Thursday, October 15, 2009

Frozen explorer still claims warming | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Hmm, that name “Pen Hadow” sure sounds familiar. Why, wasn’t he the global warming preacher who had to be rescued half way through his expedition when he found the North Pole far, far colder than he’d expected?
Just two Socialists gave Obama his Nobel | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
War breaks out among the committee for the Nobel Peace Prize:

Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama, the Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) reported Thursday…
C3: Climate Scientists Spend $50+ Billion And Let World's Climate Station Reporting Network Collapse Into Shambles
The U.S. government climate scientists and agencies, plus the UN's IPCC, have allowed the once globe-spanning climate station network to shrink to a fraction of its previous size. In addition, as has been well documented, the majority of the remaining stations have serious maintenance and siting problems that result in reported temperatures having a significant upward bias. Despite spending billions on global warming climate research, the responsible climate scientists and agencies have managed to squander an immense resource built by the previous generation of scientists. The result has been the growing disbelief of both global temperatures being reported and the wildly wrong climate model predictions that these same climate scientists produce.
Green Ink: No Free Lunch With the Climate Bill - Environmental Capital - WSJ
The Senate’s climate bill will have a moderate economic impact and will lead to a net loss of jobs in the short term and a decline in GDP in decades to come, the head of the Congressional Budget Office testified. The CBO analysis belies some claims made by the Obama administration that the energy and climate bill will be a motor of economic growth and jobs creation, in the WSJ and the WaPo.
Earmarks Sap Energy Chief's Priorities - WSJ.com
Energy Secretary Steven Chu set out this year to address America's energy future with a network of new research labs. But lawmakers drafted their own blueprint: Instead of fully funding Dr. Chu's request, an energy-spending bill sets aside millions of dollars for such projects as an aviation-research institute, an environmentally friendly locomotive and air conditioning for a New Jersey museum.
U.S. ‘Deeply Committed’ to Solving Climate Change (Update1) - Bloomberg.com
The U.S. is “working aggressively to restart the nuclear industry,” Chu said. “I believe the nuclear waste problem is solvable on a scientific level and a political level.”
Flashback: Good riddance to Yucca Mountain. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
Obama pulls the plug on the nuclear industry's last best hope.

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