Sandy forces climate change on US election despite fossil fuel lobby | Bill McKibben | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

...I'm doubting that even Sandy, the largest storm ever, will be enough to make our political class serious about climate change.

Michael Mann Falsely Claims He Was Awarded Nobel Peace Prize | Heartlander Magazine

Unwilling to accept the Nobel Institute’s determination gracefully, Mann bitterly tweeted, “IPCC certificate acknowledging me ‘contributing to award of the Nobel Peace Prize’. Do they want my birth certif too?”

So there you have it: The Nobel Institute denies it ever awarded a prize to Michael Mann. I guess it is time to add the Nobel Institute to the long list of Michael Mann-designated “deniers.”

- Bishop Hill blog - Lost Horizons

[27-minute video: Vimeo] Ben Pile's new film on windfarms has been released. Colour me very impressed. Phillip Bratby features early on.

Chinese Back in the Picture to Buy Bankrupt A123 Systems | National Legal and Policy Center

What’s clearly left is a huge mess created by the Obama administration’s venture capital “investments” in green energy, the costs of which go far beyond the simple grants and loans from taxpayers. All the manpower required from (failed) bureaucratic analysis of grant applications and un-due diligence, to the now-necessary court labor that must sort it out, to the Congressional investigators who now have to get to the bottom of what went wrong, will add millions of dollars more to the cost of government’s involvement.

Remember, this was all launched in the name of energy efficiency to prevent global warming. The planet’s not heating up, but you can’t credit lousy deals like this for that.