Saturday, April 02, 2011

EPA Whistleblower Criticizes Global Warming Science and Policy in New Peer-Reviewed Study | Competitive Enterprise Institute
Washington, D.C., April 1, 2011 – The scientific hypotheses underlying global warming alarmism are overwhelmingly contradicted by real-world data, and for that reason economic studies on the alleged benefits of controlling greenhouse gas emissions are baseless. That’s the finding of a new peer-reviewed report by a former EPA whistleblower.
The New Nostradamus of the North: Why are expert forecasts so often worthless?
One of the teams is being put together by University of Pennsylvania professor Philip Tetlock, whose ground-breaking 2005 book (Expert Political Judgment: How Good is It? How Can We Know?) analysed 27,450 predictions from a variety of experts and found they were no more accurate than random guesses or, as he put it, “a dart-throwing chimpanzee”.
Nissan Leaf sales stall « The Daily Bayonet
the firm boasted it would sell half a million Leafs (Leaves?) per year by 2013. In the first three months of sales, when all the hype and excitement is supposed to ‘help’ the marketing, Nissan has sold a total of only 452 vehicles.

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