Robert Redford: It's the Opportunity, Stupid! [We can all get rich selling each other wind turbines!]

This was our moment to create two million clean energy jobs here in the United States. This was our moment to outpace China in the clean energy market that will dominate the 21st century. This was our time to slash our oil imports in half. This was our time to confront the perils of climate change, which despite head-in-the sand-denial, is in fact happening.
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The Republican Senate leadership has fought against every clean energy and climate measure simply because their political opponents were for it.

Carly Fiorina: A Global Warming Denier | Fog City Journal

Fiorina even had the audacity to suggest the science of global warming needs to be examined. What’s to examine when the overwhelming scientific consensus has concluded that global warming is happening and that it is induced by human activity?

By association, Fiorina has aligned herself with the global warming deniers, joining that eminent scientist Sarah Palin — one of her endorsers — who called global warming studies “snake oil science.”
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Denying global warming and its causes threatens all of humanity with slow, painful, untimely deaths. [from what, specifically?  Are we talking kidney stones here?]

[House insurers: Trace amounts of CO2 mean we're going to have to charge you a lot more for house insurance] | Business | The Guardian

Climate change will increase the risk of flooding in the UK, which could lead to dramatic rises in insurance premiums for homeowners and businesses and make some areas of the country uninsurable, the Association of British Insurers has warned.

UK electric car grant scheme 'cut by 80%' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Government commits to just £43m of the original £230m promised for programme to subsidise the uptake of electric cars

[Who's up for a $41k car that may use coal power for the first 40 miles, then gas for the next 340 miles?]: GM Volt's price induces some sticker shock

The long-anticipated Chevrolet Volt, General Motors' electric car, will cost $41,000, the company announced Tuesday, leaving consumers to decide whether its environmental appeal is worth a price far above that of similarly sized conventional autos.
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The Volt can travel 40 miles on its battery charge and an additional 340 miles on a gasoline-powered generator.