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Colorado Tea Party candidate Dan Maes: Bike-sharing is a "well-disguised" effort aimed at "converting Denver into a United Nations community."

Three months ago, Denver Mayor and Colorado gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper (D) helped start an ambitious bike share program that has already attracted 14,000 memberships and been a big success.  As TP reports, one of Hickenlooper's opponents in the Governor's race sees something sinister lurking behind the mayor's policies:

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding...

Energy and Global Warming News for August 4th: GM boosts output of the Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle; DuPont says it can boost lithium-ion battery power, lifetime, and safety; How 'green' are those hiking boots?

GM Boosts Output of the Chevrolet Volt Electric Vehicle

The buzz about electric vehicles (EVs) recently grew louder, as General Motors Corporation (GM) announced on July 30 that it will increase U.S. production capacity of its new Chevrolet Volt by 50% next year. Citing strong interest, GM said it will boost the number of units from 30,000 to 45,000 in 2012.

The announcement came as President Obama toured the Detroit-Hamtramck facility where the Volt is assembled. Earlier in the week, on...

A Way Forward: Climate Hope in a Prison of Despair

Holman, Despair of the Defenders of Jerusalem, Wikimedia

Now that the prospects for comprehensive climate legislation with a carbon price and/or serious clean energy funding are off the table for the foreseeable future, that really leaves only one strategy for substantial emissions reductions — the direct method.

Energy economics expert and long-time guest blogger Craig Severance, has a review of what might be possible, which I excerpt below.  The full piece can be found on his blog.

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Hottest* July in RSS satellite record, record floods swamp Pakistan, U.S. set 1480 temperature records in past two months, and 2010 breaks 2007 record for most nations setting all-time temperature records - Hell and High Water hits hard as Time asks: Will

"What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate."

That's Dmitri Medvedev, President of a country that has been mired in even more disinformation about global warming than ours, as Time notes.  On Friday, Medvedev said that in 14 regions of Russia, "practically everything is burning":

And so we...

Hottest* July in RSS satellite record, record floods swamp Pakistan, U.S. set 1480 temperature records in past two months, and 2010 breaks 2007 record for most nations setting all-time temperature records - Hell and High Water hits hard as Time asks: Will

"What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate."

That's Dmitri Medvedev, President of a country that has been mired in even more disinformation about global warming than ours, as Time notes.  On Friday, Medvedev said that in 14 regions of Russia, "practically everything is burning":

And so we...

Hottest* July in RSS satellite record, record floods swamp Pakistan, U.S. set 1480 temperature records in past two months, and 2010 breaks 2007 record for most nations setting all-time temperature records - Hell and High Water hits hard as Time asks: Will

"What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate."

That's Dmitri Medvedev, President of a country that has been mired in even more disinformation about global warming than ours, as Time notes.  On Friday, Medvedev said that in 14 regions of Russia, "practically everything is burning":

And so we...

Hottest* July in RSS satellite record, record floods swamp Pakistan, U.S. set 1480 temperature records in past two months, and 2010 breaks 2007 record for most nations setting all-time temperature records - Hell and High Water hits hard as Time asks: Will

"What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate."

That's Dmitri Medvedev, President of a country that has been mired in even more disinformation about global warming than ours, as Time notes.  On Friday, Medvedev said that in 14 regions of Russia, "practically everything is burning":

And so we...

Hottest* July in RSS satellite record, record floods swamp Pakistan, U.S. set 1480 temperature records in past two months, and 2010 breaks 2007 record for most nations setting all-time temperature records - Hell and High Water hits hard as Time asks: Will

"What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate."

That's Dmitri Medvedev, President of a country that has been mired in even more disinformation about global warming than ours, as Time notes.  On Friday, Medvedev said that in 14 regions of Russia, "practically everything is burning":

And so we...

Hottest* July in RSS satellite record, record floods swamp Pakistan, U.S. set 1480 temperature records in past two months, and 2010 breaks 2007 record for most nations setting all-time temperature records - Hell and High Water hits hard as Time asks: Will

"What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate."

That's Dmitri Medvedev, President of a country that has been mired in even more disinformation about global warming than ours, as Time notes.  On Friday, Medvedev said that in 14 regions of Russia, "practically everything is burning":

And so we...

Hottest* July in RSS satellite record, record floods swamp Pakistan, U.S. set 1480 temperature records in past two months, and 2010 breaks 2007 record for most nations setting all-time temperature records - Hell and High Water hits hard as Time asks: Will

"What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate."

That's Dmitri Medvedev, President of a country that has been mired in even more disinformation about global warming than ours, as Time notes.  On Friday, Medvedev said that in 14 regions of Russia, "practically everything is burning":

And so we...