Wish you were here! Obama enjoys Hawaiian vacation where the only ice is his frozen dessert | Mail Online

While the East Coast of America is digging itself out of this week's record-breaking blizzard, the Obamas are 5,000 miles away, enjoying temperatures in the high 20s Celsius (75-80 Fahrenheit) at their Kailua rental home.

Japan postpones carbon trading plans - 29 Dec 2010 - News from BusinessGreen

Japan yesterday postponed the creation of a greenhouse gas emission trading system by a year until after April 2014 in the face of strong opposition from the business lobby.
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"Overseas circumstances have changed. Our views on emissions trading schemes have also changed," he said, referring to the recent failures to pass emissions trading legislation in South Korea, the US and Australia.

When Cooling Becomes Warming | FrontPage Magazine

Were the stakes not so serious, the continuing efforts of global warming apologists to explain every climate condition using their pet theory would be comical. Unfortunately, and despite the death of cap and trade, the climate change crowd has already been very successful in undercutting the use of cheap, plentiful and economically beneficial fossil fuels in the United States. Even worse, the Obama administration will begin to clamp down even harder on the use of fossil fuels in 2011, in the midst of an economic crisis when America can least afford such largesse. In this context, the claim by global warming alarmists that record cold temperatures and massive snowstorms somehow confirm their beliefs demands refutation.

This year’s very worst Op-Eds mixed arrogance with stupidity | San Francisco Examiner

5. Al Gore and David Blood, “Toward Sustainable Capitalism,” Wall Street Journal (June 24): This pompous and impenetrable piece is the former vice president’s deep-think vision for the economy (and a pitch for Gore’s lucrative green-energy investment firm). More than anything, though, it is a hate crime against clear prose.
The authors’ use of the alleged verb “incent” — as in, we need to “incent investors to manage assets with a long-term perspective” — might leave you wondering, “Where’s the ‘English Only’ movement when we really need it?”