Does money grow in wind farms? - Telegraph

Wind turbines are a poor way to harness energy - but a very good way to generate public subsidies, says Andrew Gilligan.

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Global Warming is Good For You

Reader Nate Winchester sends us over to Cracked magazine, which is where we now have to go to read fair and balanced journalism on global warming.

They tell us the obvious: warmer temperatures could mean greater crop production and fewer deaths from the complications of cold weather (such as freezing).

Relying on Cracked is sort of like how we had to wait for the National Enquirer to report the sordid story of ambulance chaser and Vice President wanna-be John Edwards.

It’s not all bad for traditional journalism: the main-stream press does do a solid job of reprinting SEIU press releases.

C3: Latest Peer-Research: Global Warming Causes Malaria Regions of World To Shrink, Dramatically

Since the Little Ice Age end, the globe has warmed. Global warming alarmists and IPCC scientists predicted that malaria would spread across the world as global warming occurred. As is almost always the case, the alarmist predictions were wrong.

Sleighing them on the slopes as snow season gets lift-off

VICTORIA'S ski-fields have enjoyed the best opening of the season in years, the resorts say, with enough snow and selected lifts operating for revellers to take to the slopes on skis and boards.
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''It hasn't got warmer than minus 3 for at least the last week,'' she said. ''That's pretty cold for Australia - there's no sign of climate change around here right now.''