Cancun climate talks hopeless: Goldstein | Lorrie Goldstein | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun

It’s time for Canada to emerge from the Kyoto stupor and take control of its own energy future

1000 Manhattans Per Day | Real Science

The summer melt season is over, and the Arctic is now gaining ice at a rate of 60,000 km² per day.

In more technical terms, that is 1,000 Manhattans per day, or 250 Petermann Glacier Ice Islands per day. You could also think of it as one new Manhattan of ice forming every minute and a half, or one new Petermann Ice Island every six minutes.

Mark Serreze at NSIDC wrote in 2008 : “As the climate warms, the summer melt season lengthens …”

In 2010, the Arctic sea ice extent maximum occurred on March 31, and the minimum occurred on September 18. That makes the 2010 melt season the shortest in the JAXA record, at 171 days.

Correlating Temperature With CO2 before and after the matter became politicized

Amazing difference between pre-"adjustment" and post-"adjustment" graphs in the comparator below. This is outright fraud -- JR

Critic’s Notebook - In Arabian Desert, a Sustainable City Rises - NYTimes.com

...With the help of environmental consultants, Mr. Foster’s team estimated that by combining such approaches, they could make Masdar feel as much as 70 degrees cooler. In so doing, they could more than halve the amount of electricity needed to run the city. Of the power that is used, 90 percent is expected to be solar, and the rest generated by incinerating waste (which produces far less carbon than piling it up in dumps). The city itself will be treated as a kind of continuing experiment, with researchers and engineers regularly analyzing its performance, fine-tuning as they go along.

But Mr. Foster’s most radical move was the way he dealt with one of the most vexing urban design challenges of the past century: what to do with the car. Not only did he close Masdar entirely to combustion-engine vehicles, he buried their replacement — his network of electric cars — underneath the city.