Thursday, January 13, 2011

Peter Foster: The coming green car pileup | FP Comment | Financial Post
Given that the political wind has gone out of climate legislation in the United States, and that the science of global warming is looking less consensual than ever, there are even more reasons to doubt President Barack Obama’s Soviet-style objective of putting one million plug-in vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015.
1992: Climate Scientists Tell EU “Billions To Die By 2030″ | hauntingthelibrary
The following is a verbatim reprint of the Greenpeace press release covering the report:

Two German researchers, in a report for the European Commission, estimate that the total costs of climate change resulting from a doubling of carbon dioxide will exceed $900 trillion ($900 thousand billion).
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Starvation: an extra 900 to 1,800 million deaths
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The authors emphasize that they consider their estimates conservative

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