Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Teenager shortlisted for climate [hoax] award | This is Plymouth

The Climate Week Awards recognise the best of what Britain has to offer in combating climate change, including outstanding achievements by individuals, businesses and communities. Climate Week, which runs from March 12-18, is Britain's biggest climate change campaign and is backed by the Prime Minister and Sir Paul McCartney.

One of four individuals short-listed for Most Inspirational Young Person, Leah impressed Climate Week as one of a group of young women representing the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts at the COP17 international climate change talks last year.

The American Spectator : Romney's Pending Sellout on Global Warming

The only hope for reviving cap and trade is for a newly
elected Republican President to propose it, undercutting
Congressional Republican opposition to it. Conservatives will rue
allowing Romney a pass to the nomination if he turns out to be that
guy.

Cheetah struggling to reproduce due to climate change, scientists warn | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The world's fastest animal has developed abnormal coils in its sperm as a result of warmer temperatures

Flashback: Cheetah numbers increase in Namibia due to guard dogs | Bengal Kittens and Big Cats Bulletin

Namibia’s cheetah population has increased by a third.

Price of Posturing | Mail Online

IS there anyone left in this country who seriously believes that wind power is a viable answer to Britain’s energy crisis? If so, today’s report from an eminent academic at Edinburgh University should make salutary reading.

Confirming similar studies, Professor Gordon Hughes finds that a wind turbine generating electricity worth £150,000 a year costs consumers £250,000 in subsidies.

By 2020, he predicts, wind power will cost us almost ten times more than the same amount of energy from efficient gas-fired power stations, with only marginal savings in CO2 emissions.

Yet still the Coalition presses blindly on, scarring our countryside with turbines while handing subsidies of £850million to around a dozen rich landowners.

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