Monday, October 17, 2011

Frost threat puts chill on crops - Australia
SOUTH-eastern Australian crops have been damaged by frost over recent weeks – and the potential is still there for further events to cause more widespread problems.
Disdain for 'Right Wing' Position on Global Warming: 'We Look Like a Joke, Right?'
The Sunday Review cover story lament by New York Times environmental reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Where Did Global Warming Go?”, collected examples of conservative “climate deniers” (does anyone actually deny that climate exists?) being mocked by environmental experts like Bill Clinton, as well as all of Europe, for not signing on to crippling regulations in the name of halting rising temperatures.

Rosenthal is certainly a believer in the theory that man is making the temperature rise in harmful fashion; in her reporting she has blamed about every problem under the sun on global warming, even calling on China and India to turn off their air conditioners to save the planet in the August 28 edition of the Sunday Review.
Flashback: Enviro Reporter Rosenthal to China and India: Just Sweat It Out
Rosenthal's personal temperature preferences (she complains of shivering in air-conditoning crazy Hong Kong) are apparently to be locked in as global policy to fight greenhouse gases.
You Don't Say: Cost Of Green Energy 40% Higher Than Government Estimates
Ontario residents could end up paying some of the highest costs for electricity in the developing world because providing wind and solar energy will cost about 40 per cent more than government estimates, according to a new study.

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