Thursday, October 29, 2009

Climate Research News » Greens Caught Fiddling Science Museum ‘Count Me In’ Vote
...the majority of duplicate votes cast during this period have been removed. Internet polls face this risk and the Science Museum has implemented additional security measures to reduce this risk.

5984 were cast: 764 to counted in [alarmists] and 5220 to counted out [realists]. (Correct as at 16.20 Wednesday 28 October)
Supersize Me: Vestas Talks Up Giant Offshore Turbines - Environmental Capital - WSJ
...Each blade for such a wind turbine would be 70 meters long and would weigh more than 30 metric tons.
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Making wind turbines that large bring a host of engineering and economic challenges. Will the mammoth blades and gearboxes crack and break under the added weight and pressure? Will the gargantuan turbines be more expensive to produce and install than their oversized energy output can justify?
Offset your carbon emissions for $6.66 this Halloween
If global warming scares you, think about spending $6.66 to offset your carbon emissions this Halloween.

The Delta Institute, which sells carbon offset credits to corporations on the Chicago Climate Exchange, is opening up its books to the public.

For $6.66, you can offset 1 metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions. The number 666 is usually associated with evil, but the money will do some good in this case.
[On the Chicago Climate Exchange, current price to offset 1 ton of CO2: 10 cents]

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