Thursday, April 16, 2009

YouTube - Chris Horner on Renewable Fuels and Corporate Welfare
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner explains how companies are taking advantage of federal tax credits and subsidies for supposedly eco-friendly energy sources while actually burning more fossil fuels than ever before.
Focus the Nation Town Hall: Friday, April 17
For the second year in a row, Portland will serve as the flagship city for a nationwide, grassroots discussion on climate change. Focus the Nation, a nonprofit organization founded in Portland to empower young leaders to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future, will host its second national civic engagement campaign at Portland State University's Hoffman Hall from 6 pm to 9 pm on Friday, April 17.
Heliogenic Climate Change: Atmospheric CO2 -- sources and residence time
"If "the ‘carbon sink’ in the North Atlantic is the primary gate for carbon dioxide (CO2) entering the global ocean" and if "recent observational studies found that the North Atlantic carbon uptake has decreased by 50 per cent over the last ten years" then one can conclude, as did Richard Courtney, that "The findings are that a significant part - and possibly all - of the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration over the last ten years is a result of changed ocean chemistry induced by variation of the NAO"."

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