Mother still haunted by son’s ‘needless’ death after heat cut off

CALGARY — Alone and shivering, John Davis knew he would not survive the night in the bitter cold of his own home.

On Nov. 23, 2006, as Calgary was gripped in a deep freeze, the 58-year-old man — whose heat remained cut off months after he paid his overdue bill — spoke on the phone to his mother in Edmonton that evening and delivered an ominous prediction: “I’m going to die tonight, Mom.”

His frozen body was found the next morning.

Facebook Shut Down for Earth Hour? : Campaign with video : Online Social Media

What are your thoughts on the campaign to get Facebook to shut down for one hour on March 26? Surely we could all get by without Facebook for one hour?

The economy of carbon footprints » Columns » Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, WV

Does anyone remember a former U.S. senator who was a member of the board of directors and an attorney for Occidental Petroleum? I’ll give you hint. He taught law at Vanderbilt University and he was also the chairman of Island Creek Coal Company of Lexington, Ky. His son is a former vice-president of the United States who advocates a global warming theory. Yes the man was Sen. Albert Arnold “Al” Gore, Sr. of Granville, Tenn. The younger Gore is apparently against everything that helped his father become a very rich man, but obviously isn’t against being rich.

China won't repeat errors in 2015 emissions goals: NDRC | Reuters

"In order to meet their eleventh five-year plan targets, some regions took a series of extreme actions, even restricting power supplies -- this was not our original intention and this kind of method is not appropriate," said Zhang Ping, chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).

Private steel mills in Hebei province told Reuters in December that they were given a day's notice by local authorities before having to shut operations completely.