Friday, March 19, 2010

Tories’ green bank to revolutionise power policy - Times Online
The policies will also include a measure that marks a return to the same principle used to defeat Nazi Germany in the 1940s. Mr Cameron will for the first time set out plans for government-backed green “war bonds” to help to finance energy projects of up to £200 billion that are considered critical for Britain to meet its goal of cutting carbon emissions by 34 per cent by 2020.
The danger of being hysterically green | MNN - Mother Nature Network
Chris Baskind, a noted green blogger and newest edition to the MNN team, found what he called "hysterical, opportunistic, overly broad nonsense" over at Change.org in a petition calling for the phasing out of all mining activity because of concerns that they cause earthquakes.
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We can't waste our time on dumb green ideas.

A green idea is dumb if it has no chance of really happening and just stands to turn off a lot of people to the cause when they hear it. An idea can have the best of intentions and ideals behind it and still be a dumb one, a lot of the times it's the ones with the best of intentions and ideals that end up being the dumbest.
[Copenhagen: During a blizzard, warmists attempt to save the world from overheating]
Bikes confiscated, cold bottoms from sitting on the snowy cement, wrists tethered behind our backs with Ziploc ties (they must’ve ran out of handcuffs), we sat calmly in the now blistering blizzard.
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More time passed by, and to our delight, we were given sandwiches for dinner. Turkey sandwich meat, red peppers and Danish cheese. Not bad. An angry vegan English girl in my cell was livid when they had no vegan alternatives though.
...After everyone was escorted to a Politi bus, we were transported to the closest S-train and officially released into the darkness of the night and enduring blizzard.

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