Monday, February 13, 2012

Energy companies attacked as hypothermia deaths soar

There were calls for energy bills to be slashed last night as evidence emerged of a dramatic rise in deaths from hypothermia.

The increased death toll coincides with a surge in energy prices, prompting extraordinary anger among campaigners.

Science Weekly podcast: Will climate change unleash geological mayhem? | Science | guardian.co.uk

Volcanologist Bill McGuire describes how rapid melting of glaciers and ice sheets as a result of climate change could trigger volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis.

EU open to negotiations but won't scrap airline carbon emissions tax, officials say | CanadianBusiness.com

"We're ready to negotiate within our framework," Siim Kallas, European Commission vice-president and transport commissioner, said at an aviation conference in Singapore. "We aren't trying to dominate the world."

Wind turbines are a 'public menace' and wind is the 'least efficient' renewable power, National Trust says | Mail Online

Wind turbines are a ‘public menace’, the chairman of the National Trust chairman has said.

Sir Simon Jenkins dismissed wind as the ‘least efficient’ renewable power.

The honest admission is surprising coming from the the head of the charity, as it champions green energy as part of its conservation work.

‘We are doing masses of renewables but wind is probably the least efficient and wrecks the countryside,’ he said.

NJ.com : Weather isn't climate - except when the carbon cultists say it is

At some point the enviros are going to realize there is no such thing as "green" energy and that the global-warming movement is an offshoot of the nuclear power industry.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

They are building windmills on Canada's Tantramar Marshes:
http://www.sackvilletribunepost.com/News/2012-01-11/article-2860881/----Acciona-still-hoping-to-build-wind-farm-on-Tantramar-Marsh/1

Tantramar comes from the Indian word - Tintamarre - which means noise from many birds.

And there is a waterfowl park there - as it is on the largest migration route in the world.

http://www.sackville.com/visit/attractions/waterfowl/

You might post this as a stand along.

From your old friend Lemon