Monthly Archives: June 2010
This cooling seems pretty global
Heavy snow for Europe’s glaciers plus more Southern Hemisphere resorts open. Not mentioned below is recent unusually cold weather in Western Australia # Up to 30cm (a foot) of new snow so far today around Queenstown’s ski areas. # Up to 50cm (20 inches) of fresh snow in the Alps. # Second Californian ski area [...]
New Australian PM won’t act on climate without consensus
Which she knows she won’t get. Clever: Makes her sound good to the ratbags but costs nothing Labor failed to convince the public a carbon tax was necessary, Prime Minister Julia Gillard says. Ms Gillard said she was concerned about the government’s proposed emissions trading scheme because community consensus had not been achieved. Asked if [...]
The FACTS about the Amazon rainforest
Excerpt from Willis Eschenbach However, all of this, all of the claims and counterclaims, and the models, and Dr. Lewis’s letter, and the cited scientific documents, all run aground on one ugly fact: The data shows no change in Amazon rainfall in a century of measurements
Amazongate: the missing evidence (Still missing)
The story of the IPCC’s claims about threats to the Amazon rainforest takes another bizarre turn Last week the beleaguered global warming lobby was exulting over what it took to be the best news it has had in a long time. A serious allegation, which last January rocked the authority of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel [...]
Wind Farm Information
Excellent information on wind farms is available from these sites: http://www.moorsydeactiongroup.org.uk/index.html http://www.warmwell.com/windfarms.html http://www.wind-watch.org/news/category/locations/europe/uk/ http://www.artistsagainstwindfarms.com/ http://www.artistsagainstwindfarms.blogspot.com/
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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. [...]
Spain’s Solar Industry Faces Bankruptcy
Spain’s government will cut the revenue of most existing solar-power plants by 30 percent, a move that may bankrupt hundreds of companies that produce electricity using photovoltaic panels, a local trade group said. The industry ministry, after negotiating with trade groups for weeks, plans to reduce the number of hours a day during which they [...]
A Very Convenient Split
By Alan Caruba For anyone who has followed Al Gore’s Green Brick Road to the land of Global Warming, there has to be more than a bit of schadenfreude—taking pleasure in other’s misfortunes—on hearing the news that he and his wife of forty years, Tipper, have separated. However, that feeling is fleeting for reasons that [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]