Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Tesla’s Private Jet - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online
This is just priceless. Why would a start-up company that needs to watch every penny have access to a private jet? I guess Stephen Chu and his team missed that expense item when deciding to bail them out with taxpayer funds.
The EPA’s Carbon Footprint - Reason Magazine
The problem: It makes no sense to set ambient air quality standards for greenhouse gases. There is simply no way for state and local regulators to ensure that individual cities, or even larger regions, meet an air quality standard for a globally dispersed atmospheric [non-]pollutant. Local emissions could be reduced to zero, and a given area would still violate the standards if global emissions did not decline. It would be a pointless regulatory exercise.
Tom Friedman Today - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Don't call it global warming, call it "global weirding."
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A better name would be "New Coke," as nobody is buying it.
Global Warming: What’s Credibility Got to Do with It? | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
Now it seems large corporations are jumping ship. BP, ConocoPhillips and Caterpillar all left the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (US CAP), a coalition of business and environmentalists that support legislation to reduce greenhouse gases such as cap and trade. With trillions of dollars on the table and up for grabs, corporations worked hard for a seat at that table in search of corporate welfare at the expense of the consumer. It’s no surprise 2009 was a record year for lobbying on energy issues.
Does Bill Gates Get Climate Change [Fraud]? | Openly Balanced
...whatever you may think of him, it’s hard to argue with the fact that he’s a game changer. Gates has tremendous public and financial clout, and a very different and much wider audience than most of the people currently working to address climate change. So when he stands up and declares that climate change is the key issue and redefines the metric for success in such a dramatic way, it is a really big deal. It will be interesting to see who was listening.

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