Saturday, November 26, 2011

OPEC and Obama Team Up to Fight Major Energy Breakthrough

If you believe we’re going to live in a utopia of solar panels and windmills, think the world is coming to an end because of carbon dioxide, or happen to be an Arab sheik that's made a fortune off of America’s endless thirst for oil, you’re not going to like the change.

But if you want to invest in the future of American energy — and make some "evil" profits by helping accelerate the real American energy boom — then you’re going to like where things are headed...

Five Indians named 2012 Rhodes Scholars

Ishan Nath from Georgia is a senior at Stanford where he will receive Bachelors’ degrees in Economics and Earth
Systems, and with a minor in Mathematics.

His senior thesis focuses on clean energy and a national cap-and-trade emissions trading system. [a mind is a terrible thing to waste]

Michael McCarthy: Climate change isn't a left-wing cause – the Iron Lady knew that - Commentators - Opinion - The Independent

the progressive warming of the whole globe which appeared to be observable in the 1990s appears, since the millennium, to have plateaued.

No one really knows why. (A good guess is the Chinese sulphur aerosol: China's vast, exploding carbon emissions are accompanied by huge emissions of sulphur dioxide, which have the effect of cooling, rather than warming the atmosphere.) Yet that's not what matters.

Contrarians File for Intellectual Bankruptcy « Anti-Climate Change Extremism in Utah

[Warmist Barry BIckmore] As a working scientist, none of the quotes I have seen has been even remotely surprising

Lack of top level ambition undermining EU commitment to climate change | New Europe

Ireland, apparently, isn’t concerned about climate change; the government has abandoned a bill that would have set binding targets for an 80% reduction in net carbon emissions by 2050, established a national climate change strategy and introduced annual carbon budgets, all of which have now been jettisoned.

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