Tuesday, December 01, 2009

CO2 is Not a Pollutant: Debunking a Global-Warming Myth « William Happer
I believe that the increase of carbon dioxide is not a cause for alarm and, in fact, will be good for mankind.
Heliogenic Climate Change: Reuters is the publishing arm of The Church of AGW
Keep in mind that this is supposed to be a "news" article from Reuters, not a press release from The Church of AGW (you're excused if you thought otherwise):
Barbara Boxer's Good News - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online
So green energy is so inefficient that it requires more than three times the labor to produce the same amount of energy. Whoopee.
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Doerr is also on the President's Economic Recovery and Advisory Board. Imagine that. The very companies that Doerr has investments in are the ones he is advising the president to use taxpayer money to fund. I know you guys all know this, but you'd think the Dem leadership would not be so brazen as to keep repeating it.
Idaho Plant Gets Permit With CO2 Limits - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
The company has five years to reduce its onsite carbon emissions to the levels required in the permit; until then, it will be allowed to purchase carbon offsets.
Senator Webb to Obama on Copenhagen: Don’t Do Anything Congress Can’t Do » The Foundry
While most Americans were out shopping on Black Friday, Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) was busy sending a letter to Barack Obama with an important message for the president to take to Copenhagen: Don’t forget about us.
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: An Exchange with Gavin Schmidt
So in the interests of giving Gavin a forum to set the record straight I have asked him the following questions:

1. Was there anything in the emails with respect to peer review specifically, that you find troubling or of concern? A yes or no is just fine.

2. If yes, please explain.

Gavin, I look forward to your responses
After Emergence of Climate Files, an Uncertain Forecast - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
So, in the end, Dr. Pielke appears to say, closer scrutiny of the surface-temperature data could undermine definitive statements of all kinds — that human-driven warming is an unfolding catastrophe or something concocted.
So if we don't understand how the climate works, should we spend $45 trillion trying to tweak a trace atmospheric gas, just in case that somehow "improves" things?

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