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Another failed green car | JunkScience.com

Hybrid sports car maker Fisker Automotive owes the DOE — that’s us taxpayers — $192 million but no one wants to buy the troubled company. It hasn’t built a car in over a year, according to Reuters, but has gone through $529 million in government funds. And that’s just one example of the government’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing loan program….

Missing Heat Disappears Again – Arctic Gains One Million km^2 Of Ice In 15 Minutes | Real Science

Is the Internet Good for the Climate? - NYTimes.com

After the talk, I note how Twitter reactions to my talk and my music include those of people disputing that greenhouse-driven climate change poses a big risk

White House solar panels being installed this week

This is not the first time solar panels have graced the White House’s roof: President Jimmy Carter had 32 installed in the late 1970s but President Ronald Reagan removed them in 1986. Two grass-roots campaigns lobbied Obama at the start of his first term to restore the panels.