NY mayor blasts sugar ban critics: That's a lot of soda | Reuters

"There's nothing wrong with the products from PepsiCo and Coca-Cola," the former-business-leader-turned-mayor said. "They are responsible companies. They are making stuff that people want to buy. This is not targeted towards those companies. This is targeted the consumer."

Articles: Bloomberg's Coked-Out Nanny State

In the press conference announcing the move, Bloomberg rejected the idea that this would annoy people or store owners.

"Your argument, I guess, could be that it's a little less convenient to have to carry two 16-ounce drinks to your seat in the movie theater rather than one 32 ounce," Bloomberg said. "I don't think you can make the case that we're taking things away."

...New York City's slide toward big government is a foregone conclusion -- this is just the latest Bloomberg crackdown, following beat-downs of alcohol sales, trans fats, and even table salt.  The real question is whether the rest of the country will recognize the danger of this kind of nanny-statism if it comes calling in their own neighborhood.  The American people have to decide whether there is any limit to what the government should be able to tell you to do.

As for me, you can pry this Coca-Cola from my cold, dead hands.

1935 : Russian Ship Sailed 500 Miles From The Pole In Ice-Free Water | Real Science

The Reference Frame: Arctic stratospheric clouds unrelated to tropospheric temperature

Radiative cooling (and warming) isn't a key effect: a piece of the man-made climate change "lore" is shaken

This particular paper which may have isolated a major mistake in the would-be mainstream "lore" of the climate science – and in all the climate models – hasn't gotten a sufficient amount of attention in the climate blogosphere.