“Without energy, life is brutal and short” | Watts Up With That?

Today, I’m thankful for two things: 1) Our freedom, secured by veterans we honor today and 2) Our wonderful energy infrastructure, without which, I couldn’t bring you this essay and Bill McKibben would be chopping wood in Vermont just to keep warm.

Here’s Paul’s essay on life in the Little Ice Age in England

A Graying Population Reduces Global Warming | Climate Change Projections & Demographics & Aging | LiveScience

You can help the environment by getting old

Russian scientist predicts 100 years of cooling

In a study of cyclic behavior of the Sun, Russian scientists now predict 100 years of cooling.

These are not just any scientists. This forecast comes from astrophysicist Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the Russian segment of the International Space Station, and head of Space Research of the Sun Sector at the Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The New Nostradamus of the North: U.S. wind turbine market set to "fall off a cliff" in 2013

Vestas´ downward path is another example off the fact, that companies relying on government subsidies are always in danger of makíng huge losses, immediately when governments decide to remove or reduce the subsidies.