Tuesday, March 30, 2010

AGW Today: Biofuels May Kill Off The Flat Headed Cat : Stop The ACLU
In the push for more and more crazy, and barely above worthless, replacements for oil because oil is bad for the climate, or something stupid like that, there are real consequences
Forecasters at odds about warming threat - Washington Times
AccuWeather senior forecaster Joe Bastardi is another high-profile skeptic. "Common sense dictates that a trace gas needed for life on the planet would not be the cause for destroying life on the planet. Common sense dictates that what has happened before without man can happen again with man," Mr. Bastardi said. "Common sense would dictate that you not believe me, or any one else, but go look for yourself."
Shelve carbon tax plan to save jobs urges [Irish Farmers Association] - News & Features, Farming - Independent.ie
IRELAND should follow the lead of France and suspend its decision to introduce a carbon tax, the IFA has claimed.

Association president John Bryan said such a move would assist the country regain competitiveness.

He said the collective cost of the draconian tax would take €330m out of the economy, and cost thousands of jobs in the energy-intensive farming and agri-sector and other export-oriented industries.
[Warmists in the Arctic: Have we mentioned lately how miserably cold it is up here?]
I’m normally in a clean and warm laboratory when running experiments to look at the effects of changes in environmental conditions on the physiology of marine invertebrates.
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As with everything out here the main problem is the temperature. The sea surface is frozen, and so we’ve had to dig a hole close to the Ice Base so that it can be cleared every day of the ice that constantly re-forms on the surface.
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Obtaining this water is difficult at low temperatures. The lines freeze quickly, preventing the pump from working.

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