Battle over climate change, immigration may split Dems - The Hill's E2-Wire

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) threat to abandon climate change talks over a separate spat on immigration reform may force Democrats to choose one constituency over another.

Vestas Has Surprise Loss as Credit Crunch Cuts Orders (Update2) - BusinessWeek

April 28 (Bloomberg) -- Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, reported an unexpected loss after tighter financing led customers to delay renewable- energy projects. The shares fell as much as 5.9 percent.

RealClimate: Claude Allègre: The Climate Imposter

The truly astonishing thing though is how hermetically sealed and impervious to fact Allègre’s whole argument is. No-one is honest, every result is fraudulent (excepting of course, Allègre’s ‘true curves’), no-one is without an agenda (except Allègre of course, and possibly Michael Crichton) and any scientist espousing the mainstream view or journalist questioning him is a Stalinist. Any contradiction of his arguments is simply proof that you are part of the conspiracy. It is this error that is the equivalent of ‘dividing by zero’ – once you have convinced yourself that only your own opinion matters, you can prove absolutely anything to your own satisfaction – but, unfortunately, to no-one else’s.

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Unusual Chill Sweeps Seoul Area; April Day Temperature Lowest in 102 Years

Graham: I'll Filibuster My Own Climate Bill Unless Reid Drops Immigration Altogether | TPMDC

Tonight, Graham told me that he will filibuster his own climate change bill, unless Reid drops all plans to turn to immigration this Congress.