Fore! Cash for Clunkers Hits the Links » The Foundry

Golf Cart Man is referring to his offer in which you can buy the cart for $8,000, get a $5,300 tax credit off your 2009 income tax, lease it back for $100 a month for 27 months, at which point Golf Cart Man will buy back the cart for $2,000. “This means you own a free Golf Cart or made $2,000 cash doing absolutely nothing!!!” You can’t blame a guy for exploiting loopholes that Congress offers.”

Texas: Field of Dreams for Wind - Drew Thornley - Planet Gore on National Review Online

So, to recap: $1.5 billion of Chinese-built windmills are going to go up in West Texas, thanks in no small part to "an assist from the United States government in the form of loan guarantees and grants from the federal stimulus package. . . . 'This wind farm project came about thanks to the openness of the United States for investments in the field of renewable energy.'" Translation: Were it not for your hefty government handouts, we wouldn't be doing this. For all you baseball fans out there, translation: If you subsidize it, they will come.

Granted, simply building more and more and more windmills (and solar panels) won't make them cost efficient — because you still have to deal with wind's intermittency and volatility, a current lack of commercial-scale electricity storage, and an electric grid not built for the large-scale addition of remote renewable energies — but at least the $1.5 billion dollars will create "roughly thirty" jobs.

Dalton Minimum Returns: Its Time To Prepare For Another Dalton Minimum

James William Smith writes his views on the return of the Dalton Minimum. I was thinking of writing about the impacts when I read that Canada's grain production was down 20% this year due to the wet cold weather. Not climate change yet, just weather but we need to keep our eyes open and plan ahead should a long string of winters reduce the Canadian, Russian and US grain production.

Charles Adler: Venus Flytrap Climate Scam

Does anyone have any clue as to how expensive it is to run a country where the government is intimidated by Suzuki Sycophants and Al Gore Groupies and Venus Fly traps?

Gullible eager-beaver planet savers - Mark Steyn - Macleans.ca

‘The environment’ is the most ingenious cover story ever devised for Big Government

Lord Monckton: Who is Al Gore Nemesis, Lord Monckton?

Lord Monckton is one man railing against the charlatans of Climate Change.

It won’t be the last time–hopefully–we hear from this brave Brit.

Climate Research News » EU Emissions Trading Scheme Costs UK Consumers £3 billion a Year

A new report (PDF) from the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) reveals the high costs being imposed on British and European consumers by the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The ETS is intended to reduce carbon emissions across Europe by increasing the cost of energy for households, businesses and other organisations. This increases household bills, but also increases business running costs and the cost of running public services such as hospitals.