Czech president tells UN to stay out of economics | Reuters

The Czech president [Vaclav Klaus], a vocal skeptic of global warming, said the United Nations should also keep out of science, including climate change. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made fighting climate change one of his top priorities.

Heatwave In Russia : Snow Extent Well Above Normal | Real Science

We are three days into Autumn, and much of Russia is already covered with snow. More than half of Russia is running below freezing temperatures, as is Alaska and northern Canada.
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For some reason, the press doesn’t want to talk about Russian weather any more.

During the summer, they also ignored that fact that much of the country experienced near-record cold. Could it be that there is an agenda?

Tom Friedman [seems to believe that Moore's Law applies to batteries] - NYTimes.com

Sure, the Moore’s Law of electric cars — “the cost per mile of the electric car battery will be cut in half every 18 months” — will steadily drive the cost down, says Agassi, but only once we get scale production going.

Battery Technology and Moore's Law - Ultralife Batteries | Battery Trends / Outlook

Battery technology can not keep up with Moore’s Law in the same way semiconductors can. Batteries are miniature chemical engineering plants, producing electrons at the expense of electrochemical reactions with their own behavior and as such, these active systems do not scale in the same manner as passive semiconductors. This is because battery technology is a prisoner of physics, the periodic table, manufacturing technology and economics.