one sentence round ups of environmental news, and a math lesson.

*Germans put up more PV solar energy capacity in the last 2 months of the year than the US did all year and installed at 1/2 the price of systems in the US.
*The Attorney General of Virginia Ken Cuccinelli lost the case charging climate scientist Mann with fraud in his research has spent scarce tax dollars to put it before the state Supreme Court.
*Scientist in China warn Global Warming is reducing food production and extremely grim ecological conditions are on the way.
*51% of German renewable generating capacity owned by homeowners and farmers.
*China capped carbon emissions in 5 large cities and 2 provinces.
*Prominent MIT researcher Kerry Emanuel spoke to a conservative group recently and since is a target of cyberbullying, hate mail, threats on his family, pressure on his employer and associates, and much of it comes from the same people who launched the swift boat smears on Kerry.
*Airlines flying to England must charge a carbon tax according to how much that airplane pollutes, the airlines are furious saying passengers will stop flying, last week Ryan was the first to impose this forbidding new charge, 38 cents per person, the industry says it will cost the public billions.

So what do we have here?  Economy of scale makes solar panels cheap enough that socialist europeans can buy them and become more independent and get low cost energy for 20-30 years.  We also have the most populace nation in the world informing it's people that science has information that needs to be used whilst in the US there is a war on science.  And last, the travel industry who will yank you around for a few dollars, hide charges, lie about delays, charge $7 for a tiny tiny little wee bottle of wine, cancel a flight then close the customer service window is now eager to complete our education by explaining that 38 cents repeated enough times adds up to a billion, wow, is that true of $20 dollar luggage charges too?