Spoof ad thanks GM for pulling Heartland funding - latimes.com

In the activist ad, Maroc stands next to the car in an otherwise white room (it was shot on greenscreen) and talks about how she loves everything about the Volt, but was upset about their support for Heartland, citing the group’s attempt to introduce grade school curriculum that questions whether humans are responsible for global warming.

“Ridiculous,” she says.

Quadrant Online - What's wrong with the science?

Our analysis finds no evidence that dangerous global warming is occurring; nor that human carbon dioxide emissions will cause such warming in future; nor that recent Australian climate-related events lay outside normal climate variability; nor that reducing carbon dioxide emissions will have any discernible impact on future climate.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds climate variation due to tilt & rotation of Sun & Moon

A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research associates climate variation, such as the El Niño–Southern Oscillation [ENSO], "with the obliquity [tilt] and revolution velocity of the Sun and Moon; the speed of geophysical fluids; and the latitude, radius, and rotation velocity of Earth." The authors find climate cycles lasting from days to years may be related to this natural mechanism. 

GSA sustainability chief fired amid fallout over luxury conference

The Obama administration's audacious federal sustainability effort suffered a setback yesterday when a key federal official who had been tapped to help lead the initiative was fired from his General Services Administration post amid the fallout over a glitzy training conference that has become a symbol of government waste.