Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Twitter / UN Global Compact
UN Leadership Forum on Climate Change issues powerful outcome declaration [PDF: Check out the list of companies and organizations that participated]: http://tinyurl.com/mgtst3
California automaker receives $528.7 million govt loan
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fisker Automotive, a California manufacturer of luxury electric vehicles, will receive more than $500 million in federal loans to develop a plug-in hybrid sports car with a sticker price of nearly $90,000 and a new plug-in hybrid vehicle to be built in the United States.
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Fisker has raised tens of millions of dollars from top venture capital firms such as Palo Alto Investors and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, of which former Vice President Al Gore is a partner. The company has pre-sold more than 1,500 Karmas and recruited a network of 45 dealers.

The company has promoted the Karma as an example of green mobility. The vehicle's average fuel economy can exceed 100 miles per gallon and company officials say the Karma could use as little as one tank of gas per year if driven fewer than 50 miles per day and fully charged overnight.
Alarmist Revkin [again makes up his own "facts"] - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
I have an article running in The Times on recent vagaries in planetary temperature, which almost all scientific experts on global warming describe as a brief and normal hiatus from the long-term warming driven by greenhouse gases.
How could Revkin know this? Has he talked to "almost all scientific experts" to confirm their thinking on this specific issue? How many are there? What are their names?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"almost all scientific experts on global warming "

English translation: I made it up because I needed something to back up my point and give it some ++ gravitas.