Electric car crashes | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Another green scheme bites the dust:

Spain’s plans to have 2,000 electric cars on the road by the end of 2010 have been dealt a blow as figures showed just 16 have been sold… In April, the government said it would invest 590m euros ($775m; £490m) in the production of electric cars.

Read the Expense Report: How Much for Four Cops to Interview Al Gore? | Willamette Week | Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

last week’s story about the Al Gore investigation, we noted that Portland police took the unusual step of sending four cops to San Francisco to interview the former VP. Current and former detectives told us that number was unheard-of in their experience.

As one law-enforcement official explained it, police may have used excessive resources this time because they’d already been burned on the case once. Chief Mike Reese was forced to admit the cops didn’t investigate thoroughly enough before closing the investigation last year.

GOOD GRUB GUIDE! The UN says eating creepy-crawlies will save the planet ... Our girl finds that hard to swallow | Mail Online

...if the United Nations gets its way, we might all soon be adding creepy-crawlies to our weekly shopping lists.

Climate Research News » Response to the Climategate Inquiries by Ross McKitrick

During the public uproar over the climategate emails, the main concerns that were repeated over and over
could be distilled to the following questions.

1. Did the scientists involved in the email exchanges manipulate, hide, invent or otherwise
misrepresent evidence in IPCC or WMO reports so as to mislead readers, including
policymakers?

2. Did the scientists involved delete emails or other documents related to the IPCC process in order
to prevent disclosure of information subject to Freedom of Information laws?

3. Did the scientists involved in the email exchanges express greater doubts or uncertainties about
the science in their own professional writings and in their interactions with one another than they
allowed to be stated in reports of the IPCC or WMO that were intended for policymakers?

4. Did the scientists involved in the email exchanges take steps individually or in collusion to block
access to data or methodologies in order to prevent external examination of their work?

5. Did the scientists involved in the email exchanges take steps individually or in collusion to block
publication of papers, or to intimidate or discredit journals, in order to prevent rival scientific
evidence from being published?

My examination of the Climategate inquiries centers on the extent to which they succeeded in providing
credible answers to these questions. As will be shown, the various inquiries reviewed evidence that leads
to an affirmative answer in each case, and in many cases the inquiries reached affirmative answers, yet
couched the conclusions in terms that gave the opposite impression. In other cases they simply left the
questions unanswered. In some cases they avoided the issues by answering irrelevant questions.