[California to blow more public money on the climate hoax]

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is announcing new research contract focused on the Economics of Climate Change. This funding opportunity is open to researchers affiliated with the University of California or California State University systems.

The billion-dollar hoax | Herald Sun

ONCE global warming was the "great moral challenge of our generation". Or so claimed the Prime Minister.

But suddenly it's the great con that's falling to bits around Kevin Rudd's ears.

In fact, so fast is global warming theory collapsing that in his flurry of recent speeches to outline his policies for the new decade, Rudd has barely mentioned his "moral challenge" at all.

Take his long Australia Day reception speech on Sunday. Rudd talked of our ageing population and of building stuff, of taxes, hospitals and schools - but dared not say one word about the booga booga he used to claim could destroy our economy, Kakadu, the Great Barrier Reef and 750,000 coastal homes.

What's happened?

Answer: in just the past few months has come a cascade of evidence that the global warming scare is based on often dodgy science and even outright fraud.
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And with Europe, the United States and China hit with record cold and snow this winter, no wonder Kevin Rudd has suddenly gone cold on global warming, the mad faith that has cost us so many futile billions already.

How to Make a More Efficient Light Bulb? Make it Dimmer - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

A recent assessment by Ecos, which develops energy efficiency programs for government agencies and utilities, revealed that most of the new bulb models in California are near the low end of the allowable brightness range for their class, and many are significantly dimmer — sometimes by 10 percent or more — than the models they replaced.

This means a significant chunk of the energy savings associated with the bulbs is the result of reduced light levels, rather than improved efficiency.

“I would draw an analogy to a new type of furnace that buyers thought would keep them just as warm with less natural gas consumption by operating more efficiently,” said Chris Calwell, a senior research fellow with Ecos. “If, instead, the furnace saved energy by running less often and making the house colder, many buyers would feel cheated.”

“Yes, they saved energy,” he added, “but only by giving up some of the functionality or capability they thought they were buying.”

Defamatory? So sue me, Gavin. I triple dog dare you. | CLIMATEGATE

On Friday, Gavin Schmidt, a senior alarmist climatologist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, denied that he and other scientists had cherry-picked the data to manipulate the outcome.

“The idea that we’re fraudulently cutting out stations is appallingly defamatory and ignorant,” he said.

Well, Gavin, you would say that, wouldn’t you? So, I say back to you, if you feel my reporting is “defamatory and ignorant,” then put up or shut up; please feel free to file suit, but make sure you spell my name right: there’s an apostrophe in O’Sullivan.