Nicholas Lemann: What Happened to the Environmental Movement? : The New Yorker

liberals have come to take as a core creed the urgent need to reckon with global warming, and limit carbon emissions. To turn concern into action requires politics. The science of carbon emissions is there. The politics is not.

Study: Australian carbon tax could mean 100 percent renewables by 2030 (Wired UK)

Australian researchers claim to have demonstrated that a tax on carbon emissions could, if structured properly, result in an energy market made up entirely of renewable energy by 2030.

Israel is ideal for... | Lomborg

Israel is ideal for electric cars: $7.5/gallon of gasoline and a small country, with pretty much the only long-distance option between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem (65km/40mi).

Yet, Better Place has only sold 750 vehicles and lost $500m. Yale Environment's conclusion: electric cars are still not ready.

Twitter / Revkin: "Fear of global warming on ...

"Fear of global warming on rise" WaPo headline, but poll data in @aaronblakeWP piece = water sloshing in shallow pan: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/04/08/fear-of-global-warming-on-the-rise …

UK: Fashion sales hit by cold snap

Clothing and footwear retailers had a dismal month as the cold weather froze sales, leaving Summer skirts and sandals on the shelves.