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Bill McKibben’s Economics: ‘We have to take the hundred million dollars a day that Exxon spends on finding new oil, and have them spend it on solar panels instead’ | JunkScience.com

Past the seizing-and-spending-other-people’s-money part, if Exxon did that, it would soon have no money to spend on anything.

Bill McKibben: ‘It makes no sense to pay for one’s pension by investing in companies that make sure we won’t have a planet to retire on’ | JunkScience.com

Where’s the planet going?

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New ExxonMobil Corporate Citizenship Report: company expects carbon price of $80 per tonne in OECD nations by 2040: http://is.gd/2EKAQL 

Crews to clear snow from road to Artist Point beginning June 3 | Local News | The Bellingham Herald

The snow is about 25 feet deep in the upper parking lot at Artist Point, Chesson said.

Up to foot of snow possible in northwest Wyoming - Laramie Boomerang Online

It may be late May, but snow is still falling in parts of Wyoming.

Snow blankets Queenstown ahead of ski season

Queenstown is buzzing after 24 hours of constant snowfalls blanketed the town and surrounding mountains, giving local ski areas a huge boost before the start of the winter season.

MURPHY: Assessing the “Five Circles of Carbon Tax Hell”

The only way to even attempt to justify a U.S. federal carbon tax is to come up with some very heroic assumptions about alternative energy sources and the willingness of other governments to follow suit in arresting their own economic development. James DeLong’s new study offers a good survey of the various issues involved, and concludes that a carbon tax has many problems that have not been given sufficient attention in the current policy debate.