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U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander - R-Tenn.

Calls for doubling research funding, ending long-term subsidies for Big Oil and Big Wind

The Obama Tar Sands Pipeline? - YouTube

Discover the truth about the Keystone XL pipeline. Former Obama administration greens jobs advisor Van Jones cuts through the myths and explains what is really going on -- and who will be to blame if the pipeline is approved.

Bike til it hertz: College kids spin out campus electricity | Grist

On average, Schanz-Garbassi says, a rider generates between 100 and 250 watts. At that rate, it would take a peloton of 280 people to power the average home in Vermont and other cold climates...Friends in student government helped her get the $50,000 needed to purchase the bikes, alternators, and inverter box.

Preservation Ranch: Big conservation, thanks to carbon credits « Bay Nature

“To enter into a forest-based carbon offset project requires the owner of the land to make a 100-year commitment to protect that carbon they are sequestering,” says Kelly. “AB 32 [California's key global warming law] only goes through 2020, so there might be only seven years of carbon sales..."

Erratic US 'weather whiplash' cited as example of climate change | World news | guardian.co.uk

[Global warming hoax promoter Suzanne Goldenberg blames CO2 for tornadoes] Deaths due to natural disasters reached 9,600 – only a fraction of the 10-year average of 106,000, the report said.