[We'll see]: Solar-powered boat Türanor raises hopes of a sun-fuelled future | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The £16m catamaran – chosen for its energy-saving ability to "slice" rather than "ride" through waves – will store energy in its batteries by day. It can run on its stored energy in the absence of sunlight for around three days at 7.5 knots, the speed of an average oil tanker. At slower speeds it could run for up to 15 days, according to its makers.
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The 34,000-mile journey will take the vessel across the Atlantic, the Panama Canal, the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean over a scheduled 160 days.

ESCAPING THE CLIMATE KNOWLEDGE CAGE by Will Alexander, S. African UN Scientist | Climate Realists

The World Bank's decision on South Africa's loan application for the construction of a large coal-fired power station is due by the end of this week. But I want to get in first!

Please read the attached memo on the climate knowledge cage. It goes to the heart of the climate change issue.

Greenpeace Report : Koch brothers and Exxon deserve medals | MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory

We have been awestruck by the audacity of the global warming scam. If taken to fruition, it will destroy freedom and democracy, devastate the economies of the modern world, and concentrate unimaginable power and wealth in the hands of a small international group of politically connected criminals.
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The battle must be fought and we must never surrender. If Charles and David Koch and ExxonMobil are playing even a fraction of the part in public education as Greenpeace claims, then we owe them our thanks. I urge you to write your congressperson today and recommend Congressional Gold Medals for the brothers and for ExxonMobil executives. Tell them it’s based on a Greenpeace report.

University of Alabama scientists study climate clues that could come from old shells | al.com

But from the evidence gathered it appears El Nino events became more frequent. At the same time, perhaps to cope with the adversity El Nino brought on, the small bands became knitted together into large scale civilizations featuring division of labor, large-scale pyramids and extensive trade networks.

"You had a major change in El Nino about five to 6,000 years ago, and then you had this huge fluorescence in civilization," Andrus says. "The question has long been, 'Is that just a coincidence, or is it linked?'"