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Peter Thiel, president of Clarium Capital Management
One of the most stunning changes from the last year involves the strange disappearance of global warming. One must wonder at how a scientific fact changed into an outmoded fashion.

Kickstarting Solar-Hybrid Power Plants: Couple the PR of solar with the actual power of coal?

Could hybrids provide a way out of the energy and environmental dilemma?

Not hybrid cars—but hybrid power plants that tack on renewable enery like solar power to existing fossil-fuel power plants. The “hybrid solar” idea got fresh legs this week, when the Electric Power Research Institute announced two new pilot projects to fuse solar power with coal-fired plants in New Mexico and North Carolina.The idea is to use solar thermal to generate steam that offsets some of the power plant’s need for traditional fuels.

Richard Littlemore | A Tardy Canadian Tackles An Inconvenient Truth

The neo-con Frontier Centre for Public Policy, long a promoter of oil-sponsored deniers of climate change, has produced a new "background paper" that challenges the showing of An Inconvenient Truth in Canadian schools on the basis of a 15-month-old UK Court decision.

Jeremy Jacquot | New EU President to Address the Faithful at International "Skeptic" Conference

The new face of the European Union also happens to be the old face of global warming skepticism. Vaclav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic and, since January 1, the rotating president of the European Union, will give a keynote speech at the second annual International Conference on Climate Change in New York.

The widely ridiculed skeptic gathering, which last year drew only a few hundred attendees (and no actual climate scientists), will address the “question” of whether global warming “was ever really a crisis,” according to its lead sponsor, The Heartland Institute.