Calif. Gov. Brown's eco-propaganda - Los Angeles Ecopolitics | Examiner.com

Gov. Brown’s new propaganda campaign includes his Office of Planning and Research website that attempts to demonize global warming skeptics, scientists and energy companies on the unsettled side of the climate change issue. The few “references” cited for Brown’s eco-propaganda website are neither current nor credible – citing Gore-era sources that are years, over three years, even over forty years old. Recent climate science research is more measured and rational with its predictions about the vagaries of global warming.

Bias Against Conservatives In Academia: Shocking New Study | William M. Briggs

About a one-fifth of academics admit they would hold a conservative’s views against him in the areas of grant applications, peer review, or in organizing symposia. This proportion doubles for voting for what an academic thinks his colleagues would do, and is therefore probably closer to the real percentage.

Electric car boom in Ind. city goes bust - CBS News

Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels was also on board in convincing Norwegian company Think Global to open a plant in Elkhart to build Think City electric cars with a sticker price of about $42,000.

As incentive, the federal government offered Think City $17 million in stimulus tax credits.

Dorinda Heiden-Guss heads up the local economic development effort. "We were excited," she said. "We were invigorated at a very devastating time."

But it turns out the company had a checkered track record, including three previous bankruptcies. We recently visited Think City's Indiana plant, and here's what we found: a largely empty warehouse.

Everybody hoped that by this time there would be more than 400 workers inside a bustling plant. Instead, today, there are just two workers at Think City. Rodney and Josh are slowly finishing assembly on a few dozen 2011 models shipped in from Norway.

Beekeepers feel the sting of climate change // Current TV

in Michigan this year, fruit trees bloomed unseasonably early, prompting Jelinek to ship them in March instead. But upon arrival, a series of frosts killed 200 of his hives, each of which contained 70,000 bees. The bees that did survive found the weather too cool and windy to fly, so the remaining blossoms weren't well pollinated. Frozen blossoms also meant there was less food for Jelinek's bees, so he had to find other food for them.

Honey bees prefer warm temperatures and calm winds to gather nectar and pollinate...A study from Cornell University in 2011 said that while bees have been keeping up with earlier springs so far, they may not be able to do so forever.