WNYC - The Brian Lehrer Show: SOTU Follow-up: Energy Policy (January 28, 2010)

Senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and founder of the blog ClimateProgress.org Joseph Romm; and David Kreutzer, Senior Policy Analyst in Energy Economics and Climate Change at the Heritage Foundation, discuss the energy and climate elements of last night's State of the Union address, from nuclear to offshore to cap and trade.

As carmakers plug 'green,' Washington Auto Show consumers have plenty of questions - washingtonpost.com

The unmistakable message is that the day of the electric and hybrid car is at hand. But it's also clear that there are plenty of questions among the crowd about how this alternatively fueled world is supposed to work.

"What if you're driving and you don't have any power left?" asks John Wu, who is checking out the Chevy Volt with some friends. "Won't you just be stuck there?" The guys make cracks about Volt drivers running low on juice and pulling up to a stranger's house, begging for access to an outlet.

[In an attempt to improve the weather, let's burn more trees] - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Coal-powered generating stations retrofitted to run on a mixture of coal and dried wood pellets can produce cost-competitive, emission-reduced electricity even without the advent of a cap-and-trade system, according to a new biomass life cycle analysis published in the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology.

Climate Observations: PRELIMINARY January 2010 SST Anomaly Update

Monthly NINO3.4 SST anomalies appear to have peaked in December. SST anomalies have dropped 0.23 deg C over the past month.