U.S., Germany walk back 1M electric vehicle goal | Washington Free Beacon

The Obama administration pumped roughly $5 billion into the electric vehicle industry. Sales are underwhelming despite the efforts, barely reaching 5 percent of the president’s target. Fewer than 50,000 electric vehicles were sold between the start of 2011 and the end of September.

Rather than admit its goal was unrealistic, the Obama administration subtly moved the goal posts and declared success.

In climate puzzle for crops, ancient tree offers clues - Khaleej Times

FULUFJALLET, Sweden - On a windswept Swedish mountain, a 10,000-year-old spruce with a claim to be the world’s oldest tree is getting a new lease of life thanks to global warming, even as many plants are struggling.
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“There will be no nice wine from Sweden this year,” lamented Lauri Pappinen, one of a handful of new wine producers on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic, where grapes failed to mature after a cool spring followed by mildew in a wet summer.

The failure of Pappinen’s 2012 harvest was the first since he started producing a decade ago as an experiment on the same latitude as southern Alaska or Siberia.

Niche Modeling » The Creation of Consensus via Administrative Abuse

So consensus is ultimately created via administrative abuse!

Now its possible to see why blogs porporting to represent an authoritative consensus such as RealClimate, SkepticalScience and LewsWorld must delete objections

U.S. Winter Seen Harsher Than Last Year, Boosting Demand - Bloomberg

The coming U.S. winter will probably be cooler than a year ago, boosting demand for heating fuels such as natural gas, a panel of forecasters said.