U.K. Cutting Back Fledgling Program to Encourage Solar Power Development - NYTimes.com

PARIS — At Peter Seggers’s organic vegetable farm in Wales, solar panels generate enough electricity to power the farmhouse, shop and barn, with plenty left over.

Teen violence linked to heavy soda diet: study

High-school students in inner-city Boston who consumed more than five cans of non-diet, fizzy soft drinks every week were between nine and 15-percent likelier to engage in an aggressive act compared with counterparts who drank less.

"What we found was that there was a strong relationship between how many soft drinks that these inner-city kids consumed and how violent they were, not only in violence against peers but also violence in dating relationships, against siblings," said David Hemenway, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health.

"It was shocking to us when we saw how clear the relationship was," he told AFP in an interview.

Grove: AB 32 is a hindrance, not solution - Ridgecrest, CA - Ridgecrest Daily Independent

CARB is essentially saying, “We know this is bad for business and you’re going to lose some jobs, but we’ll make sure you don’t lose too many.” Are we supposed to say, “thank you?”
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We are not going to have cleaner air under this new law. There’s no way to comply. What will happen is this law will punish employers, cost us jobs, and produce a revenue source for the Democrats to spend without meeting the goals of AB 32.

Scientists are underplaying climate effects | Grist

[comment] The statement "The Arctic now has ice-free summers, 90 years in advance of predictions." is most definitely flat-out wrong. The Arctic has not had less than 4 million square kilometers, in our data and any other source one cares to look at, even at the summer minimum.While extent and thickness are decreasing and ice-free summers are certainly possible, even probable, in much less than 90 years, we are not there yet. Not even close.

Walt Meier
Research Scientist   [Via Anthony Watts]