Climate finance plan could break talks inertia | Trevor Manuel and Nicholas Stern | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Our report showing how $100bn a year can be raised for climate adaptation will help make progress towards agreement at Cancún

Reject All-of-the-Above Energy Approaches | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

The problem is that when everyone gets a windfall, those pennies taken from the consumers add up quickly. It signals to businesses that instead of spending time and resources figuring out how to lower costs, they should spend more time and resources in Washington begging for handouts. It removes the incentive to become economically competitive.

Dumb Meteorologists – Part II

All surrounding stations show a warm time back around 1940, and a warming trend beginning around 1980 or 90, which may be due to station siting issues. All stations seem to be heavily impacted by the AMO. The claim that there is a CO2 cause, as Blouin asserts, and that the warming is unusual has no merit. Also ice cores show that Greenland was very warm 900 years ago, during the MWP. In short: Madame Blouin est plein merde.

Dalton Minimum Returns: Is increased vulcanism associated with low sunspots?

During the Dalton Minimum there was significant volcanic activity in conjunction with low sunspot activity. In 1815 Indonesian volcano Tambora creating the biggest eruption in the last 10,000 years, which led to a cooling of the climate globally.

Now we are seeing more volcanic activity around the Pacific, in Iceland and Africa. The question is are these activities above normal and what are the long term consequences?

India predicts 40% leap in demand for fossil fuels - Yahoo! News

NEW DELHI (AFP) – Premier Manmohan Singh told India's energy firms on Monday to scour the globe for fuel supplies as he warned the country's demand for fossil fuels is set to soar 40 percent over the next decade.

Orders for wind turbines to fall by 93%, energy experts predict « Wind Concerns Ontario

Analysts are forecasting a 93% drop in the installation of new offshore windfarms in 2013 compared with the previous year.