81 months and counting … | Andrew Simms | guardian.co.uk

With a few important exceptions, the media swallowed spin and insinuation from peddlers of doubt about its seriousness, without ever holding them to remotely the same standard of evidence demanded of climate scientists.
...we maybe in the last hurrah of the sceptics, and closer to a positive tipping point in attitude than it seems.

Slate wants your best ideas for how to live a cheaper, more energy-efficient life. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine

...an economic consensus is emerging that America can raise its national operating income by focusing on energy efficiency and alternative energy—and that doing so would create jobs, improve the health of the planet, and free us from the tyranny of foreign oil producers.

[Remember Carter's energy promises?]

"I am tonight setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States," Carter said on July 15, 1979. "Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 -- never. From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation. The generation-long growth in our dependence on foreign oil will be stopped dead in its tracks right now and then reversed as we move through the 1980s..." In addition, we needed to immediately begin to develop a long-range strategy to move beyond fossil fuel.

Therefore, Carter said, "I will soon submit legislation to Congress calling for the creation of this nation's first solar bank, which will help us achieve the crucial goal of 20 percent of our energy coming from solar power by the year 2000."

Is it time to generate your own domestic power? | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

It would appear that now is possibly the best time ever to consider installing some form of domestic microgeneration, be it solar photovoltaic panels for electricity, solar thermal energy for hot water or even wind turbines in some circumstances.

Useless wind turbines subsidised by green grants

The UK Government’s energy conservation watchdog has admitted that consumers were duped by inappropriate grants into buying wind turbines that never stood a chance of working properly.

Gore, the greens and a pimped-out panic | spiked

Al Gore now says the Himalayan glaciers story was just ‘one small error’. In fact, it was every green’s trump card.