Monthly Archives: May 2010
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. [...]
Green/Left lies never stop
“South Pole experiences warmest year on record in 2009″… NOT! This is from the Antarctic Sun, a publication of the United States Antarctic Program and the National Science Foundation… Highs and lows South Pole experiences warmest year on record in 2009 The average temperature at the South Pole was a bone-chilling minus 47.9 degrees Celsius [...]
Posted in Climate, International
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Britain’s Con-Lib climate change and energy policy is a looming disaster
The Cameron-Clegg axis has demonstrated its lack of critical faculties in united fashion when David Cameron and Chris Huhne visited the Department for Energy and Climate Change. The Cleggerons’ slavish devotion to the creed of climate change has been put before the need to properly tackle environmental problems such as pollution and deforestation.
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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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A few questions for climate alarmists
The new Kerry-Lieberman climate bill mandates a 17% reduction in US carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. It first targets power plants that provide reliable, affordable electricity for American homes, schools, hospitals, offices and factories. Six years later, it further hobbles the manufacturing sector itself.
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Talking Climate in the Windy City
Roger L. Simon There must be some irony in holding a climate conference in Chicago, but I’m not sure what it is. Nevertheless, something close to eight hundred people have assembled at the Marriott on the Magnificent Mile to hear more than 70 scientists, economists and other experts opine on whether our globe is heating [...]
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People get the power in Coalition wind policy
BY ERIC PARNIS 14 May, 2010 LOCAL communities will have more power in deciding the location of wind farms under a Coalition government, says state opposition leader Ted Baillieu.Mr Baillieu said that if elected in November, a Coalition government would restore fairness and certainty in the wind farm planning system and give communities a key [...]
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Electricity will cost twice as much as power plants
Cape Wind rate shock Electricity will cost twice as much as power plants By Jay Fitzgerald The controversial Cape Wind project will cost taxpayers and ratepayers more than $2 billion to build – three times its original estimate. That colossal cost is the driving force behind the sky-high electric rates it plans to charge Massachusetts [...]
Posted in International, Wind Farms
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How to Expose Post-Normal Junk Climate Science in Five Steps
By John O’Sullivan The controversy surrounding Virginia Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli’s investigation of alleged climate science fraudster, Michael Mann, will just not go away. The amount of hot air generated presents more risk of global warming than any greenhouse gas. But if we take the heat out of the argument for a moment and just [...]
Posted in ClimateGate, International
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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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