Report: No Hybrid for Obama - U.S. News Rankings and Reviews

CBS News reports, “As he took questions at a North Carolina plant that makes battery components for hybrid cars, the president was asked about prospects for an electric-powered White House limousine. Mr. Obama revealed that when he first received Secret Service protection, he asked if he could ride in a hybrid vehicle. But his protectors rejected the idea.”

The problem, Autoblog Green explains, is the weight of the President’s ride. “The Presidential limo is about two to three times heavier than the average car,” thanks to the heavy armor plating and other security features it requites, so it “would not be able to accelerate with a hybrid powerplant.” Instead, the limo, built on the chassis of a GMC Topkick commercial truck but designed to look like stretched Cadillac DTS, “uses a heavy-duty diesel engine to move around.”

C3: Computer Models Predicting Species' Range Shift Due To Global Warming Fail Spectacularly In Bird Test

Climate alarmists state that most species will be forced to move substantial distances from their present territories because of global warming. The climate alarmist scientists developed models to predict just how far a species would move due to the increased warmth. Researchers compared the outcome of the models to the actual empirical evidence of birds shifting their territories in the Italian Alps. Surprise! As is most often the case, the computer models were wrong.

EU Referendum: The great drought (not)

Reading the warmist literature on Brazil, you would find it difficult to avoid the impression that that Amazon rain forest was in the grip of perpetual drought, on the brink of collapse. But, as we remarked earlier, warmist history stops in 2005 in the year of the last great drought. Since then, though, we have seen record rainfall.

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There is no need to consider whether my child might die from malaria, as nearly 900,000 children do every year, simply for lack of a $10 bed net to protect them from parasite-carrying mosquitoes.
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Medical breakthroughs and top-notch medical care are not required to save millions of lives each year. Pneumonia kills nearly 2 million. Diarrhea kills 1.5 million. Both are easily prevented and treated. Child blindness, too common in the developing world, can be prevented by just two Vitamin A pills per year. Total cost: about four cents. Better nutrition and safer birth conditions would annually save the lives of several hundred thousand pregnant women.