Al Fin: Peak Oil: Meet Sophisticated Coal and Biomass to Liquids

There is more than 250 billion tons of recoverable U.S. coal reserves – equivalent to an estimated 800 billion barrels of oil, compared to Saudi Arabia’s proven reserves of 260 billion barrels

How the green Queen will screw her subjects – Telegraph Blogs

The Queen has spent £1.8 million pounds on an Archimedes Screw, which will – in theory – provide lashings of environmentally friendly power to Windsor Castle by harnessing the mighty tidal power of the River Thames. Of course, in reality it will do nothing of the sort, which is why I was originally going to title this story "Elderly Lady Mugged By Climate Cowboys."

Wind farms: the monuments to lunacy that will be left to blot the landscape - Telegraph

If the Government really wishes to make a useful change to our planning laws, it should insist that every planning permission to build wind turbines should include a requirement that, after their 25-year life, they must be removed at their owners’ expense. Alas, by that time the companies will all have gone bankrupt, and we shall be left with a hideous legacy as a monument to one of the greatest lunacies of our time.

Exxon Makes Billion-Dollar Bet Climate Change is Real, Here Now and Going to Get Worse But Keeps Funding Deniers | ThinkProgress

According to reports, Exxon has just signed an extensive deal with Rosneft, the Russian state oil company, to develop promising offshore oil and gas deposits in the Arctic Ocean.

- Bishop Hill blog - New paper supports Svensmark hypothesis

The results look good for Svensmark's ideas.

The results [are] hard (impossible?) to explain by any mechanism except an influence of cosmic rays on cloud formation.