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Today: At Least He Didn’t Take a Private Jet - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com
Mr. Massa had driven the Equinox from his hometown, Corning, down to Washington without using a drop of gasoline or producing any emissions — at least that was supposed to be the message....But was the trip as green as the photo suggests?

Not really. The range of the Equinox Fuel Cell vehicle is about 200 miles, according to G.M., and the distance from Corning to Washington is roughly 280 miles, which means Mr. Massa would have had to refill the tank with hydrogen somewhere along the way — but there are no hydrogen stations on the most direct route from Corning to Washington.

The solution: two Equinoxes.

Carolyn Markey, a G.M. spokeswoman, said Mr. Massa drove one Equinox from Corning to Harrisburg, Pa., where a second Equinox was waiting for him. He then drove it to Washington, where the above photo was snapped.

In order to deliver and retrieve the Equinox Fuel Cell vehicles, Ms. Markey said, two Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid S.U.V.’s were used as tow vehicles: one to tow the first Equinox back up to Honeoye Falls, and another to tow the second Equinox, which originated in Washington, up to Harrisburg for the trip back down. So essentially, the entire 280-mile trip was also made by a Tahoe Hybrid, which gets about 2
Today: Hot weather could be as dangerous as freezing winters, warn forecasters - Telegraph
It may seem incongruous given the current cold snap, but meteorologists are warning the Government that given the rising global temperature it needs to consider whether to start issuing hot weather payments to keep poorer families cool.
Freezing temperatures cause sea to freeze - Telegraph
Charles Chapman, marina manager of Parkstone Yacht Club, on the edge of Sandbanks, said: “
I have been here for more than 20 years and I cannot remember this ever happening before. The edge of the sea is frozen along the surf line.”Markey getting top energy post in House
In a telephone interview, Pelosi lauded Markey's ``knowledge, experience, judgment and ability to communicate on this subject so effectively. Combined with his chairmanship of the select committee on global warming, ``this makes him really a powerhouse on the issue of global warming and energy independence,'' she said.
Today: UK: THE DAY THE SEA STOOD STILL (From Bournemouth Echo)
And, in scenes reminiscent of the big freeze of 1962-3, a half-mile stretch of the shoreline and the inner harbour were covered in ice.
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The plummeting temperatures have earned this winter a place in the weather record books, alongside the great winter of 1962/3 and the blizzard of 1978.

The winter of 1962/3 was the coldest since 1740 and saw the sea freeze in Poole Harbour, with seagulls stuck to the ice.Alberta: icy weather, warm pools
To deal with the cold, Calgarians did things that would make greenies explode.

Heading to Safeway to pick up a few groceries? Leave the car running and lock the doors. Going to be really cold outside? Use your remote car starter. One Calgarian I met hit the start button every four hours, getting his car chugging (Toronto's bylaw officers would call that idling) for 15 minutes.

"The car is never cold," he boasted.

Road salt? Forget about it. Way too cold. It's sand all the way here. The good thing about the weather is it does test the boasts of anti-freeze manufacturers. Good to -40C? We'll see.
The Free
Today: Business Spectator - And the Carbon Cup begins...
...Stuart Eizenstat, Bill Clinton’s deputy secretary of the Treasury and Al Gore’s lead official at the Kyoto negotiations, has told a conference in Brussels that (1)
it is unlikely that the new administration can pass emissions trading legislation before 2010, (2) this will make it difficult for the new president to negotiate a new treaty in Copenhagen and (3) the feelings evident in the US Senate 95-0 vote against the concept of a Kyoto agreement that ensured Clinton never sought official approval of the treaty “have not dissipated.”

“When it comes to drawing up (US) domestic laws on capping emissions, the issue will be cost, cost, cost,” adds the veteran bureaucrat, “and emerging economies will need to agree to reduce their emissions.”Baby, It's Cold Outside
...The reason I mention Al's co-religionists at the Hadley Centre is that they have come to realize that computer projections of global warming have been wrong. Carbon dioxide levels have indeed increased, but not temperatures. So bundle up, Al. Last year, in many parts of the world, snowfalls reached levels not seen in decades. Th
Today: Hot Air: Comment » UK starts paying subsidies for record cold
Simple really,
if the current solar trends continue, it will soon be so cold that Al Gore will be the only person left on the planet who doesn’t think Al Gore is a kook.

The quite sun is going to cause us a big problem when the growing season shortens to the point that crops cannot mature. 2009 may be the first year that happens.Vietnam | Northern region feels chill during Tet festival - Northern region feels chill during Tet festival
People in the northern region are likely to welcome the traditional lunar New Year festival (Tet) in bitter cold weather as the region is forecast to brace itself for two or three frosty spells through the end of January, according to the National Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Centre.
Guy with huge stake in CO2 hysteria promotes Gore's scam to Congress
"America increasingly gets it about the consequences of climate change," said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. "Somehow this building seems to be sort of the last redoubt of people who don't seem