Time For Climate [Hoax] Activists to Get Tough | Rolling Stone Politics

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? Is it time to take to the streets, express some outrage, maybe engage in a little guerilla warfare against Big Oil and Big Coal?
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This question of how far to take the fight to stop global warming has haunted activists for years. But now that more conventional solutions, such as a global treaty to cut greenhouse-gas pollution, are dead, the issue is more pressing than ever. As the crisis grows, the temptation to turn up the volume with more dramatic and attention-grabbing protests will only increase. Climate activists often speculate about who will emerge as the Martin Luther King of the climate movement. But it may be equally relevant to ask who will emerge as the Malcolm X.

The Associated Press: Wacky West weather means snow on the 4th of July

Ski poles are replacing fishing poles at popular hiking and camping spots where late-winter snowstorms blanketed Western mountains from the Rockies to the Sierra Nevada.
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California's Alpine Meadows will be open Independence Day weekend for the first time since 1995, and for just the second time in its 50-year history, said spokeswoman Rachael Woods.

New York City’s massive solar opportunity | Grist

The cumulative impact is enormous, with city rooftops capable of providing half the city's peak power, and 14 percent of its annual electricity consumption.

The city should immediately maximize solar power development to save millions in electricity costs.  [And what about the potential to immediately save *billions* by requiring city employees to wear hats topped with small wind turbines?]