Monday, March 30, 2009

Questions for the climate change brigade to answer | Coffee House
[Nicholas] Stern (who has zero scientific expertise) replied that the "status of that argument now is like that between HIV and Aids or smoking and lung cancer." Note a key characteristic of the climate change brigade: refusal even to recognise the opposing argument. And it is this which makes me so suspicious.
$8,000 for a 200-year green door? « Green Hell Blog
“Well, like this big sliding glass door costs $8,000,” she said, slowly sliding a massive glass and wood door shut. One can buy a cheap door in similar dimensions at Home Depot for $500.” I raised my eyebrow.

“The wood is Forest Stewardship Council certified,” she added. “It was made to last 200 years!”
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Odd quote from the new Patrick Michaels/Robert Balling book "Climate of Extremes", page 26:
Clearly, the sun and El Nino are still capable of halting a warming trend, but they don't have nearly enough power to send temperatures back to where they were in about 1900.

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