Saturday, February 13, 2010

Will Cape Wind Save Billions? Glenn Schleede Challenges Study by Charles River Associates — MasterResource
Frankly, the numbers in the slick 9-page “consultant” study released by the developer of the Cape Wind project of $4.6 billion in savings over 25 years just don’t add up for at least four major reasons
War and global warming
We have the institutions, the politicians and the media all on board. It's just those pesky people who insist on staying on the sidelines
Using dogs to adapt to global warming - The Globe and Mail
...a researcher is suggesting that the Quebec Inuit should try switching back from snowmobiles to dogsleds.
Socialist Alliance Tasmania: Climate Change
Socialist Alliance activists who participate in Climate Action Hobart were involved in the development of Climate Action Hobart’s 10 Steps for a Safe Climate Future.
The media’s ETS U-turn | The Spectator
There’s change in the air: the Fourth Estate’s changing tune on environmental policy. In the 18 months following the release of the Garnaut Report, the media lectured us that global warming, specifically opposition to Labor’s emissions trading scheme, would badly burn the Liberal party. Today, without missing a beat, the same journalists say the ETS is a political godsend for Tony Abbott, and Kevin Rudd will now try to avoid a double dissolution showdown on climate change. We’re all ETS sceptics now.
EVANS: Has global warming got you snowed in? - Washington Times
When the global-warming hoax eventually collapses, the victim will be science. When science suffers, we all suffer.
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Leonard Evans has a doctorate in physics from Oxford University and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers on many scientific subjects.
Utah Legislature: Professors blast climate-change disbelievers | Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — The ever-boiling controversy of climate change science bubbled over at a Friday evening press conference, with several members of the local academic community calling political disbelievers "irrational and unreasonable" in their pursuit of legislative nonsense.
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Characterizing the resolutions as absurd, University of Utah professor Phil Emmi said such legislative disbelievers muster their political clout in a variety of slick ways.

"They do not need to be reasonable, and they think they can get away with such nonsense," said Emmi, a professor of architectural planning. "They play on the fears of those who would be hurt by change. … They're conniving, irresponsible, but not dumb."

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