Wind Watch: Ritter's PC projects will cost us all

In the 20 years I have lived in Colorado, I have seen the transition from a growing, functional economy into an economy that increasingly relies on obscure, “politically correct” subsidies such as solar- and wind-power generation that are touted as solutions to our economic woes.

Rube Goldberg is famous for portraying complex machines that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways and, increasingly, Colorado’s economy is taking on the appearance of such a device.
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While the governor might find it self-fulfilling to attach wind turbines and solar panels to his economic “machine,” these partisan policies are undermining Colorado’s economy. Ultimately, the cost of the governor’s Rube Goldberg machine will hit Coloradans where it hurts. The only question is, what newfangled contraption is the governor going to add to the device to get money out of your empty wallet?

John Gardiner

Protecting The IPCC Turf - There Are No Independent Climate Assessments Of The IPCC WG1 Report Funded And Sanctioned By The NSF, NASA Or The NRC.

The IPCC is actually a relatively small group of individuals who are using the IPCC process to control what policymakers and the public learn about climate on multi-decadal time scales. This NRC planning process further demonstrates the intent of the IPCC members to manipulate the science, so that their viewpoints are the only ones that reach the policymakers.

If the NSF, NASA and the NRC are going to appoint and accept recommendations by groups with a clear conflict of interest to protect their turf [in this case the IPCC], they will be complicit in denying all of us a balanced presentation of the physical science basis of climate change, including the role that humans have.

Sea Ice Back to 1979 Levels, Polar Bears Safe…Still | All American Blogger

One thing was constant in 2008: the sea ice was going to disappear and the polar bears were all going to drown or starve...

24/7 Wall St.: The "Green" Revolution In Cars Dies Off

Up until now, the biggest obstacle to the sale of hybrid cars is that some Americans think the people who drive them are sissies. That may be true, but Toyota (TM) has sold more than one million of its Prius models worldwide. Honda is not far behind with its less expensive models. The Big Three could not fit all their electric and ethanol-powered cars onto the showroom floor at the Detroit Car Show.

Toyota now admits that the sales of its Prius are dying in the US. That is because of two things. One is that no cars are selling at all. The other is that hybrids are expensive. The price of all the extra technology gets passed on to the consumers.

US auto firms are getting into the "green" car business at just the wrong time, which is consistent with the rest of their behavior over the last four decades.