Is slavery the new green energy? | Environment | The Guardian

How many cyclists does it take to make a cup of tea? About 100, if you run your home on pedal power.
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One of the biggest problems was feeding the cyclists. "You would use more energy feeding them than the energy they produced," says Siddall.

Many of the cyclists were so exhausted that they were unable to walk for days. But Siddall is still confident that volunteer slavery will be the future economic model. "I have no doubt that slavery will return as the world's energy resources get increasingly scarce." This proved a little "off-message" for the BBC. "Its crew had a 20 megawatt generator to keep the lights and cameras going. So you will need around 1,000 slaves to make an hour of TV."

Power Line - Skeptical, For Better or Worse

It is perhaps a sad fact that most Americans are skeptical of what they are told by politicians, businessmen, college professors and other supposed authority figures. An extreme case is the United Nations: Rasmussen finds that only 22% of Americans consider the UN to be "a reliable source of information on global warming." So much for the IPCC "consensus" on climate change.

Whether we would be better off if we were a more trusting people is an interesting question. In this particular case, however, the skepticism is amply justified.

NASA: Climategate’s Second Shoe? | The Admonition

NASA may just be the second shoe to drop in climategate, more to come I’m sure. Chris Horner will either get the information he’s looking for by the Freedom of Information Act or by the lawsuit he’s planning. It’s a lose lose for NASA and the warmers.

'Climategate'; Praise to the Whistleblower!

The hero of ‘Climategate’ who retrieved the 1000 emails and 2000 documents from the East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, and who released those document onto the Internet for the World to see, did more for the American people in that one act, than Obama has done in the twelve months he has been in office.

GOP Whispers About Investigating Obama, 'Climategate' - Washington Whispers (usnews.com)

Republican foes of President Obama's bailouts of automakers and Wall Street, global warming proposals, and healthcare reform are eagerly considering investigating those programs should the GOP retake control of the House, according to several involved in the discussions. Topping the list is global warming and the controversy over whether supporters of curbing carbon dioxide output used "tricks" to promote their claims of disastrous climate change. "Just imagine 13 months from now when we have subpoena power," said one Republican involved.