Fears for poor as power bills soar in winter | Stuff.co.nz

Growing numbers of Christchurch people are struggling to pay power bills, and welfare groups fear a harsh winter will push more households into "fuel poverty".

Dear Vinod Khosla & Tom Friedman: No amount of sequestration will make coal “clean” | Grist

Coal trains also lock up most of the country's rail infrastructure, which could otherwise be used for low-carbon freight shipping.

Twitter / Andy Revkin

@drgrist Aren't realclimate.org, climatepolicy.org, skepticalscience.com constructive? Direct engagement amid shrinking specialty media.

Global Warming can burn your fingers | CLIMATEGATE

Here’s another bit of EU-sponsored propaganda, starring Mads Mikkelsen (the guy with the bleeding eye in Casino Royale, remember?).

[Earth to Revkin: Maybe solar radiation DOES affect temperature on Earth?] | Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists

We have just barely over two weeks until the sun sets and temperatures are already starting to drop quickly. The day of station closing, temperatures were around -40F. Today it is the coldest since I’ve been here at -63F, and tomorrow it’s suppose to bottom out at almost -70F. It’s amazing how quickly it drops when that sun gets low.
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Incoming solar radiation is the backbone of what drives our climate. Changes in the amount of radiation reaching the earth from the sun can be the difference between being in an ice age or not.