The shocking truth about electric cars - The Globe and Mail

There’s just one problem. The fantasy that electric cars are right around the corner doesn’t survive even the most cursory reality check. As Dennis DesRosiers, a leading auto consultant, points out, consumers simply won’t pay a $20,000 premium for a vehicle that doesn’t go very far, isn’t very convenient, and runs out of juice as soon as you turn on the air conditioner.

Obama shelves EPA smog rule in huge defeat for environmental groups - The Hill's E2-Wire

League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski slammed the decision as a capitulation.

"The Obama administration is caving to big polluters at the expense of protecting the air we breathe. This is a huge win for corporate polluters and huge loss for public health."

Frank O’Donnell, head of the environmental group Clean Air Watch, called the decision “political cowardice” in an email Friday.

He threw the rattle out the pram! | ScottishSceptic

Of course, reading between the lines it is pretty obvious what happened. The editor is a warmist, he didn’t like the fact that he had been forced to print a seminal work exposing the fraud of the scaled up CO2 models which are proven false by Spencer and by the simple fact it hasn’t warmed as they predict. And like all people deluded by their own importance he thought that the mere threat of resigning would cause people to come grovelling to him begging for him to stay so that he could force them to tow the warmist line. And when they just said: “fine go”, he threw the rattle out the pram and went home crying to mummy.