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How long until a hybrid or electric car pays for its extra cost?
NY Times – The Cost of Higher Fuel Economy I’ll insert a disclaimer here and say that I expect some controversy over the numbers. For instance, you can easily price compare a hybrid and non-hybrid versions of some of the … Continue reading
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James Lovelock Goes Skeptical on Global Warming
Environmental Guru and Inventor of the “Gaia” Theory of the Living Earth James Lovelock: I Was a Climate Change “Alarmist” And So Is Al Gore “The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew … Continue reading
Matt Ridley: The Beginning Of The End Of Wind
Matt Ridley: The Beginning Of The End Of Wind. In Britain the percentage of total energy that comes from wind is only 0.6 per cent. According to the Renewable Energy Foundation, ‘policies intended to meet the EU Renewables Directive in … Continue reading
Fakegate/Gleickgate – Global Warming’s Piltdown Man
Fluffy: I’m going to repeat in every thread about this that the fraud is not that [Peter Gleick] got documents under false pretenses. That’s investigative reporting and resourcefulness. HURRAH HURRAH HOO-RAH. The fraud is that he took a document of … Continue reading
Why all the talk about global warming is just talk
Megan McArdle – Why We Should Act to Stop Global Warming—and Why We Won’t: As much as I disagree with Heartland on global warming, they may influence a bare handful of people. What really influences people is contemplating their own … Continue reading
Killing one species to save an endangered species – what could possiblie go wrong?
Washington Post – Obama administration plan would kill rival bird to save spotted owl: To save the imperiled spotted owl, the Obama administration is moving forward with a controversial plan to shoot barred owls, a rival bird that has shoved … Continue reading
Peter Gleick’s Confession on Faked Heartland Climate Documents
All evidence is that the Heartland climate document is a fake. Climate change Global warming warrior Peter Gleick has made his first confession to his involvement in the fraud. Some people think he wrote the whole forgery. Glenn Reynolds has … Continue reading
The Simplest-ever Refutation of “The Warmest Decade” Global Warming Nonsense
I must be growing: this decade is my tallest ever. http://reason.com/blog/2012/02/08/climate-scientists-violate-own-advice-op#comment_2824178
“To Animals, All People Are Nazis”
Slave the Whales! – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine. Does the 13th Amendment apply to critters? Can whales be plaintiffs? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals thinks so, and has filed suitin a San Diego court to emancipate … Continue reading
In the Glorious Environmental Utopia You Will Freeze to Death in the Dark
School turns heating off to ‘save planet’; Fury as kids shiver on coldest day
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#globalwarmingfail – Record time between hurricane landfall in the US
A New US Hurricane Record: On December 4, 2011 it will have been 2,232 days since Hurricane Wilma made landfall along the Gulf coast as a category 3 storm back in 2005. That number of days will break the existing … Continue reading
Climategate II – Longer, Harder, Uncut Emails
More emails, more bitchy scientific gossip, and more white labcoat backstabbing: You know what you get when you mix science and politics? You get politics, period. Hockey Stick Charlatan Michael Mann gets the worst of it from this batch of … Continue reading
Corn ethanol – bad for the environment and bad for gas mileage
Blighted harvest: The American corn ethanol disaster: Basic chemistry dictates that gallon for gallon, burning ethanol produces only 2/3 as much energy as burning gasoline. In recent years, Americans have become accustomed to E15 “gasohol” (15% ethanol) at the pumps. … Continue reading
Irony isn’t on the periodic table, but it’s real
About those environmentalist bumper stickers, on cars, that burn gasoline…
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Home of the Windmill Slashes Wind, Solar Subsidies
Holland slashes carbon targets, shuns wind for nuclear: In a radical change of policy, the Netherlands is reducing its targets for renewable energy and slashing the subsidies for wind and solar power. It’s also given the green light for the … Continue reading
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As if Fish Don’t Pee
Eight million gallons of water drained from reservoir after man urinates in it.
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Sun may be headed for solar minimums in next decade
WattsUpWithThat – BREAKING – major AAS solar announcement: Sun’s Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity.
George Monbiot: Environmental Movement is "Lost"
George Monbiot – Let’s face it: none of our environmental fixes break the planet-wrecking project: Last week something astonishing happened: Fatih Birol, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency, revealed that peak oil has already happened. “We think that … Continue reading
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Study: wind farms less productive than claimed
BBC – Wind farm efficiency queried by John Muir Trust study: Wind farms are much less efficient than claimed, producing below 10% of capacity for more than a third of the time, according to a new report. The analysis also … Continue reading
Algae biodiesel claims questioned
Skepticism On Algae Biodiesel Yields: “We found that phycologists — algae scientists — maintain that some popular estimates of producing 200 to 500 grams of algae per square meter of open pond per day weren’t feasible because there’s simply not … Continue reading
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