Never Mind Oil, Group Says: Think Atlantic Wind - NYTimes.com

The Atlantic coast has more energy to give via wind than it does from oil or gas, according to a study sponsored by Oceana, an environmental group.  [If we could harness all of that wind, would that change the climate in any way?]
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Such energy comparisons have an apples-and-oranges quality because at the moment, electricity cannot replace gasoline. But Jacqueline Savitz, a senior campaign director of Oceana and co-author of the report, said: “If we start thinking now about how we get there, we could electrify the fleet. Maybe it’s in five years, maybe it’s 10.’’

Jim DeMint vows roadblock - Manu Raju - POLITICO.com

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint warned Monday evening that he would block all legislation that has not been cleared by his office in the final days of the pre-election session.

Bret Bernhardt, DeMint's chief of staff, said in an e-mail to GOP aides that his boss would place a hold on all legislation that has not been cleared by both parties by the end of the day Tuesday.

This is a news website article about a scientific finding | Martin Robbins | Science | guardian.co.uk

In the standfirst I will make a fairly obvious pun about the subject matter before posing an inane question I have no intention of really answering: is this an important scientific finding?

Human Mortality in Castile-Leon, Spain

The data of Figure 1 clearly demonstrate that the people of the Castile-Leon region of Spain are much more likely to die from a cardiovascular disease in the extreme cold of winter than in the extreme heat of summer. And the same holds true with respect to dying from respiratory and digestive system diseases: cold is a much greater killer of people than heat is almost everywhere in the world, as may readily be verified by perusing the reviews of numerous studies of the subject that have been conducted around the globe and that we have archived in our Subject Index under the general heading of Mortality (Hot vs. Cold Weather).