As oceans warm due to climate change, water layers will mix less and affect the microbes and plankton that pump carbon out of the atmosphere – but researchers say it’s still unclear whether these processes will further increase global warming or decrease it. Continue reading
Daily Archives: February 9, 2012
Ocean microbe communities changing, but long-term environmental impact is unclear
Posted in Climate Change
Trying to make warming responsible for 400+ cold deaths
“Some climatologists expect such winters to become increasingly common as Northern Hemisphere warming leads to more severe northern continental winters.” Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
2C warming goal now ‘optimistic’ – French scientists
Optimistic my big ears! We have absolutely no hope at all of raising the planet’s temperature by 2 °C, no matter how hard we try. And despite the obvious life-benefits of a warmer world it is doubtful the returns would justify the effort involved in the attempt. Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change
Warning on ‘dead’ EU carbon market ‘meddling’
Europe’s largest employers’ group has warned against meddling in the carbon market to prop up sagging prices, just a day after one of the continent’s top energy executives declared the market “dead” and demanded urgent intervention to save it. Continue reading
Posted in Cap & Tax
But is the Greens’ high moral air carbon neutral?
I HATE to break the news this way, but Australia is not going to meet its target to reduce greenhouse emissions by 5 per cent of 2000 levels by 2020. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Richard Lindzen: The Perversion Of Science
Foreword to Andrew Montford’s Nullius in Verba: The Royal Society and Climate Change Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Royal Society Urged To Restore Culture of Open-Mindedness on Climate Science & Policy Debates
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is calling on the Royal Society to restore a culture of open-mindedness and balanced assessment of climate science and climate policy. Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change
‘An Inconsistent Truth’ Exposes Gore’s Agenda
New movie project reveals flaws in ‘cap-and-trade schemes’ Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change, Media
The Economist: Trouble in the air, double on the ground
China objects to European efforts to curb its airlines’ emissions (as everyone should) Continue reading
Posted in Cap & Tax
Paul Driessen: That jobs thing sure didn’t last long
Obama rejects Keystone XL jobs, promotes more wind and solar subsidies. What to do now? Continue reading
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Posted in Development, Oil and gas
California cap-and-trade money should be spent carefully, analyst says
Rather than this: “California’s experiment in combating global warming by creating a cap-and-trade program could generate more than $12 billion a year in revenue, but officials can’t rely on that windfall to fix the state’s fiscal problems, according to a new report” might we suggest fiscal problems would be smaller if they didn’t rip $12billion a year out of consumers’ pockets? Continue reading
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Posted in Cap & Tax
Greenfield Ethanol boss: Ethanol gives the economy a boost
Please don’t recommend breaking everyone’s windows – we can’t stand much more ethanol-style economic boosting Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Clean energy, Renewable fuel
EDITORIAL: Clean green fraud
Government’s ethanol mandate invites corruption Continue reading
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Posted in Agriculture, Clean energy, Renewable fuel
Windfarms: An ill wind of change?
As the world’s biggest windfarm opens off Cumbria, critics continue to question the turbine boom Continue reading
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Posted in Clean energy
When subsidies undermine your subsidies
For forty years, people have tried to get Solar to work. Now, the worst possible thing for the industry has occurred: The Left are serious about trying to help it. Continue reading
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Posted in Clean energy, Economics, Green hell
Aus government tries to stuff another $billion down a hole
VICTORIA’S Latrobe Valley will get a $1 billion carbon capture storage project, designed to turn dirty brown coal into a greener option for the state. Continue reading
Posted in Carbon capture & sequestration
UK: Solar energy subsidy faces more cuts
The subsidy for household solar systems faces a fresh series of cuts this year, and could plunge to about a third of recent levels, under government changes announced on Thursday. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy, Economics
Killing drilling with farcical ‘science’
The academic face of the anti-fracking movement — Cornell marine ecologist Robert Howarth — increasingly looks like he’s willing to turn science into farce. Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change, Fracking
Gas price fall sees BG slash fracking in US
BG Group is dramatically scaling back plans to employ the controversial practice of “fracking” for shale gas in the US. Continue reading
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Posted in Fracking, Oil and gas
DoD surrenders to EPA on sustainability
Meet the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Continue reading
Posted in EPA
