Monday, July 12, 2010

Climate change needs a plain English guide
Our sea levels have risen around the country since 1993 with increases of 7-10 millimetres a year in the north and west, and 1.5-3 millimetres in the south and east. [So how did CO2 do that?]
[Something we agree on: The Tea Party *is* as dangerous as trace amounts of invisible, harmless, natural atmospheric gas]
I think they rank with climate change and nuclear proliferation as threats to humanity.
15 per cent of Sunderbans will be submerged: UNDP report - Global Warming - Environment - Home - The Times of India
KOLKATA: An estimated 15 per cent of the Sunderbans delta will go under the sea by 2020, the UN Development Programme has warned.
Barker cools hopes of new boiler plan | News | Heating and Ventilation News
The minister for climate change has appeared to rule out a further boiler scrappage scheme, saying that government efforts to retrofit Britain’s homes will focus more on galvanising private cash than doling out public money.
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Asked whether the government would consider whether any lessons from the boiler scrappage scheme could be applied to the new Green Deal, he said: “To simply hand out large dollops of government funding direct from the taxpayer isn’t sustainable or scalable. We need to get beyond these relatively small-scale [ideas] and deploy private capital on a far more ambitious and larger scale.”
[Given that Obama has completely failed to sell us the climate hoax so far, what are the odds that he'll successfully do that this month?]:  Why Obama is failing
We have a president that no one wants to listen to because we do not fully believe him. His own party is deserting him not just because they know his ideas are unpopular. They also know he is unable to convince anyone. We have shut him off.

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