Friday, March 23, 2012

SAY WHAT???? Obama Plays Blame Game on Solyndra – “But Understand: This Was Not Our Program, Per Se”

While the president claims he’s not responsible for Solyndra, the facts say otherwise. After the Solyndra loan guarantee was rejected in the waning days of the Bush administration, it was quickly placed back on the fast track shortly after President Obama’s inauguration. Despite repeated warnings from OMB and DOE experts, Solyndra’s loan guarantee approval was rushed through. When the warnings of failure by the DOE and OMB experts came true and Solyndra was out of cash in the autumn of 2010, the Obama administration doubled down on their bad bet, restructuring Solyndra’s loan in early 2011 and putting wealthy investors at the front of the line ahead of taxpayers. As they say, the rest is history, and taxpayers are now on the hook for half a billion dollars.

Scotland To Become A ‘Wind Farm Landscape’, Warn Planners | JunkScience.com

Scotland’s countryside will become a “wind farm landscape” as hundreds more turbines are built to meet the SNP’s radical green energy targets, the country’s most senior planning officials have warned.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » The newly released CRUT4 shows many warmer tweaks over the Australian region

Moscow On The Potomac | Real Science

A couple of years ago, it was cold in DC so Moscow defined global climate. Now that it is very cold in Moscow, Washington DC defines global climate.

FactCheck.org misrepresents the dangers of carbon dioxide | Just Facts Daily

Far more significantly, Robertson fails to mention that the study found “a 30 percent increase in above- and below- ground soybean biomass” among the crops exposed to more CO2. In plain language, these soybean plants grew 30% larger. They did, in fact, “like” the added CO2.

WV Prof: Marine Murderer, Urinators ‘More Dishonorable’ than Climate Deniers — For Now | JunkScience.com

“Right now, public opinion is likely to judge the liars who got us into a futile orgy of unnecessary civilian killing as more dishonorable than brazen climate-change obfuscators; a few decades hence, opinion may swing the other way.”

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