Friday, September 30, 2011

Global warming spurs Swedish indoor ski park
Regardless of your own personal views on global warming our Swedish friends over at Danish megafirm C. F. Møller Architects seem to think it’s a big deal, enough to build a 750,000 square-foot winter wonderland.
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What’s the point of constructing a mammoth indoor ski park if by doing so will only add to the very phenomenon that necessitated it’s conception? Well, C. F. Møller is taking care to ensure that Skipark 360° is entirely self-sufficient, with renewable energy from geothermal wells, solar panels, wind turbines, and hyrdopower. Construction on the park is expected to begin sometime in 2013 or 2014.
2nd typhoon in week lashes rain-soaked Philippines - Forbes.com
Still, it is not clear that this is entirely because of climate change, especially in India, it said.
Make-believe schemes for a make-believe fix to a make-believe problem | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
The Gillard Government plans to cut our emissions by 160 million tonnes a year by 2020 actually involves paying foreigners for offsets for 100 million tonnes of that target.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu Gets White House Support - And Why That's Bad For Him
Chu is a manager at this point, he did not personally intervene for Solyndra, he listened to arguments and made a judgment call - but if he were not so anti-CO2 he looks at everything else through rose-colored-business-plan glasses, this would not have happened.

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