Vail's Greener Pastures: Do you believe in climate change? | VailDaily.com

Regardless of what you call it — climate crisis, climate change or global warming ± my belief is based on the idea of cause and effect. It's impossible for us to pollute the air, dirty the water and destroy the land without some kind of negative effect. How that negative effect unfolds, in my belief, is just speculation. Who can really know? But who wants to find out? Not me. I'm going to do all I can now to lessen the cause to lessen the effect and hopefully dodge a climate crisis.

Global Warming Hysteria: Al Gore Still Haughty and Hysterical » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Global warming is only seen as an important issue by about 28% of the American people. Gore and his co-believers are losing the debate. That’s not gridlock, that’s democratic guidance.
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Do we need to transition to cleaner, more efficient and renewable sources of energy? Of course, just as we transitioned from horse and buggy to automobile. It will be progress. What we don’t need is hysteria and a handover of freedom to technocrats out of the Al Gore School. What we don’t need is to dismantle the very prosperity that will result ultimately in the transition that Gore wants.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Two IPCC SREX Authors Discuss Inclusiveness

One of the report's lead authors, Sabrina McCormick, responds to Revkin and justifies the IPCC's empanelment decisions on her blog as follows:

The IPCC is not meant to be a reflection of the work and perceptions of the same scientists year after year. It is a living, breathing entity whose strength is partially derived from the new talent that is represented across disciplines and generations of researchers. One essential piece of that is drawing from a pool of researchers who are not all old white men or from particular disciplines. So, if certain stalwart scientists are passed up because there are new views on critical subjects, so be it. I respect their work and the many years they have devoted to this subject. Such contributions are not to be denied. However, neither are the bright, new ideas of scientists not traditionally involved in the IPCC, like sociologists such as myself. Maybe we have the answers to solve the most pressing problem of our time.

Running out of juice: Bay Area electric car dealerships close - San Jose Mercury News

A number of dealerships, including Zap of Concord, Davis Electric Cars in Davis and EcoMotors in Santa Rosa, appear to have closed within the last two years or so. Ethical Approach Electric Vehicle Center of San Jose has given up selling electric cars and switched to electric off-road vehicles. ELV Motors, in Santa Clara, now markets electric bikes and motor scooters to the public and sells electric car and truck fleets to campuses, corporations and cities.

The phenomenon extends to dealers of conventional brands who offer electric cars on the side. Anthony Batarse, head of the otherwise-thriving Lloyd Wise dealership in Oakland, purchased 10 electric cars in 2008, sold only three and ceased selling the cars.
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The cars' own drawbacks are part of the problem. Unlike the soon-to-be-released, freeway-ready Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf, most of the electric cars currently for sale are low-speed neighborhood electric vehicles.

Neither the Toronto-made Zenn or Santa Rosa-based Zap, the two electric cars most commonly sold in the Bay Area, go very far without a charge. The Zenn, which sells for around $15,000, can't go more than 25 mph; the Zap, which costs around $10,000, 35 mph.