Keystone Protesters Heading to White House (SF Chronicle)
New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota
New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota (NPR)
Consumer Electronics Outrank Refrigerators As Contributors To Climate Change
Consumer Electronics Outrank Refrigerators As Contributors To Climate Change (Chem & Eng News)
Greens Are Justifiably Mad About the Oil Sands Pipeline. But Sitting Out 2012 Elections Would Be Insane
Greens Are Justifiably Mad About the Oil Sands Pipeline (Brian Walsh — TIME)
Natural Gas: Cleaner, Not Cooler
Natural Gas Boom Could Spur Energy Demand, Obliterating Climate Benefits (Economist)
Would Cutting Oil Company Tax Subsidies Raise Gas Prices?
Economist Gib Metcalf: Cutting Oil Co. Tax Subsidies Would Not Affect Gasoline Prices (TIME blog)
Pro-Fossil Fuels Alaska Sen. Begich Unveils Reverse-Carbon Tax
Pro-Fossil Fuels Alaska Sen. Begich Unveils Reverse-Carbon Tax (The Hill)
Carnivore's Dilemma
Carnivore’s Dilemma (NYT)
As More Eat Meat, a Bid to Cut Emissions
As More Eat Meat, a Bid to Cut Emissions (NY Times)
Carrying Coals to Newcastle (Global Warming Version)
The photo shows a helicopter delivering snow from a nearby mountain pass to a low-lying ski area for a race to be held Jan. 26-28 in Austria. If you look carefully you can see the suspended net dropping the white stuff on the barren hillside.
The ski race organizers spent $389,000 bringing snow from high to low elevations for an entire week, the New York Times reported on Jan. 19:
If even half the cost went for fuel, and if the fuel cost $3 a gallon, then the aerial ski portage consumed 65,000 gallons of petrol, roughly what 100 SUV’s would burn in a year. To enable a ski competition … incapacitated by global warming!