Offshore Wind Slump Means No Firm Orders for GE, Siemens - Bloomberg

Sales of offshore wind turbines collapsed in the first half, a sign the power industry and its financiers are struggling to meet the ambitions of leaders from Angela Merkel in Germany to Britain’s David Cameron.

The not-so-great 'Green Fleet': President Obama’s skewed national defense priorities - The Hill's Congress Blog

[Inhofe] This ludicrous pricetag is not surprising: through Congressional oversight efforts, we found that in 2009, the Navy paid an outrageous $424 per gallon for 20,000 gallons of renewable diesel, and in December 2011, the Navy purchased 450,000 gallons of biofuel for $12 million, equaling about $27 a gallon. The Navy is not the only service being subject to this great greening agenda: last month, the Air Force bought 11,000 gallons of alcohol-to-jet fuel at $59 a gallon, twice as much per gallon as what the Navy was forced to spend. And all of this is being done by the Obama administration while the president guts our military.

A Visit to the World's Most Remote Antarctic Outposts With Google 'Street' View - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic

when photographers traveled to Antarctica during the Austral summer this past year, temperatures hovered around 60 below zero

North Carolina Ups the Ante on Climate Protests « It’s Getting Hot In Here

In case you haven’t seen it yet, the North Carolina Legislature has ratified a law that makes trespass on a power generating utility property a felony.

This is how effective direct action in the climate movement is becoming.