Hybrid Plant Shelved in California - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

The facility would produce electricity from a solar field by day and burn biomass collected from area farms by night.
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At a public hearing in April 2009, a Martifer representative said the company expected to pick up 450,000 tons a year of prunings, clippings and other agricultural waste within 70 miles of the power plant.

But from the start, some residents objected to the project’s need to truck in daily supplies of biomass and the resulting pollution in a region with some of the worst air quality in the nation.

“This easily comes to 60, 70, 80 trucks per day delivering biomass to this site, and that’s going to contribute significantly to our air pollution problem,” Tom Frantz, an almond farmer, said at the 2009 hearing. “We can’t afford to have any added pollution in this valley.”

Predicting Wars Based On [trace amounts of natural atmospheric gas] – Really? « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

There is a remarkable recently NSF funded study that claims to be able predict the liklihood of wars based in part on multi-decadal climate change. Readers can assess from their own perspectives if this is appropriate as a scientifically testable study.

In my view, a significant portion of NSF funding is going to projects that involve predictions decades into the future, and this is just one example.

[Pure insanity]: Britain Curbing Airport Growth to Aid Climate - NYTimes.com

In a bold if lonely environmental stand, Britain’s coalition government has set out to curb the growth of what has been called “binge flying” by refusing to build new runways around London to accommodate more planes.