Can Small Lifestyle Changes Lead to Huge CO2 Cuts? - The World Energy Technologies Summit - TIME

A couple of weeks ago President Barack Obama stopped by OPOWER, a small Arlington-based energy company, to talk about green jobs and clean power. The White House doesn't schedule just any company for a Presidential visit, so you might wonder why OPOWER made the cut.
...OPOWER's reports encourages its hundreds of thousands of customers — spread across the country — to cut back on needless energy waste, enough to reduce average household consumption of electricity by more than 2% annually.

Flashback: Obama Cranks Up White House Thermostat: "You Could Grow Orchids In There"

The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.

"He's from Hawaii, O.K.?" said Mr. Obama's senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. "He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there."

[Warmists in the Arctic: By the way, it's really REALLY cold up here]

Today was not the best of starts for a cook in the high Arctic. Having arrived at the mess tent I found Simon wrestling with our snow melter / heater which turned out to have gained some overnight ice in the wrong spot. He had been struggling to start it for one hour and then when we came to light the Coleman stove for breakfast water and food it too decided to go on a go-slow as it didn’t like the temperature of circa -35 degrees Celsius.
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I do not think I have been as cold at night before and the obligatory pee stop during in the small hours is truly memorable for all the wrong reasons.

[Warmists in the Arctic: Ice not frighteningly thin]

We then spent the next eight hours trying to dig a one metre square hole in the sea ice. This was quite a feat as the ice was 1.5 metres thick! This hole is vital for our research, and so we were all on a mission to get through to the sea beneath the ice.

Harald laboured hard with the drill whilst Ceri, Glenn, Helen and I used shovels and picks to clear the debris away. Almost as quickly as we dug the ice out, more water froze to take its place because the ambient air temperature on the surface was in the region of minus 35 degrees Celsius.