Wednesday, January 14, 2009

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It is a bit early in the year to staking out a position in the race for boneheaded move of the year in the climate wars, but NASA GISS has done just that but doubling down on its prediction that 2009 or 2010 will be the warmest on record.
Another Reason Why We’ll Never See A Carbon Tax, But Instead Will Get A Crazy Cap-And-Trade Scheme | Coyote Blog
Too many very influential Democrats have substantial investments in start-up companies whose entire existance depends on living in the cracks of cap-and-trade, particularly in generating various dubious offset schemes. Al Gore is the most obvious example, but apparently Obama’s new climate czar Carol Browner sits on boards of such companies as well.
Hillary And Lurch Still Trying To Sell Global Warming - While It’s 40 Below Zero In Minnesota - Say Anything
I hate being cold.

The problem with them abandoning the global warming thing is twofold. One part is that they’d have to sort of look down at the ground, mumble something, and shuffle away into an embarrassed silence after their full throated endorsements of Al Gore’s nonsense. The second part is that the left would have to face the fact that they were just oh so close to being able to tell us all how to live so we won’t over heat the planet. And they do NOT want to do that. They know best, you see.
Solar Manufacturing: Not So Sunny - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
The recession has cast clouds over once fast-growing solar manufacturers.

California-based OptiSolar is laying off close to half of its workers at what it had hoped would become a huge solar-panel plant near Sacramento.

Austin-based HelioVolt, a thin-film solar manufacturer, is also cutting jobs, as reportedly is SunEdison.

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