THE NOAH EFFECT by Professor Will Alexander « An Honest Climate Debate

The claim that climate change will result in increases in undesirable floods, while omitting references to the beneficial effects, is completely unscientific, misleading and unethical. It is unsupported by observations or by hydrological theory. This whole climate change fiasco would not survive scrutiny by an independent, multidisciplinary panel of experts.

Climate Research News » From the Increasingly Bizarre Virtual World: Controlling CO2 Emissions to Delay Next Ice Age

By controlling emissions of fossil fuels we may be able to greatly delay the start of the next ice age, new research from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen concludes. The results have been published in the scientific magazine, Geophysical Research Letters.

Paris self-service bicycles are vandalised, stolen and sold - Times Online

It was introduced to roaring success — hailed by environmentalists and cycling enthusiasts as the ideal solution to congestion on the streets. But life is now proving brutish and short for the Vélib, the self-service bicycle that the city of Paris introduced 18 months ago.

So far, 7,800 of the “damage-resistant” grey bicyclettes — which can be hired for up to €1 (87 pence) per half-hour — have simply vanished, while 11,600 have been vandalised, their operating company said yesterday.

Hung from trees, thrown in the river or shipped to foreign parts, the Vélib bikes have met much more aggressive treatment than expected when the first of the 20,000 of them were docked at their 1,250 stations in July 2007. The damage has forced JCDecaux, the advertising company that supplies them to the city, to replace most of the original bicycles at a cost of more than €400 each.

“We underestimated the degree of damage that they would suffer,” said Albert Asseraf, the marketing director of JCDecaux.
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Last week the city council approved the outline of Mr Delanoë’s latest self-service transport scheme: Autolibs — 2,000 clean-energy cars that will be stationed at bays around the city from autumn next year.