Green technology not so green « The Daily Bayonet

Imagine if the Koch Brothers had demanded the EU give a pass to something they manufactured using CdTe. The leftosphere would implode under it’s own weight. Greenpeace, the NRDC and Sierra Club would be frothing at the mouth with indignation and calls for donations. But mostly calls for donations.

But because the tech in question is solar, and therefore green? Crickets, chirping.

“… the world’s most viewed climate website” | ThinkProgress

Some of you may have heard of “the well-known climate denier site, Watts Up With That” as Scientific American described it. If you visit it — think ‘birthers’ with better charts — you’ll see in the upper right-hand corner a quote from the author Fred Pearce: “… the world’s most viewed climate website.”
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Real science is compelling because it attempts to make sense of observations of the real world. Climate science denial is fundamentally incoherent – it isn’t trying to explain anything but merely aims to spread confusion about science and smear practicing scientists.

Top Scientist Says new Solar Wobble to Prolong Global Cooling | Suite101.com

Ivanka and other scientists insist that our sun, like most stars, has much variability and climate science must now begin to properly account for this. She cautions against blaming human emissions of CO2 when a previously ill-considered natural cause is more likely the key to our further understanding.