Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Australian Climate Madness: Alan Jones: Tide is turning on climate change hysteria
Alan Jones isn't one to mince words, and convincingly lays bare the case against the AGW hysteria.

Enjoy.
Open Passage Expedition: Coming from the west, they've already hit ice, and they've already seen hundreds of walruses that have not yet been killed by carbon dioxide
Silent Sound encountered her first sea ice early on the morning of the 17th as we sailed past Franklin Point. At first, it was a shimmer of white on the horizon, a white line where there should have been sea. Then, slowly we started seeing more and more small bits of ice in the water, pieces the size of a football, then one slightly bigger until we were in the thick of the pack ice, with floes that measured several meters across. We were in for a surprise the first time we hit a piece.Silent Sound shuddered from the impact and it created a deafening sound down below. As the chunk slowly rolled away from the hull we could see the smear of red our anti-fouling paint had created. The sails came down and we proceeded at half throttle.

Soon we were backing up and working our way around bits, with crew on the foredeck calling out directions to the helmsman. We had mistakenly entered the main ice pack, and we had to send Tobias up the mast to look for a way out. Over the next several hours we motored through ice of varying density until we broke through into open water about 20 miles west of Barrow.

It was amazing to see all the walruses and whales in the ice pack. There were hundreds of walruses sunning themselves on the ice, and we got close enough to smell them and hear them bellowing.
North Dakota Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan comes out strongly against the cap and tax swindle
For those who like the wild price swings in the oil futures market, the unseemly speculation in mortgage-backed securities, or the exotic and risky financial products like credit default swaps that pushed our economy into the ditch, this cap-and-trade plan will be the answer to their prayers.
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I'm not signing up to create a new financial market to trade carbon securities. In my judgment, it is exactly the wrong way to address this issue.

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