Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Why is the Party in Power So Fearful of Copenhagen? (Is a ‘death spiral’ for climate alarmism ahead?) — MasterResource
The end might be in sight for the mighty effort of the environmental left to put a cap on capitalism by capping carbon.
DeSoggyBog: a parody of DeSmogBlog.com
DeSoggyBog is a parody of the environmental activist website DeSmogBlog.com. It is a project of NOconsensus.org and was created by Donna Laframboise, a former Vice-President of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

Ms. Laframboise believes that when activists insist their cause is more important than other people's free speech, we all need to worry. Read an all-kidding-aside critique here.
The Daily Bayonet » The Powerless Green Future
The perfect storm of a spineless political class and a somnolent public faced with aggressive green lobby groups has brought the UK to a point where it is a country without an energy future. No one listens to voices of reason, preferring to pretend that renewable energy can fill the gap and ignoring that ‘green’ alternatives require the industrialization of the open countryside
Norway Fund Moves Toward Green Investments - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, one of the largest in the world with about $400 billion in assets, plans to commit about $3.5 billion dollars over a period of five years to companies it deems environmentally sound and engaged in sustainable growth in emerging markets, an official at the country’s Finance Ministry said Tuesday.

Martin Skancke, director general of asset management at the ministry, said the Norwegian Government Pension Fund aimed to set aside the sum, which represents almost 1 percent of its present funds, for the initiative as it continues to develop a strategy to limit climate change through selective investment.

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