The heat is on the new State Aquatic Centre | Adelaide Now

SWIMMERS are flocking to the heated pool at the new State Aquatic Centre as the city shivers through some of its coldest daytime weather in years.

Bering sea water temperature, headed down | Watts Up With That?

Apparently, not all the Arctic is warming to script.

CAFE Standards: Down the Rabbit Hole - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

The federal government’s 35-year experiment in mandating fuel efficiency — the so-called Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standard (CAFE) — has been a disaster. It eliminated thousands of Detroit jobs by eliminating big sedans prized by the public (until manufacturers found a loophole for the resurrection of big cars as SUVs), killed thousands of Americans by downsizing cars, forced automakers to divert millions of lobbying dollars to Washington, and didn’t prevent America from becoming more dependent on foreign oil.

So Washington is remaking the standards. And this time, they say, they’ve got it right. Sure.

The coming clean tech crash - Fortune Tech

Forget about the tech bubble. The clean tech industry has been inflating for years, thanks to generous government financing. But that's about to change.