How much warming? | The Australian

PROFESSOR Neville Nicholls tells us that global temperatures have risen inexorably since 1970 (Letters, 14/7). It is also true that they must have risen inexorably from one decade to the next over much of the time since the Little Ice Age of the 17th and 18th centuries (and, of course, for successive decades as the Earth has emerged from past ice ages).

But do climate scientists have a generally accepted explanation(s) for these earlier periods of risintemperatures, including reliable scientific explanations for the beginning and ending of past warming and cooling periods?

New York Revs Up for Plug-Ins - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

New York City has just unveiled the first of about 100 electric vehicle charging stations to be installed under a national program that aims to have nine metropolitan regions ready when automakers begin rolling out some electric vehicles later this year.

The public car-charging station, at an Edison Properties parking facility on Ninth Avenue between 35th and 36th Streets in Manhattan, is part of ChargePoint America, a federally sponsored program that promotes the quick adoption of electric cars to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create jobs. The program envisions 4,600 public and home charging stations around the country by October 2011.
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Richard Lowenthal, chief executive officer of Coulumb Technologies, the company installing the chargers, said the stations accept credit cards just as a gas pump does. But it can take one to four hours to charge a car, he said.

“For every hour you get about 30 miles,” he said. “The expectation is that you leave your car there when you go to work, or overnight.”

Coalition to combat climate change? | Ekklesia

2. Why do you personally think climate change is such a crucial issue?

[energy and climate change Chris Huhne] It is the most important issue facing society. Uncontrolled climatic change has the potential to make the planet uninhabitable for humans.