Expeditions Recalled: "The Fate of Greenland" - NYTimes.com

It was surely one of the great scientific adventures of the modern age. For several years in the middle of the last decade, a group of eminent climate scientists fell under the patronage of a billionaire philanthropist named Gary Comer, who turned his luxury yacht into a scientific platform for exploring the Arctic. Spending Mr. Comer’s money and riding in planes and helicopters that he procured, the researchers managed in just a few years to turn up intriguing new evidence about the potential for abrupt climate change.

The Top 10 Solar States - NYTimes.com

As I reported in Thursday’s story about solar panels attached to utility poles, New Jersey is the nation’s second largest solar market behind California thanks to the state government’s commitment to increase the amount of electricity derived from renewable energy sources over the next decade.