Piers Corbyn is thrown out of ClimateChangeDebate.Com | Climate Realists

Can you have a site named ClimateChangeDebate.Com that does not want to listen to both sides of the debate? Well it looks like you can.

Here is the goodbye message from CCD to Piers Corbyn...

American Thinker: An End to Dependence on Middle East Oil

Over the last 40 years, the United States has become increasingly dependent on foreign oil and reluctant to develop domestic, fossil fuel resources. Today, America imports two-thirds of its oil at a cost of $300 billion per year, much of it from politically unstable, Middle East countries which control 45% of the world's oil, overall.

This is occurring despite the existence of bountiful, untapped oil resources within the United States. Developing these resources could free America from imports, create badly needed, oil-production jobs and meet U.S. energy demand for the next 200 years. With nearly three-fourths of Americans favoring increased energy exploration, the only obstacle standing in the way of our energy independence is a lack of political vision and will.

We need only look to our Canadian neighbors to realize how forging ahead politically to develop oil resources could help increase our energy supplies, boost our sagging economy and increase our tax base.
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Oil shale development would stimulate the economy with money that would otherwise be spent overseas. It would contribute to our national security and mean that the United States would not have to import hundreds of billions of barrels of oil from the Persian Gulf. With oil sands and oil shale resources , the combined U.S. and Canadian energy supplies would comprise the largest oil reserves in the world and make the United States independent of Persian Gulf oil.

Unearthed hour | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Brisbane: Sir Richard Branson is hosting the Charity Hangar Ball during Earth Hour, a candlelit dinner for 3,000 at Brisbane Airport. The carbon-neutral event will feature performers Marcia Hines, Rogue Traders, Evermore and Housequake.

Branson is based in the UK. Hines lives in NSW. The Rogue Traders are from Melbourne. Evermore came from New Zealand and are now based in Victoria, along with Housequake. Carbon neutral? How? Are they replanting the Amazon?

From alarmist Arctic team blog, yet another post about the cold

They are two of the psychologically toughest people I know, but even they must be feeling it after three brutal weeks on the ice.

In these kind of temperatures, your mental field of vision can become very narrow. Constantly running through a mental checklist of how your extremities are doing, attempting to keep the creeping cold at bay, and trying to find little ways to minimise the discomfort soak up a lot of your time and energy.

It’s easy in these temperatures to become frustrated with yourself, your team-mates and your kit. The fact that it took Martin a week to find a sewing needle burrowed in his bum gives you some idea of how weary they must all be feeling right now. That they are remaining on excellent terms with each another speaks volumes about their personalities.

Any seasoned expeditioner will tell you that pretty much anything is bearable, providing that one has the ability to enjoy a warm and dry night's sleep. However, for various reasons the team chose not to take vapour barrier liners for their sleeping bags, and now with a sudden warming (up to a sultry -24 from a nippy -40 degrees Celsius) their frozen sleeping bags are just starting to feel like sorbets.

Opposition, Xenophon seize on ETS report - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Federal Opposition says a report into the effects of the Government's emissions trading scheme is proof the scheme has serious flaws.

The report by Frontier Economics shows the scheme will cost the national economy $2 trillion over the next 40 years, with the worst effects to be felt in regional Australia.