Washington Times - Obama climate plan could cost $2 trillion

House Republican leaders blasted the costs in the new estimate.

"The last thing we need is a massive tax increase in a recession, but reportedly that's what the White House is offering: up to $1.9 trillion in tax hikes on every single American who drives a car, turns on a light switch or buys a product made in the United States," said Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Minority Leader John A. Boehner. "And since this energy tax won't affect manufacturers in Mexico, India and China, it will do nothing but drive American jobs overseas."

Jennifer Marohasy » Plane found Under 90 metres of Ice

Many years later a group of WWII veterans and enthusiastic military aircraft guys decided to find the lost squadron on the Greenlandic Icecap. It was easy to find the area by using the coordinates from the rescue mission, but it wasn’t easy to find the airplanes, expected to be around or about 15-20 meters under the surface according to the precipitation data for the last 50 years (1942-92).

But there must be something wrong with the precipitation data because the squadron was found at a depth of 268 feet (about 90 meters) under the surface of the Icecap.

The recovery of the airplane from the Icecap perhaps gives us a clue to the speeding up of the two Eastern glaciers: a huge amount of precipitation accumulating 90 meters of ice!

Svend Hendriksen,
Greenland.

Cold winter allegedly kills 50 pct of kingfishers in Netherlands

About half of the small rare bright blue birds may have died because they were unable to find food in the frozen waters, says a bird research foundation.