Chilly Florida Not Animal-Friendly | NBC Miami

Plain old fish aren't having it any easier. Tequesta tropical fishery owner Michael Breen says he began clearing thousands of floaters from his ponds a few days ago, and told MSNBC he expects the worst.

"If we have three consecutive days where we don't warm above 50°, the entire farm is dead no matter what we do," he said while pumps ran continuously to provide warm water to an estimated $500,000 worth of gills.

"We haven't been hit like this in a long time."

Backwards Weather To Get Wackier | NBC Miami

Miami will be under a freeze watch on Sunday

Speed skating on frozen Cambridgeshire Fens for the first time in 13 years - Telegraph

More than 200 spectators braved the bitter cold to watch the first speed skating races on the frozen Cambridgeshire Fens for 13 years.

Clean Energy: Sun, Wind, Subsidies - WSJ.com

Critics say subsidies of any kind waste taxpayer dollars. But even fans of renewable energy worry this public largesse is costing too much. They say renewable energy deserves subsidies to help it mature to the point where it can compete against fossil fuel. But they are concerned that society, in its haste to roll out wind turbines, solar panels and other forms of clean power, is spending billions of dollars without spurring as much renewable energy as it could. The recession has worsened the waste, they say, as governments increase subsidies to meet renewable-energy targets and create "green" jobs.
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Some renewable-energy subsidies have been "enormously wasteful," says Michael Liebreich, chief executive of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a London-based research firm.

Energy-Rich Venezuela Faces Power Crisis - WSJ.com

"In a certain way, Chávez is attacking capitalism with the orders on shopping malls," said Emilio Grateron, mayor of Caracas's Chacao municipality, a bastion of those opposed to Mr. Chávez. "By limiting the hours we can go to malls, he is trying to slowly take away liberties, to create absolute control over things such as shopping."

In Venezuela, whose capital Caracas is consistently ranked among the world's most dangerous cities, residents see shopping malls as one of few havens in the country.

The Carbon Market Blinks — $130b trainwreck slows « JoNova

For the last five years the carbon market has been doubling year after year. But in 2009, the exponential growth trajectory paused. Point Carbon issued a report this week estimating that the world wide market in carbon trading in 2009 totalled around $136 billion dollars, which is not much higher than the 2008 figure. After years of living in a rapacious bubble, prices are about 60% below the peaks of 2008, carbon traders are starting to peel out into other commodities, and the sails are looking decidedly flat on the Maxi Yacht known as Carbon-Credits Inc.