And the correct answer is… cold bad – warm good. Not what we expect the Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance to conclude though Continue reading
Daily Archives: February 20, 2012
Scientists suggest looking into history to learn climate change lessons
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Posted in Climate Change
Fritz Vahrenholt: Climate Hysteria May Kill Renewable Energy Transition
‘My biggest concern is that if it hasn’t become warmer by 2015, but perhaps even colder, people will say: “Tell me, why did you create such a panic?” And then public acceptance for the energy transition and for renewable energy will vanish.’ Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy, Climate Change
Food industry frets about federal dioxin-risk report
Food and agricultural groups are worried that the release of a long-awaited federal study on the health effects of dioxins will lead to new regulations from the Obama administration on what Americans can eat.
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Australia: Room for better publicity on CSG (coal seam gas)
THE coal-seam gas industry has admitted it could be better at self-promotion, in the wake of a Newspoll that reveals community support for the sector is floundering. Continue reading
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Posted in Uncategorized
Wildfire Smoke Kills 339,000 a Year, Researchers Say
Smoke from burning forests and grasslands kills on average 339,000 people a year world-wide, an international research team said Sunday in the first systematic global health study of air pollution from wildfires. Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, Public health miscellany
Peter C Glover: North Sea Oil and Gas Just Won’t Quit
Talk to anyone in the UK or Norway about North Sea oil and gas and the word ‘decline’ inevitably comes up. The years of decline may not have halted, but all the signs are that 2012 looks like being a bumper year for North Sea oil and gas. Continue reading
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Posted in Oil and gas
Andrew Bolt: How global warming is preached in Year 8
A textbook on how to brainwash children on global warming. From this book for Year 8 NSW students we learn the only “shock jocks” and a few journalists – no real scientists, of course – disagree with the “overwhelming scientific evidence” that the world is warming because of man’s gases. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
German Offshore Wind Energy Delays Threaten Energy-Plan Overhaul
Germany’s offshore wind parks, being built to replace most of the nuclear reactors closing in the next decade, are headed to miss construction targets because of delays in connecting turbines to the power grid. Continue reading
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Posted in Clean energy, Nuclear power
Australian press deluded over climate change
The press and some of the inner city latte set believe in the need to “address climate change” and our Left-wing politicians believe the press. The rest of Australia, however, strongly disagrees and this leaves the government (basically Labor or “workers party”) pursuing policy which suits only non-working Australians. Hence the looming wipeout of Australia’s political Left. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Media
Who is Peter Gleick?
Who is the man who used deception to obtain documents from Heartland? Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Guilty: Gleick admits to Heartland deception
He did it for the planet. The Pacific Institute’s Peter Gleick has admitted to using deception to obtain the Heartland Institute documents involved in “Deniergate.” Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
WSJ: The Not-So-Vast Conspiracy
Stolen documents show the tiny budget of global warming skeptics. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
WSJ: Concerned Scientists Reply on Global Warming
The authors of the Jan. 27 Wall Street Journal op-ed, ‘No Need to Panic about Global Warming,’ respond to their critics. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Gingrich mocks Obama’s environmental policies
The Tulsa World reports: Continue reading
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Posted in Battle of 2012, Electric vehicles
Impact of burning all Alberta’s oilsands negligible, scientists argue
“Burning all the proven reserve between 2012 and 2062, they say, would raise global temperatures by just 0.02 C to 0.05 C.” Continue reading
Posted in Oil and gas
Monbiot: ‘We need to know who funds these think tank lobbyists’
Monbiot is upset that “billionaires and big business” seek to protect themselves from mob rule. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Exxon tempers European shale gas enthusiasm
“In the past year, some companies have spurred talk of a European shale gale.” Continue reading
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Posted in Fracking
Claim: Unsafe levels of lead still found in California youths
“Lead is all around us.” Continue reading
Posted in Lead
MSM still having trouble distinguishing ‘Deniergate’ from Climategate
Jean Chemick also forgot to report that Michael Mann’s “open letter” was compiled and distributed by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
