Sunday, September 12, 2010

Thomas Edison, You're Under Arrest - IBD - Investors.com
Eco-Extremism: A light bulb factory closes in Virginia as mandated fluorescents are made in China. It's now a crime to make or ship for sale 75-watt incandescent bulbs in the European Union. Welcome to green hell.
EMU Prof Gets NSF Grant For Climate Change [Hoax]
An Eastern Michigan University professor has been awarded a grant of nearly $1 million to promote educational partnerships in the Great Lakes region related to climate change.

Sandra Rutherford, a professor in the department of geography and geology, received the major award from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Climate Change Education Partnership: The Great Lakes Climate Change Science and Education Systemic Network.”
- Bishop Hill blog - Jones in El Pais
This is my adaptation of a part of a machine translation of an interview Phil Jones gave to the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
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Q. But there were periods as warm as the present.

A. Yes, but we know why there were warm and cold periods in the past. The amount of solar radiation was different and so we will have ice ages in the future. These processes are still happening and will continue, but they have a completely different timescale to humans. Here we are talking about climate change in a century that is very fast compared to the past.

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