Climate Change Will Turn Off the Lights: New Study Finds Nuclear and Coal at Risk - CleanTechnica

A new study by Michelle T. H. van Vliet, John R. Yearsley, Fulco Ludwig, Stefan Vögele, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, and Pavel Kabat released in Nature Climate Change finds that climate change will impact the 91% of US and 78% of European power that is produced by thermal power plants. In the near future, power potential is expected to be reduced from 4 to 16%, with the possibility of a complete system collapse tripling or more.

Insecurity in unconventional oil - The Hill's Congress Blog

Scientists have determined that long-term fluctuations of war frequently follow cycles of temperature change.

Jackie Roberts: New Report Shows Investing in Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Is a Safe Bet for California

Over the next six months, the state of California will be deciding how to spend billions of dollars that may arise from the state's AB 32 cap and trade regulation for global warming pollution. This report shows that California's efforts to curb emissions in the past have resulted in positive growth in several key sectors -- meaning we should be investing every dollar we can to cut greenhouse gases because California firms are more likely than not to be the beneficiaries of new demand for solutions.

Communities should be 'bribed' to accept more wind farms, says MP - Green Living - Environment - The Independent

Dislike wind farms? Then the BBC thinks you're both mad and a NIMBY | Mail Online

‘Are you a believer in the whole theory of man-made global warming?’

So sneered the BBC’s Evan Davis this morning, in a short but brutal inquisition of Martin Hill, the leader of Lincolnshire County Council.

Mr Hill’s crime – for that’s certainly how it was being treated on Radio Four’s Today programme – was to propose plans to make it harder to gain planning consent for wind farms.

He was not, as Mr Davis’ question so deliberately suggested, some sort of lunatic climate change denier or flat-earther. Nor was he what the BBC would call a NIMBY, meaning ‘not in my back yard’.