Clean cold comfort

An Ottawa startup believes its 'tempered steam' de-icing system could save the air industry $800 million a year.
...By offering an alternative to the cost, delays and environmental consequences of using heated glycol to remove snow and ice from aircraft, Bourgault's goal is to carve out 30 per cent of the estimated $2 billion the air industry spends annually to make planes safe in cold weather.

Obama's Sunny View of Oil, Medicare and GM - Barrons.com

Take this tidbit plucked from an Aug. 4 White House blog post by Heather Zichal, deputy assistant to the president for energy and climate change: "Today a panel of government scientists released a report which said that the vast majority of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed, recovered from the wellhead or dispersed[,] much of which is in the process of being degraded. A significant amount of this is the direct result of the federal government's aggressive response to the spill." Superman had saved the day, so to speak.

Bizarrely, our fear of nuclear weapons has faded, and our interest in the Hiroshima anniversary has dwindled accordingly – Telegraph Blogs

Objectively, the threat of Armageddon is far higher today, when nuclear weapons have spread from the five postwar powers to Israel, North Korea, India and, soon perhaps, Iran. But, for whatever reason, our attention has wandered, and the disaster-scenario du jour is Global Warming.

Premiers differ on climate change

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach says he believes a cap-and-trade program is simply a wealth transfer to other provinces and countries that does little to reduce emissions.