American Thinker: California's Renewable Economic Suicide

Gov. Jerry Brown, flakier now as a recycled geriatric governor than he was as Governor Moonbeam decades ago, has decided to place his state into economic hospice care. By proudly signing legislation that would require California to obtain 33% of its electric power from renewable sources by 2020 -- the Renewable Energy Bill -- he is telegraphing that the state does not have much longer to live.

The planet strikes back: Why we underestimate the Earth and overestimate ourselves | Grist

In his 2010 book Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, environmental scholar and activist Bill McKibben writes of a planet so devastated by global warming that it's no longer recognizable as the Earth we once inhabited. This is a planet, he predicts, of "melting poles and dying forests and a heaving, corrosive sea, raked by winds, strafed by storms, scorched by heat." Altered as it is from the world in which human civilization was born and thrived, it needs a new name -- so he gave it that extra "a" in "Eaarth."

Half-naked college students protest coal | Grist

Oh, college students.They'll use just about anything as an excuse to take off their clothes.

Cap-and-trade policy won’t ‘hoover up western resources,’ says Ignatieff

EDMONTON — Any cap-and-trade program created by a potential Liberal government would not move Alberta resources to Eastern Canada, Michael Ignatieff promised at an Edmonton campaign stop Saturday.

Steel Guru : More unions demand exemption of steel production from carbon tax in Australia - 200791 - 2011-04-17

The Australian reported that Australia's most powerful union leader has demanded Ms Julia Gillard exempt steel production from the carbon tax, with workers and bosses uniting for the first time to warn of job losses and the potential collapse of the industry.