» ClimateGate: UVA’Getting its Nixon On’ - Big Government

I think it was Thomas Jefferson who first said ‘Laws are great, in theory, but…’

As his other project, the University of Virginia, gets further backed into a corner on the ‘Hockey Stick’ records it is spending upwards of a half a million dollars to keep from the public (even though the public paid for and has every right to them), we now see what Charlottesville radio host Joe Thomas of WCHV likes to note in this context as “UVA getting its Nixon on”. This time with a little help from its friends outraged that laws would be applied to the academic class:

Why Won't Climate Denialists Stop Attacking This Man? | Environment | Change.org

Eight months ago, in a post about Cuccinelli’s witch hunt against Mann, I quoted the beleaguered climate scientist as saying: "I don't doubt for a minute that the climate-change deniers will continue their campaign of disinformation and smear. That's all they've got left."

Oh, how right he was.

Danish Wind Company Vestas Wins Masdar's Zayed Future Energy Prize in Abu Dhabi - Ecocentric - TIME.com

"The winner is an organization that has embodied every aspect of innovation," said Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the leader of the Zayed Prize jury this year. "Through innovation, imagination and persistence, Vestas put wind on the radar screen."

Still, does an established company like Vestas really represent future energy, considering that wind turbines are almost as mature a technology as oil or natural gas?