Al Fin: How to Destroy Any City On Earth With Mirror Balloons: Did This Idea Come From Pottersville or Bedford Falls?

Josh is extremely creative and intelligent, but perhaps he did not get the memo that explains how the Earth has not warmed significantly for the past decade? It is likely that no one told him that the effects of the PDO and AMO far outweigh the effects of CO2 on Earth's climate. Probably no one cued him in on the shenanigans of James Hansen and Michael Mann in exaggerating human effects on the climate. Of course no one told him. There is no money in waiting to get better data. All the money is in Al Gore's carbon trading scheme, and in NASA GISS' budget and billion dollar research grants to "official climatology institutes" who are willing to toe the IPCC line of alarmism and carbon hysteria. Why would anyone bother to correct the misinformation, when doing so might cut off some of those billions in carbon trades, climate institute budgets, and research grants? No reason. Except perhaps a desire to save science from one of the biggest hoaxes in history.

Observing all the global hysteria over climate nothings would be enough to turn even the gentlest humanitarian into a brooding misanthrope.

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Wind Watch: Idaho energy office disbands wind think-tank

At a time when Idaho trails others in harnessing wind resources, the Office of Energy Resources has disbanded the state’s wind-power think tank and reassigned a staff member who had focused on wind projects to work on energy efficiency instead.

Wind Watch: Effort high to keep power lines out of virgin desert

In March 2007, April Sall, the conservationist overseeing the Pipes Canyon Preserve in the San Bernardino County desert, got a call from an employee at the federal Bureau of Land Management.

The caller wondered if Sall knew of a plan to run 85 miles of electrical transmission lines through the Morongo Basin, on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, and through parts of the 20,000-acre private preserve northeast of Yucca Valley.

She didn’t.

Wind Watch: Pie-in-the-sky thinking

Bob Baird (Letters, 17 December) has dropped one the biggest boo boos I have ever heard from supporters of wind farms. Please ask his colleagues at the Renewable Group of Strathclyde University to show him and the world some of these hydrogen-producing units at work in a commercial context. Can he tell us where pumped-storage been built specifically to serve the needs of wobbling wind power?

For the foreseeable future, Mr Baird is projecting pie in the sky.

The electricity which wind turbines supply to the grid fluctuates wildly and would not be marketable without enforced purchase and the huge consumer-sourced subsidy of the renewables obligation. This fluctuation means that they have to be backed up all the time with conventional fossil fuelled power plants or nuclear. Our government’s current unrealistic target is 12,000 of these monsters carpeting our landscapes and seascapes by 2020.