Monday, September 19, 2011

How Do You Say ‘Solyndra’ in German? - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Really? The Germans would dump $29 billion into this?
Sociologist: Global warming could lead to "nuclear exchange" between India and Pakistan
Reality check:

This year India has experienced an all-time record harvest - which has created serious problems due to lacking storage capacity. So, not very likely that climate change is throwing the country "into an ever deeper agricultural crisis" and certainly not to an "Indo-Pak nuclear exchange".
More than 30 million climate migrants in Asia in 2010, report finds | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Numbers of people displaced by environmental and weather-related disasters likely to increase, Asian Development Bank warns
Assuming the above number isn't completely made up, how do these qualify as "climate" migrants, rather than "weather" migrants?  If one of every 233 people on Earth moved because of bad weather last year, how many of every 233 moved because of bad weather in the year 10 or the year 1010?

Climate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Climate (from Ancient Greek klima, meaning inclination) is commonly defined as the weather averaged over a long period. The standard averaging period is 30 years

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