Solar Powered Charger from Scosche Is Small...In More Than One Way : TreeHugger

...a solar charger that takes 4-5 days to charge one small battery seems like a waste of materials, with a bigger embodied energy input than its output can ever really justify.

EU Referendum: Where our money goes

Of one thing, I am certain, however, the total – over term – runs to many billions. These sums here are just the tip of the iceberg. We could have bought our aircraft carriers, with change to spare, from the amount of money frittered away on climate change.

Credibility is what’s really melting - Mark Steyn, Opinion - Macleans.ca

“Climate change” is not a story of climate change, which has been a fact of life throughout our planet’s history. It is a far more contemporary story about the corruption of science and “peer review” by hucksters, opportunists and global-government control-freaks. I can see what’s in it for Dr. Pachauri and professor Hasnain, and even for the lowly Environmental Correspondent enjoying a cozy sinecure at a time of newspaper cutbacks in everything from foreign bureaus to arts coverage.

But it’s hard to see what’s in it for Dan Gajewski of Ottawa and the millions of kindred spirits who’ve signed on to this racket and are determined to stick with it. Don’t be the last off a collapsing bandwagon. The scientific “consensus” is melting way faster than the glaciers.

Keep a cool head on climate change: Freezing winter weather exposes weakness of wind power

Lord Stoddart said: "These figures show once again that wind power is at its most unreliable when our need for power is at its peak. The weather trend for the last three years has been for successively colder winters and we find that the much vaunted wind turbine system lets us down every time. How can we possibly rely on this grossly over-expensive subsidised system to replace the coal fired power stations we must start shutting down in three years time at the behest of the European Union? Far from recognising the fundamental weakness of the wind system, the Government's answer is to build thousands more turbines. It doesn't matter how many turbines we install, if the wind isn't blowing because of cold, still winter days, the blades won't turn. Unless there is an urgent rethink of Government policy on power generation, we really are going into a dark and cold age."