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Enviros Livid as Brown Diverts Cap-and-Trade Funds

Under state law, cap-and-trade proceeds are supposed to go toward programs that help reduce the state's carbon footprint. And Brown himself has touted the potential uses of those funds in furthering the goals of California's central climate strategy under the 2006 law known as AB32. But the administration now says many of those carbon-cutting programs aren't ready for prime time, and in the meantime the funds can help balance the state budget. According to the governor's staff, the diversion is a "loan" that will be paid back with interest.

‘Black Sand’ helps Mother Nature melt snow a little quicker on mountain passes | Utah

Monday afternoon, plow crews were able to break through the remaining 4-foot snow drifts on state Route 39

Daily Kos: More global warming could be ahead than seen in millions of years

Paleo-climate Professor Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars (and today, a debut DKos diarist), emailed noting that "The last time we're confident CO2 levels breached 400ppm, was the mid Miocene, around 10 million years ago, though it could have been a bit later, e.g. 4 million years. In either case, we know that the globe was quite a bit warmer than today, with much less ice around, and much higher sea level." When asked, Mann added he could think of no significant factor present now and not present then that might dampen warming.

Tobacco Front-Group Chairman And Climate Science Denier Named President Of New Mexico State University | ThinkProgress

Carruthers has not yet commented publicly whether he will ensure the NMSU Climate Action Plan is followed.

Insurers Stray From the Conservative Line on Climate Change - NYTimes.com

Yet when I asked Mr. Nutter what the American insurance industry was doing to combat global warming, his answer was surprising: nothing much.