Environmental News Examiner: Global-warming skeptics discover that plants like carbon dioxide

Have a plant in your office. That’s the ticket. Kimberly’s on the right track, because while plants do like carbon dioxide, our massive introduction of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in the last 160 years has coincided with a massive reduction in plant life. Here’s the equation in the most simple terms from Science Theater. Since Science Theater posted that page in 1994, the earth has experienced ten of the warmest years on record.

Green [scam] spending in UK economic rescue package 'negligible' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Britain's economic rescue package contains "neglible" spending on green measures, campaigners claimed in a report published today. Just 0.6% of the government's stimulus package will help develop a low-carbon economy, said the New Economics Foundation.

Dimwitted vigilante darkens Earth Hour - Local News - Cairns, QLD, Australia

AN elderly Cairns woman is believed to be the first victim of an Earth Hour vigilante after a mystery door-knocker pulled the plug on her lights just after the global power-saving hour started.

The 81-year-old's furious daughter Madeleine Brandt, who reported the incident to police yesterday, said the thoughtless "do-gooder" left her frail, Bayview Heights mother "to fumble and perhaps tumble in the dark" after going to her meter box and switching off the power.

The answer to global warming is not blowing in the wind | The Australian

IF wind energy were the one practical and affordable answer to global warming then I would grit my teeth at the loss of the countryside and accept it. But I know (it is) no answer to global warming in northern Europe. The Germans, who have invested more than anyone in this form of energy, are finding, according to newspaper Der Spiegel, that despite more than 17,000 wind turbines across Germany the nation is now emitting more CO2 than before it built them. Why? Because the turbines are only 17 per cent efficient, the wind does not blow at the right speed often enough for them to do better than this.

As a result 83 per cent of the electricity that should have come from wind has to be made in coal-burning power stations that can never work at optimum efficiency because they are forever adjusting to the fluctuating flow from wind generation. Even with the huge attraction of the subsidy, energy companies are increasingly abandoning wind as an effective and green source of energy.There is no such thing as renewable energy; it belongs as an idea with perpetual motion and other delusions, but politicians and ideologues have become skilled at using enticing words to cover essentially rotten ideas.