YouTube - Frozen Wasteland

I saw "The Who" perform Baba O'Reily (AKA Teenage Wasteland) for the halftime show at the Superbowl and was inspired to do this parody in honor of the horrible winter we're having. It's called "Frozen Wasteland" and in it I try to recreate the synthesizer part on the banjo. The Viking hat is in honor of the Vikings' great season.

Vestas Earnings Shy of Projections for 2009 - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

As orders for 2010 slackened, the company also cut its forecast for 2010, projecting revenues of $9.6 billion, down from previous projections of up to $12 billion.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: MS-NBC’s Brewer claims heavy snowfall proves global warming

Usually, though, the rebuttal to DeMint’s jibe would be that skeptics don’t understand the difference between climate and weather. Funny, but that distinction seems to get lost among AGW hysterics when temperatures spike upwards in the summer, as they always do.

Rudd deceives student on IPCC | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Grilled by a sceptical student, Kevin Rudd defends the scandal-ridden IPCC as just a bunch of serious climate scientists:

The first thing I’d say is the IPCC - International Panel on Climate Change - scientists has 4000 essentially humourless scientists in white coats who go around and measure things and have been doing so for about 20 years. They reached a conclusion about, first of all, climate change happening and, second, the high likelihood, defined as 90 per cent plus, of it being caused by human activity sometime ago.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: Climate panel: Time for a refit?

If its projected ranges of temperature rise, sea level rise, rainfall change and so on do map out our planet's immediate future, then we need the best interpretations of impacts, costs and benefits - that's what the IPCC is for, and however it's constituted or whatever replaces it, it's vital that the organisation(s) performing that role must inspire trust among not only governments but the wider public.