Yet another costly green plan hits the wall | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Count up the Government’s green scams and failures:

The $2.5 billion free insulation fiasco - wildly rorted and responsible for nearly 200 housefires and four deaths
The solar hot water scheme - wildly rorted
Green loans debacle - scrapped after rorting and cost blow-out
The emissions trading scheme - shelved after concerns it will blow the Budget
The “green car” scheme - cars meeting buyer resistance, despite big subsidies

The Botched Examination of the Back-Up Server « Climate Audit

The more one reads the documents of the Muir “Holyrood” Russell, the more it is a litany of incompetence, already evidenced by the failure of Muir Russell and other panelists to even attend the Jones and Briffa interview. The botched “efforts” to examine the balance of the emails in the back-up server is another sorry episode.
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Sommer reported on May 17. UEA elected not to authorize the analysis. Muir Russell’s ineptitude and inertia resulted in no attempt being made to even begin an examination of the other emails until late April, and by mid-May, they decided it was already too late to bother.

allAfrica.com: President Kaberuka Will Attend Second High Level Advisory Group On Climate Change [Swindle] Financing

The African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, will join other distinguished personalities at the second meeting of the High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing scheduled to take place from 12-13 July 2010 in New York.

The event will be the second meeting of the High Level Group and it will consider reports from Working Groups which examined a range of potential public and private sources of finance The Copenhagen Accord sets out the objective of mobilizing $100 billion per year in additional resources by 2020.

Pacific Crest Trail Thru-Hike Journal

Snow! That's the word that will be associated with the Pacific Crest Trail for the thru-hikers of 2010. I have been running into snow for over 500 miles. Yesterday, for example, (summer in the mountains of California) I walked for miles in snow that completely covered the trail so it was a matter of navigating over the terrain to where the trail might be visible again. At times there were a good six feet plus of granular snow. On the other hand, probably 15 miles of the 23 mile day were snow free, or nearly so.

» Toxic Environmental Regulations Poison the Job Market - Big Government

Consider three job-killing measures imposed by this administration in a single area: environmental regulation...