DWP rates may rise between 8% and 28% to pay for mayor's green initiatives - latimes.com

The hike would pay for more aggressive conservation programs and a solar plan designed to create 16,000 jobs as well as cover the fluctuating price of coal and natural gas.
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Appearing with labor and environmental leaders, Villaraigosa said the proposed increases would ensure that the DWP meets his goal of securing 20% of its energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar by Dec. 31.

The increased revenue would help pay for new environmental initiatives, including more aggressive conservation programs and a solar initiative designed to create 16,000 jobs.

But it also would address the DWP's failure to collect enough money to cover the cost of existing renewable energy initiatives and the fluctuating price of coal and natural gas, utility officials said.
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Once all the increases are in place, the DWP will receive an additional $648 million per year.

Villaraigosa said the money would help pay for the hiring of "green doctors" to evaluate the energy efficiency of homes and stepped-up efforts to help residents obtain energy-efficient lightbulbs and refrigerators.

One union leader said residents would support the increases once they knew how the money would be spent.

The Sun is Undergoing a State Change by James A. Marusek | Solar Cycle 25

We are at the verge of the next sunspot cycle, Solar Cycle 24. How intense will this cycle be? Why is this question important? Because there are “Danger Signposts” ahead!

The Carbon Come Kleptocracy Is Nervous « SOYLENT GREEN

Well, well. They showed their asses to the world in Jokenhagen, so it’s not entirely unexpected that they wouldn’t wait for Mexico. The UN Global Government/Carbon Thieves are holding an “emergency” meeting to again lull elitist fools like Obama, Rudd and Brown into letting them wrest sovereign control those pesky nations like the U.S. that still prefer to elect their crooks.

Of course, Christopher Lord Monckton is on it like a flamethrower on a nest of zombies. I love the smell of AGW FAIL in the morning.

UN chief wants UN in charge of climate talks - Taiwan News Online

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday the United Nations will remain in charge of talks on a new global climate change accord, dismissing a shift to negotiations with a streamlined group of countries suggested by U.N. climate envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland.

Ban said the former Norwegian prime minister's statement that talks will move to "a double track system" was "not desirable at this time."

"That I regard as her personal view," he said, stressing that a new climate change agreement should be negotiated within the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Global warming causes acne | Worth Reading

...the way his cockamamie theory is constructed, anything that happens anywhere fits the model; confirmation even comes when warmists’ predictions are spectacularly wrong. To be sure, we got a lot of rain over the weekend, but was the storm all that unusual? No, we’ve seen worse many times, and that’s the point. What happened over the weekend was weather, not climate.

Aside: Months ago, Rep. Chris Murphy, a priest in the Church of St. Al, told us the proof of global warming is not in meteorological anomalies, but in long-range trends. (He was incredulous when we pointed out the inconvenient truth that the world has been cooling since 1998.) But now his patron saint says a three-day rain on a fraction of the earth’s surface proves the theory.

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : James Lovelock as Climate Skeptic

The sun rose in the West. Nancy Pelosi endorsed Glen Beck for president. Barack Obama joined the tea party movement.

James Lovelock praised climate skeptics.

The Associated Press: Lance Mackey wins Iditarod for 4th straight time

This year's Iditarod was marked by bitter cold that plunged to 30 below, further chilled by powerful winds in sections of the trail. Mackey, whose cancer treatments left him with circulation problems, complained the cold was affecting his hands and feet.

Climate doubt begins to grow in Labor Party - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - Political - Stock & Land

IT SEEMS not just the Opposition is home to climate sceptics, with the chairman of a Government committee investigating ways to help farmers adapt to climate change admitting he is unsure of the science surrounding global warming.

Aussie businesses lose $3.5m to green scammers

Environmentally conscious businesses are being scammed by a false carbon credit investment fund named WesternField Holdings, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

ACCC deputy chairman, Peter Kell, said the scam may cost local businesses $3.5 million and warned more losses are expected due to its sophistication and targeting of green-friendly companies.