Tuesday, September 30, 2008

With teacher in the arctic, Morristown High students to explore climate change | Daily Record | Daily Record
Not only will students get to witness high-level research techniques, they'll also get to learn about one of the most hotly debated topics of the world today, Colfax said.
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Colfax cautioned that students should not expect to draw any conclusions from just two weeks of sampling information.
UK ‘Renewables’ Policy Laid Waste
There is only one article to read today, a truly brilliant piece by Bjørn Lomborg writing in The Times [‘Global warming: why cut one 3,000th of a degree? It’s absurd’, The Times, September 30, p. 28].

In my opinion, Bjørn’s inexorable logic is unanswerable, as he ruthlessly exposes the mind-blowing folly of the UK’s Alice-in-Wonderland policies on ‘renewable’ energy. Accepting ‘global warming’ as a reality, Bjørn then crunches the figures:

“The temperature increase by 2100 without Mr Brown’s plan would have been 2.4536181C. With the best-case scenario the huge UK effort means that the temperature at the end of the century would be 2.4532342C. The effect is a difference of about 0.00038C - or about one three-thousandth of a degree in a hundred years. This is the equivalent of delaying the temperature increase by the end of the century by a little less than a week.

And the cost for this paltry week? £100 billion.

“At a cost of £100 billion, the investment involves paying £1 to do less than 4p worth of good.”

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