2012 Nissan Leaf Battery Warmer: More Details - KickingTires

This is a very different kind of heater — in essence, a battery-powered battery warmer.
...At roughly minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 30 degrees Celsius), battery-electric and some hybrid cars simply won't turn on.

Cliff Mass vs. the Tree-Ring Gang in a PDO Classic | The SunBreak

Says Mass, “Folks, we are in the early days of the warming and most of the action is yet to come. We need to be very careful on jumping to conclusions too early, since that only aids the deniers and skeptics who are just looking to pounce on excessive claims.”

Friends of the Earth Launches ‘No Sense’ Campaign - Domestic Fuel

Our ethanol FOE, Friends of the Earth, is back in action with a new TV campaign, “No Sense,” designed to encourage policymakers in DC to dump ethanol subsidies. The campaign was launched just in time for the first Republican presidential debate set to take place in New Hampshire next Monday at St. Anselm College. The campaign is a joint effort between Friends of the Earth and Taxpayers for Common Sense, another organization that has been vocal for months regarding the end of subsidies.

“Corn ethanol is not living up to its promise,” said Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth. “Ethanol production requires tons of petrochemicals and diverts land that could be better used for growing traditional food. This country’s ethanol tax credits have increased food prices around the world and made climate pollution even worse.”

A Solar Scientist Rebuts a Cool Sunspot Prediction - NYTimes.com

the Sun [not the IPCC?!] , in the end, will determine who’s right.

Obama Backs EPA War on Coal, While Networks Ignore Harm to Industry

But what the networks rarely report is how necessary coal power is for the U.S., that it provides high paying jobs in rural areas, and that it has been getting safer.