Hacked climate emails: police seize computers at West Yorkshire home | Environment | The Guardian

A spokesman for the University of East Anglia said today: "We are pleased to hear that the police are continuing to actively pursue the case following the release last month of a second tranche of hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit. We hope this will result in the arrest of those responsible for the theft of the emails and for distorting the debate on the globally important issue of climate change."

Police seize computers in connection with Climategate hacking | Grist

You have to appreciate the irony here -- skeptics hound climate scientists to hand over all their scientific data, then steal their emails. Authorities ask Tattersall to collect all his information, then seize his computers. One hopes they won't be picking through his files, pulling out incriminating-looking sentences to publicize out of context. Except one can't help kind of hoping they will.

Renewable energy: As rooftop solar surges, states hit brakes -- 12/12/2011 -- www.eenews.net

Now, so many Hawaiians have installed rooftop panels that entire neighborhoods -- and soon, entire islands -- have maxed out the amount of rooftop solar power the energy company wants on the electrical grid. Barring expensive studies no one wants to fund, solar development in these areas grounded to a halt. Homeowners' and developers' rush to solar power has run smack into a grid unprepared for their demands.

Capitol Alert: Jerry Brown criticizes 'political lemmings' of climate change

SAN FRANCISCO -- Gov. Jerry Brown railed this morning against politicians who doubt climate change, calling "political lemmings" the chief obstacle in combating global warming.

"The main thing we have to deal with in climate change is the skepticism, the denial and the cult-like behavior of the political lemmings that would take us over the cliff," Brown said at a high-profile conference on climate change at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

Jerry Brown: GOP in 'denial' on climate change - latimes.com

Speaking to about 250 scientists, activists, policy officials and Richard Branson, Brown blasted Republicans for being in "absolute denial" about the risks of global climate change.

He singled out the conservative Cato Institute of contributing to the "cult-like behavior of the political lemmings that would take us over the cliff."

"I know something about cults," quipped Brown, a former seminary student. "I don't want to say my time with the Jesuits was a cult experience, but it was dogmatic, somewhat one-sided to say the least, and not particularly open to contrary opinion."

..."We have to pull together and do everything we can to wake people up" about climate change, Brown said.