Cape Wind: NIMBYism Is Just Part of the Problem - Environmental Capital - WSJ

What really makes offshore wind power expensive is the additional cost of building wind farms at sea: about 64% of the total cost of offshore projects comes from the platforms to hold the turbines, the need for new undersea transmission cables, and the extra maintenance costs.

Record Low 2009 Tornadoes, LA 10/29 Was Big

But compared to the last 5 years, it's actually not that crazy; 2005, 2006 and 2007 had similar low counts

It's official: October was frigid | New Zealand

Chilly weather kept temperatures down to record low levels across Otago last month, with Dunedin experiencing its coldest October since records began about 60 years ago.

Nationally, it was the coldest October in 64 years, with an average temperature of 10.6degC (1.4degC) below the long-term average) and record low temperatures recorded in many areas, including Otago, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) climate summary says.

Al Gore’s new book ‘Our Choice’ — a review by John Doerr | VentureBeat

My daughter said with anger “Dad, your generation created this problem. You’d better fix it.” Our Choice is the Field Guide to fixing the climate crisis, a set of solutions worthy of your consideration.

Read this book. If you must, burn (and sequester) the others. And recycle the rest!

When mankind confronts and conquers the climate crisis it will be because one man made Our Choice clear.