Cold nights driving rats and mice inside homes - San Diego, California News Station - KFMB Channel 8 - cbs8.com

SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - Cold weather and rain aren't the only unwelcome things invading San Diego.

There has been an influx of rats and other pests wiggling their way into people's homes to get out of the cooler temperatures.

House Dem presses Virginia AG for explanation of EPA criticism - The Hill's E2-Wire

The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wants Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli to back up his claims that a pending Environmental Protection Agency air pollution regulation will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and drastically increase electricity prices.

Cuccinelli, a climate skeptic and vocal critic of EPA, told the committee last week that EPA’s pending air toxics rules for power plants — known as the utility maximum available control technology (MACT) rules — will increase electricity prices by as much as 35 percent and kill 180,000 jobs per year from 2013 to 2020.

Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the panel, blasted Cuccinelli in a letter Tuesday for not including in his testimony citations that explain where he got his figures.

“Your claims appear to contradict reputable studies and analyses that predict only minor increases in electricity prices and net job gains,” Cummings wrote in the letter. “Even more peculiar is that your claims also appear to exaggerate even the potential negative impacts predicted by industry studies on which you presumably rely.”

New Green Scam: Light Bulb Carbon Credits

This rip-off and rent-seeking almost makes you long for Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s subprime days.

Nuclear Scientist and Hawaii Reporter Columnist Mike Fox Dies After Battle with Cancer | Hawaii Reporter

Mike wrote dozens of articles over the years that comforted scientists and many conservatives with his exposes on what he called corrupt and phony science and he angered many man made global warming believers. He took no prisoners when it came to taking on powerful people like former Vice President Al Gore and the claims Gore made about climate change.

More recently, Mike's family notes that he became a strong advocate for the position that "global climate change is a natural phenomenon which is not influenced by any human activity," and one of his favorite sayings was “Everybody is entitled to his own opinion: No one is entitled to his own facts.”