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Corny capitalism
Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency issued another one of those announcements read exclusively by government bureaucrats and green policy wonks. The EPA decided to delay a decision to increase the concentration of ethanol legal in gasoline from 10% to 15%. So-called E15 fuel would have to wait for approval until November. It was [...]
Did NASA/GISS discover 30% more land in the Northern Hemisphere?
Some very strange statistical jiggery pokery from Jim Hansen’s outfit Frank Lansner has been a busy man, and he’s asking some very thought provoking questions. The Northern Hemisphere has a ratio of 40% land to 60% oceans, and the Hadley Met Centre seems to use a similar ratio (NH HadCrut Series: 58% ocean, 42% land). [...]
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Why Hybrids and Electric Cars are Currently Pointless Purchases
Have you ever noticed an ongoing trend occurring in the motoring world today? Right now car manufacturers around the world seem to be pretty worked up about trying to save planet Earth by producing electric cars and hybrids. Even sports cars like the Tesla Roadster have started to make themselves known and have found buyers. [...]
Well said, Lord Lawson!
“I have to observe that, far from assisting manufacturing, the Government, like their predecessor, appear to be hell-bent on clobbering it further by substantially increasing its energy costs in the name of an intellectually incoherent climate change policy. There is no time to elaborate on this today, but I commend to noble Lords the excellent [...]
The Bursting of the Green Energy Bubble?
By Andrew McKillop, ET Guest Columnist In late May, the accounting firm Ernst & Young reported that 7 out of 10 major global corporations will spend 0.5% or more of their earnings this year on “fighting” climate change, notably by investing in ways to cut their energy consumption. This trend is despite the massive setback [...]
Good move, Tony!
From the Herlad Sun, May 19, 2010. FUNDING to clean up coal and help poor countries cope with climate change will be slashed if the opposition wins the federal election. The Opposition released a hit list of programs it would pare back or axe entirely, including about $1.4 billion from a raft of green schemes. [...]
Britain still on track to get more nuclear power
Fears that the UK’s fight against climate change will be lost in the confusion of the Liberal-Conservative coalition were underlined yesterday when divisions between the two parties were exposed over nuclear power, renewable energy, airport expansion and offshore oil drilling.
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The new Hitler Jugend
The Hitler Youth abused the idealism of children too. So did Stalin’s “Young Pioneers”. Leftism never changes. They need credulity to get their lame assertions accepted The Inconvenient Youth website describes the initiative as “a community of teenagers taking action to address the climate crisis.” It’s a new twist on Al Gore’s other nonprofit, Climate [...]
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British electric car drivers fear being stranded with flat battery
The era of carefree motoring may soon be over, according to a study which reveals that drivers of the new generation of electric cars are plagued by nagging fears of being left stranded by a flat battery. They narrow their horizons and rarely venture far from home, abandoning the old notion of the freedom of [...]
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Australian conservative leader uses Roman and Medieval warm periods to discredit Warmism
And on the most recent polls, he will be the Prime Minister in less than a year TONY Abbott has urged primary school students to be sceptical about man-made climate change, saying it was warmer during the time of Julius Caesar and Jesus than it is now. The Opposition Leader, wrapping up a two-day visit [...]
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