Climate consensus collapses in Senate - The Boston Globe

...last night the release of the bill was postponed indefinitely.
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As he renews his bid for bipartisan support, one of the senators Kerry seeks to recruit is Scott Brown, his Republican counterpart from the Bay State. “I’m very hopeful that he’ll see the virtues of the bill,’’ Kerry said, after meeting Thursday with Brown.

Is the Earth striking back? - CNN.com

The Earth shudders in Haiti. Then Chile. Then western China. Mexicali-Calexico. The Solomon Islands. Spain. New Guinea. And those are just the big ones, 6+ on the Richter scale, and just in 2010. And it's only April.

It's looking like this may be a long decade. And if we don't pull carbon out of the way we energize our lives soon, a small clump of our not-too-distant surviving descendants may find themselves, as Gaia scientist James Lovelock has direly predicted, like the first Icelanders: gathered on some near-barren hunk of rock near one of the still-habitable poles, trying yet anew to eke out a plan for human civilization.

Five myths about green energy

...before we wrap all our hopes -- and subsidies -- in it, let's take a hard look at some common misconceptions about what "green" means.

Volcano crisis: Sense vanishes in a puff of ash - Telegraph

The closure of our airspace casts a highly disturbing light on the way we are governed, says Christopher Booker.