Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Failure of 'Super Greenhouse Gas' Deal Raises Stakes in Copenhagen | SolveClimate.com
Negotiating with less than full support from the administration at home, the U.S. team was also blindsided by simmering resentment among developing nations. It proved no match against the Chinese and Indian delegations. Largely for monetary reasons, both sat stubbornly opposed to the amendment and prevailed.
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Advocates are doing their best to put a happy face on the outcome, but the failure to act on phasing down HFCs is a disappointment, and it provides a preview of an outcome that many fear could easily be repeated on a larger scale in Copenhagen.
Heliogenic Climate Change: AAAS off the deep end
As world leaders prepare for the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in early December, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) will open a new exhibit with striking photos of climate change around the world. A companion display shows what some school children are doing to address the issue.
[Why not "destroy the planet" only five days per week?] - Telegraph
People should go vegetarian for at least two days a week in order to save the planet, according to a new report.
How Green Are Your Nukes? - Reason Magazine
Once an opponent of nuclear power, Stewart Brand is now a big backer. With regard to the safety, cost, waste handling, and weapons potential of nuclear power, Brand writes, “I’ve learned to disbelieve much of what I’ve been told by my fellow environmentalists.” On safety, Brand notes, “year after year, the industry has had no significant accidents” in the operation of the world’s 443 civilian nuclear plants. “Radiation from nuclear energy has not killed a single American,” asserts Brand.
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Somehow Gore’s cost consciousness gets lost when he considers solar power, however. In his solar power chapter, Gore does a lot of hand-waving about future photovoltaic cell breakthroughs and declining cost curves. Gore also decries lavish subsidies to nuclear power, but approvingly cites "the recent establishment by the U.S. government of new incentives for solar electricity," and state government requirements that utilities obtain a percentage of their power from high-cost renewable sources.
C3: Will Climate Change Make Earth Venus-Like? Only The Political-Elite Idiocracy Would Believe Such Nonsense
...Gore and his global warming CO2-acolytes frequently make statements about the existing Venus planet hothouse and how Earth would become the same due to human CO2 emissions. A totally bogus, and never-will-happen, claim that low IQ political and MSM "elites" believe in and promulgate.
Kevin Grandia | Friends of Science Ads Are Wrong and Should Be Pulled
The ads, currently running on radio stations across the country, make the claim that there, "Hasn't been global warming for over 10 years."

I put this to a couple of top climate scientists and both said, unreservedly, that this is an outright false statement.

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