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...will low-carbon enterprises be abandoned as capital floods to safer, established industries and the heat goes off global warming, or is it, as Brenninkmeijer still insists, "the business of the century"? The signs from Abu Dhabi say we could see both. For all the excitement generated here by President Barack Obama, who pledged in his inaugural speech to "harness the sun and the winds and the soil," the short-term outlook for renewables is as grim as it is for other capital-intensive industries, if not more so. (See the 50 best inventions...
...Your study predicts mass cooling. With all the heat and radioactivity of the explosions, why wouldn't nuclear war warm the planet...
...nothing to do with the radioactivity of the explosions - although that would be devastating to nearby populations. The explosions would set off massive fires, which would produce plumes of black smoke. The sun would heat the smoke and lift it into the stratosphere - that's the layer above the troposphere, where we live - where there is no rain to clear it out. It would be blown across the globe and block the sun. The effect would not be a nuclear winter, but it would be colder than the little ice age [in the 17th and 18th centuries] and the change...
...Geithner's move to Treasury, though probably not for very long. The unexpected indictment of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and the circus that followed introduced a minefield that wasn't on anyone's transition road map, while the choice of Rick Warren to lead an Inaugural prayer generated unanticipated heat from Obama's base...
...wasn't a popular view back then. "He had taken a lot of heat" for the position inside the Fed, a colleague says. Some regional Fed presidents thought he was excessively gloomy. As an insider put it, they thought Geithner had been captured by his constituents - the heads of the largest banks and investment firms in New York, most of whom were leveraged to the hilt and deeply vulnerable to turmoil in the mortgage-backed-securities market. But Geithner's view prevailed that week with his boss, Ben Bernanke. A few weeks later, the Fed slashed its key interest rate...