Farmers Worried About Global Warming | Real Science

Corn production in the US is forecast to be eighth largest on record, while neurotic city dwellers obsess about the drought they imagine is coming to get them.

Blast from the Past: Where Are the 5 Million Green Jobs? - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

It was at the 2008 town-hall style debate — the same format as tonight — that candidate Obama set forth is plan to create 5 million green jobs.

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Lüning/Vahrenholt Comment On HadCRUT’s 16 Years Of No Warming: “Tough Times Ahead For Climate Science”

It’s also interesting that Rahmstorf suddenly is now increasingly emphasizing the sun, though the sun matters more for the long-term over years to decades. Speaking of solar activity, things with the upcoming solar maximum in the Spring of 2013 don’t appear to be cooperating either. The value will be considerably below the past cycles, which will tend to have more of a cooling effect than one of warming. Moreover some experts are already warning that the solar maximum of the current cycle may already be behind us(see our blog article: “Have we already missed the maximum of the current solar cycle? Asymmetry of the sun signals an extended period of low activity“). It’s quite possible that hard times lie ahead for climate science…

The New Nostradamus of the North: Goodbye electric cars! - Welcome to natural gas powered vehicles!

It is time to say goodbye to one of the favorites of the greenies - the uneconomical and expensive electric car. Instead there is every reason to welcome a new phase of the American led shale gas revolution - vehicles powered by natural gas. As Mustafa Mohatarem, Chief economist at General Motors says, natural gas is "the next big transportation fuel".

A U.N. Discussion Seeks a New Set of Global Goals - NYTimes.com

[Revkin] Here’s the Twitter flow around a special session I’ve been running this morning at the United Nations, called Conceptualizing a Set of Sustainable Development Goals