Weather, Water, Energy 3-21-07

• President Gore told Congress what it had to do to have any chance against global warming and challenged it to do the right thing for our posterity. The legislators with brains took it seriously. Not clear yet if that constitutes a majority in either house.
• Meanwhile, Boehner and the other morons in the House have shunned any Repubs who understand the issue in order to fill the House select committee on energy and warming with Inhovs.
• John Edwards at least puts Gore's call high on his Pres campaign agenda.
• While we fiddle, Japan assumes world leadership.
• Tyson Foods cranks out as much greenhouse gas as an auto manufacturer? This story convinced me.
• With rocketing power bills, lawmakers in a half dozen states are scaring up that old boogeyman--regulation. Which coincidentally corresponds with more effective and certain outcomes in most cases. As folks in AL are figuring out in dealing with pollution of its water resources and WA and OR work to combine hydro and wind "synergies." While NE grapples with the property rights associated with the development of wind power in the state. And LA is at least pulling folks together to plan and plot its global warming future.
• Very good and thorough overview of the current state and future of fuel cells and their contribution to our energy demands here.
• Finally, we started with logic, common sense, and proactive leadership and we'll end with it. This time from a world meterological conference in Spain that reaffirms the human role in global warming and the human role in dealing with it. Remember that the next time the media haul in a meatball "meteorologist" or two to proclaim the world in peachy keen.