Japan's Wind Power Installations To Drop 68% As Subsidies Are Halted

Japan’s wind power installations for the year ending in March will decline 68 percent after the government halted a program that provided subsidies for clean energy projects, an industry association said.

Iowa carbon emissions rise despite wind power | Des Moines Register Staff Blogs

Wind power now accounts for 20 percent of Iowa’s electrical generation.

But Iowa’s energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose 7.5 percent from 2000 to 2009 while falling nationally by 7.4 percent, according to the EIA data.

Will The Ice Return?

Some 15,000 years ago, the spot where I am now writing this - Hampshire in England - was uninhabitable. The Arctic tundra that came before the green fields was home to very few animals and no humans. The ice sheet stopped only a few miles north of here, hardly moving for tens of thousands of years. Today's great cities including Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh were all under a kilometre of ice. Such a contrast to today only 15,000 years later.

Detroit Auto Show: Chairman Chu - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

As Chu and his entourage boarded a plane back to Washington, automakers were already busy preparing the show floor for public consumption next week. Chu’s electrics will move to the background as automakers flog the popular SUVs that have once again captured over 50 percent of the U.S. market.

Austrian Tyrol sees record snowfall

Arlberg reports 550cm of powder on Galzig mountain and 585cm on Valluga, meaning the locations top the ‘deepest snow in the world’ league on Skiinfo.co.uk.

Severe snowfalls trap 17,000 in Alps

Ten feet of snow in two days. ‘Freak’ snowfalls cut road, rail and air links. European ski resorts in ‘lockdown’

Confusion Continues In Alaska | Real Science

Update Jan. 10, 5:30 p.m. from Capt. Carter Whalen, president of Alaska Marine Pilots

Today’s progress is about 50′. Healy is trying to free Renda right now from an ice ridge.