Mammoths were just a type of elephant and the closely-related elephants of Africa and Asia seem to be doing just fine on a diet of warm-climate vegetation — but you can’t expect a Warmist to notice that!
An extraordinary article at Nature’s Great Beyond blog, reporting on a new paper by Judy Allen et al from the University of Durham: “Human hunters off the hook? Climate change caused wooly mammoths’ extinction, say scientists”.
Uh huh. So how do they know this?
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“The conscience-less dishonesty of the green movement”
This is the chilling story of how green activists targeted and finally brought down John Gay, the visionary former chairman of the Tasmanian timber company Gunns, damaged the company and helped wreck the state economy.
It contains a clear warning for the rest of Australia of what lies in wait as emboldened environmental activists move on to new bogus campaigns against their next targets: the “wild rivers” of Cape York at the expense of indigenous enterprise, the fishing industry, farming or, catastrophically, the coal industry.
If the Greenies dropped their objection to “sprawl”, their insistence on “dumb growth” and their opposition to land use changes, it might be different
ONE of the current social themes is that the consumer is to blame for wanting a big home. The new social order – excuse me if I get on my hobby horse for a second or two – wants us to buy something smaller and magically make our housing problems disappear.
Sadly, too few of those who clog up the blogosphere with urban commentary understand the economics of new housing or the decision-making process of a rational buyer.
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The big parties’ panicked abandonment of climate change has effortlessly transformed the Greens. They are now two days from winning more power than they’ve ever dreamed of.
The Greens are almost certain to win the balance of power in the Senate for the first time. This will make them the arbiter of any legislative disagreement between Labor and Liberal and put them in a prize negotiating position.
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A paper published yesterday in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, confirms other studies of tide gauge records which show that there has been no statistically significant acceleration in sea level rise over the past 100+ years, in contrast to statements of the IPCC and Al Gore. Sea levels have been rising naturally since the peak of the last major ice age 20,000 years ago, and the rate of rise began to decelerate about 8,000 years ago:
Taxes to pay for contentious climate change policies are set to treble over the next decade, soaring to more than £16billion a year. The hike is the equivalent of 4p on the current rate of income tax, a report from think tank Policy Exchange claimed.
By 2020 the tax take from green levies will be roughly equivalent to total public spending in England on both the police and fire services, the figures show.
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The UK web site Caithness Wind Farm Forum has published data on wind turbine accidents over the past few years.
It makes very interesting reading!
The Tasmanian Government has supported a proposal to put wind turbines on top of buildings in Hobart’s CBD.
The proposal has come from Robert Rockefeller who is a descendent of the prominent US family who built some of America’s greatest buildings.
Mr Rockefeller wants to put four 11-metre wind turbines on his Hobart office building to save about $100,000 of power a year.
Will Ideology or Science save the Victorian Environment?
Saturday August 28th 2010
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“But some of our richest solar, biomass, wind and geothermal resources are in remote regions — like central and northern Australia — and are not connected to our main networks.
That is why a re-elected Gillard Labor Government will invest $1 billion over the next decade in our electricity networks to connect Australia’s rich renewable resources to Australian homes.”
When will we see an end to this squandering of taxes and escalation of consumer charges.
Regards
Andrew
