Wind Farm Rebellion Blows Across Britain

The wind farm rebellion gathered pace yesterday following a landmark High Court ruling. Campaigners are taking heart from a judge’s decision on Tuesday that the right of villagers to preserve their landscape is more important than renewable energy targets.

Susan Joy Hassol: Telling The Climate Change Story - YouTube

In this presentation co-hosted by WHRC and MBL, renowned climate change communications specialist Susan Joy Hassol will discuss the range of causes for this dilemma. She will also address how we can improve communication of climate change by what we say and how we say it, dealing with framing, psychological and cultural issues, and questions involving language.z

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Temps in South Dakota yest

Temps in South Dakota yesterday were 30 degrees below normal for highs.

LDK Solar ‘Fantasy Land’ Forecast Belies Debt, U.S. Duty - Bloomberg

LDK Solar Co. (LDK), the world’s second- largest maker of solar wafers, lost 38 percent of its market value in four trading days as analysts cut estimates today and questioned whether its balance sheet can withstand a global oversupply and threats from U.S. tariffs.

...Investors “have for the most part identified LDK as the one solar company with the most precarious balance sheet and most liquidity issues,” Chew said today in a telephone interview. “LDK’s solvency issues are coming to the forefront, and that’s just killing the stock. You have people rushing for the exits.”

The company’s “focus on scale to the exclusion of all else” isn’t working, Hari Chandra Polavarapu, an analyst at Auriga USA LLC in New York, wrote in a May 1 note to investors. LDK’s “guidance still resides in fantasy land” and its “debt morass” is dragging down earnings.

“The company is representative of all that is wrong with the Chinese solar PV manufacturing base, which serves as a large-scale employment welfare scheme subsidized and fully underwritten by the government,” Polavarapu said in an e-mail today.