The Copenhagen Mash: Could a Dreadful Music Video Could Hurt Climate Change Talks?

But wait! You can feel good about yourself too! Simply upload a clip of you saying "tck" to their website!

I swear I'm not making this up.

TCJ's campaign is but the latest example of what I like to call activist narcissism, the impossibly naive belief that getting a bunch of beautiful people together to preen and act outraged is an adequate substitute for real change. If these musicians (and impossibly hot actresses) really want to effect change, perhaps they can stop flying around the world on private jets and living in 10,000 sq. ft mansions.

Cremated bodies to power air-con in Taiwan- Hindustan Times

A Taiwan crematorium plans to use exhaust from its ovens to power its air-conditioning system, officials said Wednesday, in a move critics blasted as insensitive to mourning relatives.

The Taipei Mortuary Services Office has invested 7.7 million Taiwan dollars (240,000 dollars) on technology that recycles exhaust from cremations, converting it into electricity, deputy director Yang Yi-lin told AFP.

Government Sees Lower Winter Heating Bills - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Thanks to lower energy costs and forecasts for a milder winter, Americans will pay less to heat their homes this year that they did last winter.

Winter Forecasts must be sending shivers down the spines of Global Warming people

With all the snow falling across a large area of the West and Northern tier of the USA, Scotland's Highlands and the European Alpine region, folks at the IPCC, NOAA, UK Met, Al Gore and others who depend on their warm models must surely be squirming just a little at the thought of some of these winter forecasts that are increasingly appearing from the closet actually holding water.

Tennessee Pols to Lamar Alexander: Forget About Low-Carbon Fuel Standards - Environmental Capital - WSJ

There was a low-carbon fuel standard in the first version of the Waxman-Markey bill; it later disappeared. It has yet to appear in the Senate climate bill. Yet the very idea of a low-carbon fuel standard that could put Canadian oil off limits has the energy-security crowd mobilizing.