[Not so smart]: Xcel "smart" grid costs blow up, PUC orders more transparency - Boulder Daily Camera

Xcel Energy has begun charging customers across the state to recoup some of the skyrocketing costs the company has incurred building its smart grid project in Boulder.
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When Boulder was chosen for the smart grid project in March 2008, Xcel Energy projected that capital expenditures for the SmartGridCity would be about $15.3 million. By May 2009, Xcel had changed its projected cost to $27.9 million, and now the company believes the total bill will reach $42.1 million, not including the costs of operating and maintaining the new grid.

Laughable: RealClimate's page of global warming resources claims: 'You can’t do better than the IPCC reports themselves' | GORE LIED

Um, it might be time for the Hockey Team to edit that page a bit.

Flashback: what Gore's useful idiot Ed Begley Jr doesn't get about the 'peer review' process – Telegraph Blogs

Anyway, the reason I show you that first footage from Fox News – apart from the fact that it’s funny – is to show you an example of how obsessed Warmists are with the notion of “Peer review.” Note how Ed repeats it, mantra-like, to ward off any possible suggestion that the scientists supporting his bomb-the-global-economy-back-to-the-stone-age cause might be wrong. How can they be? They’re peer-reviewed-peer-reviewed-peer-reviewed.  [or not]

Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent

ExxonMobil cash supported concerted campaign to undermine case for man-made warming
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An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man-made global warming, environment experts claimed last night.

On my site's blogroll, which of the blogs are run by people funded by ExxonMobil?