Those Messy Consumers and Their Pesky Freedom to Choose - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

“The costs are very high. The volumes are low,” Lauckner said to an audience of industry insiders, government bureaucrats, and green investors. “We are competing against a technology, the internal combustion engine (ICE), that has been continuously developed and has a 100-year head start.”

Actually, Lauckner has that last part wrong. The battery-powered auto has been around longer than the ICE, losing the battle of the power plants when Henry Ford introduced a cheap, mass-produced gas-powered auto in 1910. Electrics have been eating ICE dust ever since.

Don Blankenship (DonBlankenship) on Twitter

# “You lie.” Famous words spoken about Health Care Issue. More applicable to those promoting Global Warming.2:34 PM Oct 7th from web
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# Wouldn’t it be great if every American could vote on cap and trade bill in November? I bet the bill would lose in a landslide.3:03 PM Oct 5th from web
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# Nuke producer Exelon left US Chamber over cap and trade views. Decision based on principle or fact that nukes benefit from cap and trade?

Britain's only polar bear moved north to combat climate change - Telegraph

Britain's only polar bear has been moved to a colder climate in the Highlands where it will be less likely to feel the effects of global warming.
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Mercedes, a 27-year-old sow, has spent the last 25 years in a small enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo.

[Alternate headline: After 25 years spent far south of the Arctic Circle, polar bear still not dead]