Former Maldives president risks arrest after trial boycott - Channel NewsAsia

Nasheed, a climate change campaigner who was tortured in jail during Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's three-decade rule of the Maldives, insists he was threatened by armed rebel officers and forced to announce his resignation on television.

But Mohamed Waheed, Nasheed's deputy who became president, has rejected claims his former boss was forced to resign and that he is the target of a vendetta.

Apart from the criminal case, Nasheed also faces two defamation suits filed against him by Police Commissioner Abdulla Riyaz and by Defence Minister Mohamed Nazim.

50 Months To Green Armageddon « Tory Aardvark

You can always tell when another doomed UN COP meeting is weeks away, the Climate of Fear returns, and this year Fear is making a comeback, big time, there are just 50 months left to save the world or we will all die, horribly in some environmentalist longed for global calamity.

Fear has always been central to the whole Anthropogenic Global Warming boondoggle, back in 2009, the Scottish incompetent Gordon Brown, who at the time was destroying Britain as Prime Minister, darkened our TV screens with his Gollum like presence to announce that there were just “50 days left to save the world“.

Then of course there is Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN IPCC who has been predicting our imminent doom, albeit on an ever shifting end date for years now:

In November 2007 Pachauri said “If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future.“

War on coal comes to Virginia; Kaine would ax Virginia energy jobs - Utility Products Magazine

Tim Kaine is scared of his record on coal, and for good reason. As governor, he appointed an official Climate Change Commission and endorsed its recommendations, including draconian state-level restrictions on fossil fuel use. He testified on Capitol Hill in support of cap-and-trade energy taxes, which he continued to push enthusiastically when he became chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Now, with President Obama's war on coal in full swing, Mr. Kaine is styling himself pro-coal. Virginia voters shouldn't be fooled.

Mr. Kaine recently took to the air - literally - with a TV ad of himself in a helicopter, talking about how he brought a new coal plant to St. Paul, Va. Yet the New York Times reported in "more than a dozen interviews in St. Paul, no one was familiar with any role that Mr. Kaine had in getting the plant going." Environmental engineer Jeff Kite said, "I did the permitting, and I don't remember that."

New California laws set up framework for spending cap-and-trade revenue - Around the valley - Modbee.com

The state can't plow the revenue into its deficit-ridden general fund. If it did, Faber said, cap and trade would be considered a tax and would have to be approved by a two-thirds supermajority of both houses of the Legislature.