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General Motors Co. (GM), which introduced the Volt in 2010, said its 2014 Chevrolet Spark plug- in can travel 82 miles (132 kilometers) when fully charged, in its latest attempt to attract new customers for green cars.

The Spark can be fully refueled in about seven hours using a 240-volt charger

GM Says Plug-In Electric Spark Has 82-Mile Range on Full Charge – Bloomberg

That is awesome. You drive 82 miles in a couple of hours, and then wait seven hours to recharge (assuming you can find a 240 volt charger.) That works out to 9 MPH, so you could drive coast to coast in only two or three months.

And it runs off clean burning electricity!

h/t to Tom Nelson

(I average almost double that speed on my bicycle.)

Williams-Sonoma has pulled pressure cookers from their shelves in the aftermath of the Boston attack.

Williams-Sonoma Pulls Pressure Cookers Off Shelves ‘Out of Respect’ | CNS News

Police in Louisville are banning items including backpacks and duffel bags from this year’s Kentucky Derby.

Kentucky Derby bans backpacks – The Washington Post

4. El Niño Becomes Permanent

If El Niño–a periodic disruption of the ocean and atmosphere in the tropical Pacific–becomes the average state of the region’s climate as global warming progresses, widespread shifts in precipitation patterns (above, homes slide into the sea during El Niño storms in Pacifica, California) will ensue, said a majority of scientists who responded to a climate survey released on March 16, 2009

PHOTOS: Five Global Warming “Tipping Points”

Experts now say that current bad weather is due missing Arctic ice, which is right at the thirty year area mean.

03 Apr 1963 – WEATHER ‘NOT AFFECTED’ BY ATOM BLASTS

denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf

PLAN TO MELT THE NORTH POLE AND IMPROVE THE WORLD’S CLIMATE.

06 Nov 1913 – PLAN TO MELT THE NORTH POLE. AND IMPROVE THE WOR…

Expert: Arctic polar cap may disappear this summer_English_Xinhua

One year ago, Berwyn announced that pine beetles were thriving and were going to destroy Colorado.

Global Warming: Pine beetles thriving at higher elevations | Summit County Citizens Voice

Fast forward to the present ….

March 31, 2013

By Bob Berwyn

SUMMIT COUNTY — The mountain pine beetle epidemic has run its course in the Colorado high country

Environment: Are Colorado’s majestic high country spruce forests next on the bark beetle hit list? | Summit County Citizens Voice

American Institutions and Ecological Ideals Scientific and literary views of our expansionary life-style are converging. 
Leo Marx

Barry Commoner, for
example, gave a widely reported speech
describing the deadly pollution of Cali-
fornia water reserves as a result of the
excessive use of nitrates as fertilizer.
This method of increasing agricultural
productivity, he said, is so disruptive
of the chemical balance of soil and
water that within a generation it could
poison irreparably the water supply of
the whole area. The New York Times
ran the story under the headline: "Ecol-
ogist Sees U.S. on Suicidal Course"
(4). But it was the demographers and
population biologists, worried about
behavior even less susceptible to regu-
latory action, who used the most por-
tentous rhetoric. "We must realize that
unless we are extremely lucky," Paul
Ehrlich told an audience in the sum-
mer of 1969, "everybody will disap-
pear in a cloud of blue steam in 20
years" (5).

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