'Green Bonds' Seen Among Europe's Options for Paying Hefty, $3.93 Trillion Bill for Clean Energy -- Study - NYTimes.com

With time ticking away for Europe to meet its targets for slashing greenhouse gas emissions, banks could end up securing massive amounts of debt to finance the transition to clean energy. Issuing "green bonds" is one mechanism they could use.

Art Horn: Big Snow Storms are Weather, Not Climate | Climate Realists

Extreme weather will come and go with all its amazing variety and social impacts, it always has and always will. The answer to Bill’s question is perhaps best addressed by Mark Twain. He said in 1876 “Now, as to the size of the weather in New England - lengthways, I mean. It is utterly disproportioned to the size of that little country. Half the time, when it is packed as full as it can stick, you will see that New England weather sticking out beyond the edges and projecting around hundreds and hundreds of miles over the neighboring states (New York). She can’t hold a tenth part of her weather. You can see cracks all about, where she has strained herself trying to do it.” That about says it all Bill.