Thursday, August 19, 2010

YouTube - Malcolm Turnbull Addresses Wentworth Voters
[Around the 30-second mark, Turnbull says "...the greatest long-term challenge we face is that of climate change. There can be no question about that."]
German Shock Readings: Climate Interest Barometer Plummets
This shouldn’t surprise anyone. People reading this website and looking at opinion polls around the world know that the public is sick and tired of all the hype about so-called climate change.


The oil that saved your ungrateful life - JSOnline
Droughts were the real weather killers, but thanks to the green revolution in the 1970s, people are far less likely to starve amid droughts. That revolution depended on fertilizers made from oil, writes Goklany, and irrigation, largely driven by fossil-fueled pumps, overcomes drought.
Caribbean Storm Damage Costs May Rise 50% With Global Warming - BusinessWeek
Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Climate change may add 50 percent to the storm damage costs incurred by some Caribbean nations over the next two decades, said Swiss Reinsurance Co., the world’s second-largest re-insurer. [Don't they have an enormous vested interest in selling this alarmist idea, since greater fear of future storm damage means higher insurance premiums today?]

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