Ford Boosts Investment for Battery-Powered Cars - Bloomberg

Ford Motor Co. (F), debuting five battery-powered models this year, is spending $135 million to design electric-drive parts and double battery testing capacity.

Ford is moving more battery research in-house and has hired 60 engineers in the last year, bringing its electric-vehicle engineering staff to more than 1,000, according to a statement today.

Will the UK have the climate of Madeira by 2060, as Costing the Earth suggests? | Carbon Brief

the primary thing we've taken away from the program is the desire to go to Madeira on holiday.

Temperature rise [from what temperature?] 'slows economy in poor countries' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

the researchers estimated that a one degree Celsius rise in temperature in a given year had reduced economic growth by about 1.3 percentage points on average

Obama Shunned by Iowa Voters During 3-day Tour

Despite referencing the highest temperatures Iowa has seen on record during a survey of drought-stricken corn crops, Obama did not mention climate change once.

Fighting global warming was one of the president's key policy promises in 2008, along with healthcare and financial regulation reform. He achieved the latter two, but legislation to curb greenhouse gases failed in the U.S. Senate.