Climate change denial and the abuse of peer review - YouTube

Professor Stephan Lewandowsky discusses the tactics of climate change deniers.

GM discounts Volt, showing that electric cars must be cheaper for people to buy them | StarTribune.com

GM executives have conceded from the start that they were losing money on the Volt, and that was before the big discounts.

Now the losses could be even higher. It costs $60,000 to $75,000 to build a Volt, including development, manufacturing and raw materials, estimates Sandy Munro, president of Munro & Associates, a Troy, Mich., a company that analyzes vehicle production expenses for automakers. Much of the cost comes from an expensive combination of two power systems — electric and gasoline. With a sticker price of $40,000, minus the $10,000 the company pays in incentives, GM gets roughly $30,000 for every Volt. So it could be losing at least $30,000 per car.

Twitter / MCNisbet: Nice round up by Deb Blum on ...

Nice round up by Deb Blum on scientists using embargo strategy to drive narrative and then activists taking up effort: http://ksj.mit.edu/tracker/2012/09/rancid-corrupt-way-report-about-science …