Thursday, October 01, 2009

Windmills: Bigger waste than eHealth - FP Comment
Wind reduces CO2 emissions at a subsidy cost of about $124 per tonne — one of the most expensive plans in the world
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Partly mesmerized by Danish wind industry propaganda, the Ontario government has embarked upon a similar exercise in economic and environmental folly. When the full costs of this misadventure are revealed — billions of dollars over the next 20years — the province’s recent financial scandals at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission and eHealth will seem trivial in comparison. This is the real political scandal in Ontario, upon which we should all be focusing our attention.
PrairiePundit: The Boxer-Kerry pollution taxes
Neither Boxer or Kerry have the intellect to manage the energy economy. They do not even have the intellect to recognize they are not smart enough for this challenge.
C3: Why Can't Climate Models Predict? Because IPCC Climate Models Amazingly Ignore 4 Billion Years of Earth's History
Read here. Earth's climate and environment has suffered from a wide range of extremes over billions of years. Yet climate models extrapolate their predictions from conditions experienced during mid-1970's to late 1990's - definitely, an incredibly microscopic view of actual Earth climate history.
Australian Climate Madness: Turnbull threatens to quit over ETS
You have got it so, so wrong. Why should the only alternative to meekly agreeing to the ETS be "a party of no ideas"? Straw man I'm afraid. The alternative is to say firmly: wait until after Copenhagen. It's very simple. And what's all this nonsense about "effective action on climate change"? Everybody knows (apart from you, apparently), that the ETS will do nothing whatsoever for the climate. How can we spell this out any more clearly?

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