Friday, November 28, 2008

Gore and the collapse of the Mayan civilisation
The just-written paper below is by statistician Dr. Richard Mackey... It debunks Gore's Warmist linkage to the collapse of the Mayan civilisation
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One of the most intriguing developments in the past couple of weeks was a planned bid by SolarWorld, a German maker of photovoltaic equipment with about 2,000 employees, to take over sites belong to General Motors in Germany operating under the Opel brand name.

SolarWorld is one of the largest companies of its kind, but it’s still a minnow beside Opel, which has about 26,000 employees in Germany. A spokeswoman for GM said the bid by SolarWorld was “pure speculation” and that “Opel is not for sale.”

Some auto industry analysts also were dismissive, saying SolarWorld would not be able to finance such a bid or make a success of the takeover. Shares in SolarWorld plummeted on news of the bid.

But SolarWorld insisted that its bid, which it announced Nov. 19 and said was worth about 1 billion euros, was credible and that it had what it takes to be a car company.

SolarWorld described Opel as “tradition-fraught” and said its expertise could enable it to “offer electric drive and hybrid drive vehicles in the future as well as models equipped with the latest technology like extended-range electric drive vehicles that combine electric motors and combustion engines in a highly efficient manner.”

SolarWorld acknowledged that it had “so far been exclusively involved in solar power technology” but said it could “subsequently develop Opel into the first ‘green’ European automotive group” and that it had a track record for successful takeovers, including the solar division of Shell, the energy giant.

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