Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Most Canadians don't do "enough" to fight climate change: survey.
When it comes to helping the environment, most Canadians don't even give themselves an ``A'' for effort.

Only one in five people say they're doing as much as they can to reduce their impact on climate change, according to a national survey released Wednesday.

However, about 80 per cent of respondents to the World Wildlife Federation survey said they want to do more to reduce their environmental impact.
Inconvenient Carbon Truths About China : Greentech Media
Richard Muller is President of Muller & Associates, Professor of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley and Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
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Global warming, according to Muller, "is a serious problem, but it has been exaggerated by Al Gore and Tom Friedman." Almost everything said in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was exaggerated, in Muller's view.
Pajamas Media » The Inevitable Failure (by Design) of Cap and Trade
Even if the global warming malarkey were true, cap and trade would actually cause the problem it seeks to remedy.
“Big Oil” Wants a Carbon Tax on Motor Fuels: Back to 1919? — MasterResource
Government intervention giveth and taketh away. (Could the same be predicted for the ’starter’ carbon levy?)
“Wind power Is No Solution To Anything” A Guest Weblog By Henk Tennekes « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.
Wind energy is an engineer’s nightmare. To begin with, the energy density of flowing air is miserably low. Therefore, you need a massive contraption to catch one Megawatt at best, and a thousand of these to equal a single gas- or coal-fired power plant. If you design them for a wind speed of 15 m/s, they are useless at wind speeds below10 m/s and extremely dangerous at 20 m/s, unless feathered in time. Remember, power is proportional to the CUBE of the wind speed. Old-fashioned Dutch windmills needed a two-man crew on 12-hour watch, seven days a week, because a runaway windmill first burns its bearings, then its hardwood gears, then the entire superstructure. This was the nightmare of millers everywhere in the ‘good’ old days.
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Wind power is a green mirage of the worst kind. It looks green to simple souls, but it is a technical nightmare. Nowhere I have been, be it Holland, Denmark, Germany, France, or California, have I seen wind parks where all turbines were operating properly. Typically, 20% stand idle, out of commission, broken down. Use Google Videos to find examples of wind turbine crashes, start meditating, and reach your own conclusions.

1 comment:

People In The River said...

I guess it is just because Canadians can not feel much pressure from population and limited resources as others do.