Sun sets on Australia's last solar factory - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The only Australian company which manufactures solar cells is closing the operation.

Silex Solar has announced it will stop making the cells at its western Sydney facility, with 30 jobs to be lost.

SciAm confuses “logarithmic” with “exponential” – thinks CO2 has greater effect now than before Industrial Revolution | JunkScience Sidebar

Just to help these guys sort it out, note that the first half of CO2‘s pre-IR effect is delivered by approximately 20ppmv while the 2nd half of its “natural” greenhouse effect requires more than 10-times as much again:

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Cloudy with 100% Chance of Corporate State

Kudos to the LA Times and folks like Kevin Drum for digging this up, but everyone involved should be embarrassed by just how partisan outrage on this kind of thing can be. The same folks who are rightly upset at Perry actively cheered on Obama as he took ownership of GM away from the secured creditors and handed it to his major campaign supporters in the UAW. His stimulus program has been a trillion dollar slush fund to pay off nearly every liberal constituency, and while I find the idea of a state-run venture capital fund horrifying, I see no difference here with Obama’s green job investments, many of which have gone triends, campaign supporters, and even spouses of prominent administration officials.

EU Referendum: The fantasy of wind

The wind-energy lobby has been masterly at garnering huge subsidies and mandates by claiming that its product is a "green" alternative to conventional electricity. But the hype has obscured a dirty little secret: When power demand is highest, wind energy output is generally low. The reverse is also true: Wind-energy production is usually highest during the middle of the night, when electricity use is lowest.

Yet, in the UK, we are going down the same ridiculous path. It cannot be a surprise, though, that the three people whose judgement is lacking in other matters, are most supporting of renewable energy: Messrs Cameron, Clegg and Huhne.