US urged to back $3.75bn South Africa loan for coal plant - POWER-GEN WorldWide

30 March 2010 - The World Bank has pressed the US government to support a $3.75bn loan that would allow South Africa to build a coal fired power station.
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“We cannot afford to see Eskom or the South African power sector in crisis. This will have a major backlash for the economy of the country and the economy of the region,” Jamal Saghir, the World Bank’s director of energy, told Bloomberg.

[Still more lunacy from Greenpeace:  Can the iPad really cause hurricanes?]

International — On the eve of the launch of the iPad, our latest report warns that the growth of internet computing could come with a huge jump in greenhouse gas emissions. We follow the data streams back to the data centers providing a cautionary tale about how the boom could see internet servers become a major cause of climate change.
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...the report also shows how IT can avert climate chaos by becoming a transformative force advocating for solutions that increase the use of renewable energy.

Dennis Avery: Energy Secretary Admits We Don’t Understand Climate Change

Our Nobel-winning Energy Secretary is bravely soldiering forth to spend umpteen-trillion dollars of the public’s money to forestall a global warming he doesn’t understand?

The Hockey Schtick: Dr. Nils Axel Morner's Reply to Maldives Sea Level PR Stunt

Your cabinet meeting under the water is nothing but a misdirected gimmick or PR stunt. Al Gore is a master in such cheap techniques. But such misconduct is dishonest, unproductive and certainly most un-scientific.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Rehabilitating Pharaoh

(5) The Al Gore of 1500 BCE: Rivers filled with frogs. Plagues of locusts. Cattle dying. No wonder Pharaoh didn’t let the Hebrews go. His heart wasn’t “hardened,” as the Jewish version goes. He just thought these were the natural consequences of global climate change.

Watt-Cloutier: [The Inuit can adapt to anything except fluctuations in trace atmospheric gases?]

Watt-Cloutier also said Inuit are not “powerless victims” and that over the past 50 years, Inuit have “weathered the storm of modernization remarkably well” and will continue to adapt to change.

“People think we are not adaptable. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is part of who we are, to be able to adapt,” she said.