Daily Archives: January 22, 2012

UK: MPs From All Parties In Bid To Halt Costly Wind Farms

A new cross-party campaign group is to be set up in Westminster to demand the Government drops its support for thousands more wind farms Continue reading

Tucker: Environmentalism and the Leisure Class

As the Forest Service used to say, the person who built his mountain cabin last year is an environmentalist. The person who wants to build one this year is a developer. Continue reading

How fracking lies triumphed

A much-needed source of energy has been unjustly maligned Continue reading

Hansen and assorted wackos seek ‘exposé’ of GWPF

“Leading climate scientists have given their support to a Freedom of Information request seeking to disclose who is funding the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a London-based climate sceptic thinktank chaired by the former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson.” Continue reading

“The climate system is not well enough understood to … “

Such a promising statement. Unfortunately it comes from Caldeira, Pongratz and Carnegie’s Playstation® Climatology games unit Continue reading

All you need are large enough fudge factors

Researchers claim to have solved the ‘missing energy’ discrepancy between atmospheric and ocean temperature measurements, while at the same time showing that the Earth continued to accumulate heat during the last decadeContinue reading

Hansen: Skeptics guilty of ‘crimes against humanity and nature’

Hansen also says that the climate system is “rapidly deteriorating.” Continue reading

Denmark pays neighbors to take excess wind energy

Actually Danish wind energy is usually most abundant when it’s least useful and consequently sold for near-zero return to neighbors while energy when it’s needed is bought from those neighbors generated by their hydro, coal-fired thermal and nuclear plants. While Denmark’s wind generation figures look good on superficial examination Denmark’s “wind miracle” is actually a wind mirage Continue reading

Scare: Unprecedented, man-made trends in ocean’s acidity

This new Nature Climate Change study debunks itself. Continue reading

British MPs Form All Party Group To Stop Wind Farms

“At last Westminster has caught up with public opinion that wind farms are heavily subsidised, inefficient, expensive and they destroy landscapes.” Continue reading

Hansen: Youth should be ‘angry’ over climate

Hansen addressed plungers before the 7th annnal Polar Bear Plunge. Continue reading

Report: More states ordering disclosure of fracking chemicals

“The chemical-disclosure issue has become a proxy for public apprehension with all aspects of hydraulic fracturing…” Continue reading

U.S. military: Global warming is real

A 350.org radical points out how the military has been subverted by the greens reds. Continue reading

Beijing releases key air pollution data; early results seem low compared to US Embassy results

“What has been so powerful is that people are skeptical, and I think rightly skeptical,” about the government’s descriptions of data, he said.” Continue reading

Times-Picayune celebrates DDT myth as history

The brown pelican was not endangered by DDT. Continue reading

Boston Herald: Rep. Markey’s gas pains

“What has Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) got against good sense?” Continue reading

Teaching against climate change deniers

“The tragic aspect of all such eco-brainwashing is that the scientific method is being bastardized as our students are being told what to think, not how to think.” Continue reading