Monday, August 09, 2010

Five reasons to rethink wind power
Wind farms are increasingly common sights no matter where in the world you live, but while the intentions of wind power advocates and generators are generally well-meaning, there are some serious problems and unintended consequences with the renewable option.
The BBC: still biased – Telegraph Blogs
There’s also a great moment where Jon Snow reveals how he just KNEW Hurricane Katrina had been caused by global warming. How? Using his remarkable power of intuitive sensory perception, that’s how!

    I was on the ground in New Orleans, and anyone who was there felt it was global warming.
U.N. climate pact could be three treaties – Mexico
"We are not just talking about one single legally binding instrument but a set of them," he said on the sidelines of a U.N. climate meeting in Bonn.

"One instrument will cover (parties to the) Kyoto Protocol but it is also possible to have something for the U.S. and a third one for developing countries," he said.
Reid Takes Away Renewable Energy Money to Bail Out States - Planet Gore - National Review Online
That sure is a ringing endorsement of Steven Chu and Team Obama.
Electric power, sticker shock - The Boston Globe
GM hopes to sell 10,000 Volts next year and 45,000 in 2012. That’s a far cry from Obama’s goal of 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015.

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