Government's wind farm plans are 'big gamble' and the numbers do not add up, say MPs | Mail Online

the reports adds that it is ‘a notoriously expensive and intermittent source of electricity supply and imposing an unacceptable cost on consumers’.

Blame China for Solyndra’s Downfall?

Whether it’s Solyndra execs and DOE officials trying to save face, ”progressives” defending the honor of green industrial policy, or former employees looking for more taxpayer freebies, they all would have us believe that Solyndra’s $535 million loan guarantee was a good bet at the time it was made. They need a scapegoat for Solyndra’s crash, so they blame China.

Measuring Climate Sensitivity – Part One « The Science of Doom

The value called climate sensitivity might be a variable (i.e., not a constant value) and it might turn out to be much harder to measure than it really seems (and already it doesn’t seem easy).

Atlas publisher apologizes for Greenland ice error - Technology & Science - CBC News

The publisher of a well-known atlas has apologized for saying that 15 per cent of Greenland's permanent ice cover has had to be erased between 1999 and 2011.

First Solar says plant to miss U.S. loan deadline | Reuters

(Reuters) - First Solar Inc said it would not meet a deadline to receive a federal loan guarantee for a huge solar power plant it is building in California, sending its shares to their lowest level in more than four years.