Ineffective solar rebates should go, says report | smh.com.au

CASH rebates for householders to install solar panels and feed-in tariffs that reward people for generating solar power from rooftop panels should be scrapped, says a report commissioned by the Federal Government.

The Wilkins report, handed to the Government last July and released with the budget this week, singles out federal and state government subsidies to solar electricity as one of the least effective and most expensive ways of tackling climate change.

Stress-Testing Biofuels: How the Game Was Rigged - TIME

It's also true that there's a lot of uncertainty when it comes to biofuels. But it's not good uncertainty. Study after study suggests that growing fuel could be a disaster for the planet, while raising global food prices and promoting global food riots. The amount of grain it takes to fill an SUV with ethanol could feed an adult for a year; we need every acre of farmland to feed the world. President Obama never claimed to be a reformer when it came to ethanol, and he and Vilsack have been big supporters of next-generation biofuels. Maybe there's nothing EPA officials can do to stop the renewable-fuels steamroller, but it would nice if they suggested slowing it down.

YouTube - THE AL GORE SCAM

How the American public is being scammed about global warming and Al Gore and friends are poised to profit from this scam.

YouTube cartoon - Global warming fraud promotion for children, with an introduction from alarmist Ben Santer

Part 1 of Hippo Works' Stop Global Warming Video with an introduction from Climate Scientist Ben Santer

Benjamin D. Santer: Information from Answers.com

The Science & Environmental Policy Project in 1996 accused Santer of altering Chapter 8 of the 1995 IPCC report on the science of climate change, deleting phrases that suggested scientific doubts about human influences on climate to make the report conform to the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.