China Becomes World's Biggest Energy Consumer - WSJ.com

China is now the world's biggest energy consumer, knocking the U.S. off a perch it held for more than a century, according to new data from the International Energy Agency.

[So will alarmist Andy Revkin re-record his CO2 hoax song, replacing "American" with "Chinese" below?]

Liberated carbon, it'll turn your night to day.
Come on and liberate some carbon, babe, it's the American way."

EU Referendum: Still glaciers

Some glaciers expand, others retreat, for reasons we know not why. One thing about the Himalayan glaciers we do know is that they are not directly affected by global warming as these are high altitude glaciers, well above the permanent snow line and unaffected by small increases in temperature.

Glaciers, however, have that iconic character which means that the hard-core warmists cannot allow their status to be anything other than "under threat", and so we see yet again the spectre of retreating ice raised. There re-appearance, however, tells us nothing about climate but a great deal about the climate change industry. They are worried and while nothing very much is showing on the surface, as we all know, still glaciers run deep.

Shock News: RIP Stephen H. Schneider of Stanford University 1945-2010: 'Died of a heart attack today as a flight he was on was landing in London' | Climate Depot

Climate Depot's Morano statement: 'Though I have been very critical of Schneider's scientific methods and claims, my sympathies go out to his family and friends. Schneider was a passionate advocate for his beliefs.'