deal before the rising nations want it backdated.

The best news on climate change for months. Maybe. | Climate and resource scarcity | Global Dashboard

Love him or hate him, Bono’s one of the few people that can take a radical, very far-reaching idea like equal shares to the atmosphere as the foundation for a global deal on climate and just mainstream it – with the UN Secretary-General, with the World Economic Forum, with the Pope, whoever. Which bring me to the third reason why this is a big deal. Not only can Bono and the ONE Campaign pitch this idea to Ban Ki-moon, WEF or Benedict XVI. He can pitch it to the most important group of all right now: G77 leaders.