Monday, October 17, 2011

Warning Issued for Massive Iceland Volcano - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Great news! When it blows, the ash should shade the planet and buy us a few years to prevent the global-warming Gorepocalypse. Who cares about the billions in potential economic damage to humans?
UT professor debunks 8 climate change ‘myths’ | San Marcos Mercury | Local News from San Marcos, Texas
Asked why the message that humans are causing climate change has been difficult to communicate, Orbach said that a major issue is that it seems simply too expensive to fix. The current remedies, he said, “are economically not viable, and as a consequence I think people are reluctant to try to go through the processes that are so expensive and so deleterious to the economy in order to respond to climate change. … Countries are not going to destroy their economy” to prevent climate change.
Alternative energy won’t make our future look all that different. - Slate Magazine
If we limit carbon dioxide to 550 ppm, IGSM predicts that fossil fuels will still be the United States’ biggest energy source in 2030. Our use of renewables will increase, but not by much.
Oversupply, sell-off keep UN carbon credits at historic lows | 17/10/11 | ICIS Heren
Oversupply and heavy selling has kept benchmark certified emission reduction (CER) prices below the Chinese floor price and taken carbon credit prices to historic lows in recent weeks, ICIS Heren assessments show.

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