Post Tagged with: "CO2"

February 14, 2012 14:27

Glaciers Melting Slower Than Thought

The substantial overestimation of glacial ice loss in previous reports serves as a reminder that surface temperature measurements reported from various locations and then extrapolated on a worldwide basis conflict with uniform global temperature readings measured by instruments on NASA satellites.

February 9, 2012 04:15

Little Green Morons

After three years of the most astonishingly stupid and wasteful green energy policies inflicted on Americans, it is hard keeping score of the various beneficiaries of government largess that are going bankrupt. The most famous at this point is Solyndra that went belly up taking a half billion in loan guarantees—taxpayer funded—with it. Beacon Power, a green energy storage plant, filed for bankruptcy last fall took with it $43 million of more Department of Energy loan guarantees. Ener1, touted during a visit by Vice President Joe Biden—who inadvertently called it “Enron1”—filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The electric car battery maker had received a $118 million grant from the Obama administration.

February 8, 2012 06:17

Record Cold in Germany Freezes Rivers

Freezing weather is continuing across Europe. In Germany, the cold is so severe that many rivers and canals have frozen solid. BBC’s Steve Evans reports from Berlin. – Video

February 3, 2012 12:13

EPA’s political “science” for political agenda

EPA’s real goal is to assert its authority over ever-increasing segments of our economy; reinterpret medical and scientific studies to fit its regulatory agenda; and replace as many coal-fired power plants as possible with costly, unreliable renewable energy systems.

February 3, 2012 10:21

GOP Governors Want Taxpayer Funded Wind Subsidies

[T]hey use VHS-style thinking that wastes taxpayer dollars and destroys economic value. The letter urges that “The wind energy sector is an American success story that is helping us build our manufacturing base, create jobs, lower energy costs and strengthen our energy security.”

February 3, 2012 05:55

Cold weather death toll passes 100 in Ukraine – Italy coldest week in 27 years

More than 100 people have now died as a result of freezing weather in Ukraine since last Friday, the government has announced in Kiev. Temperatures plunged to below -35C [-31F] in parts of eastern Europe this week. – BBC News

February 1, 2012 07:46

Signing Global Warming’s Certificate of Death

In time, historians may look back and conclude that the January 27th article was, in fact, global warming’s death certificate, signed by an international group of scientists who could not be disputed no matter how many times the warmists jump up and down and cry that the sky is falling.

January 31, 2012 11:44

Obama doubles down on failed green energy scam

As our President promised to “double down” on renewable energy, in spite of the bankrupted Solyndra, three more green energy companies, recipients of stimulus dollars, have collapsed. In addition, the bad news mounts for the progressives who want to send us back to the Stone Age with their global warming fear mongering.

January 30, 2012 05:58

Global warming’s ‘dirty laundry’

Climategate disclosures have unmasked shoddy methods in service of a leftist public-policy agenda. Compelling release of all communications – dirty laundry and all – is the only way to provide the full context. Let an informed public decide on its own whether they’ve been hoodwinked by charlatans, or that the sky really is falling. – Washington Times

January 30, 2012 05:17

No Warming for 15 years! Ice Age Coming!

The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century. – Mail Online