South Africa is becoming a high-carbon zone to attract foreign investment | Joss Garman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Recognising that a tonne of CO2 from a South African coal plant is just as damaging as a tonne from anywhere else, the White House has signalled they won't offer their support to subsidise the Eksom mega-coal plant in South Africa when it comes up for a vote at the World Bank next week.

Graham: Senate should go further on drilling, eye Pacific Coast development - The Hill's E2-Wire

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) – a key architect of upcoming Senate energy legislation – said Wednesday that lawmakers should widen President Obama’s newly announced expansion of offshore oil-and-gas drilling.

EU Referendum: Accentuate the positive

The scale of this theft is astronomical. For twelve years of the scheme's operation, enough money will have been extracted from electricity consumers to have completely renewed the entire generating infrastructure, installing 100GW of reliable capacity.

But nothing of that must be conveyed to the public. We pay through the nose and are not even allowed by the BBC to know how much, its only concession to "impartiality" being to offer a helpful link to the Friends of the Earth website.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: "Fabrication" or "Lie" in the IPCC AR4 WGI

[McKitrick] The public seems to believe that climatology is beset with cliquish gatekeeping, wagon-circling, biased peer-review, faulty data and statistical incompetence. In response to these perceptions, some scientists are casting around, in op-eds and weblogs, for ideas on how to hit back at their critics. I would like to suggest that the climate science community consider instead whether the public might actually have a point.