The winds of change | The Spectator

The government has finally seen through the wind-farm scam – but why did it take them so long?

To the nearest whole number, the percentage of the world’s energy that comes from wind turbines today is: zero. Despite the regressive subsidy (pushing pensioners into fuel poverty while improving the wine cellars of grand estates), despite tearing rural communities apart, killing jobs, despoiling views, erecting pylons, felling forests, killing bats and eagles, causing industrial accidents, clogging motorways, polluting lakes in Inner Mongolia with the toxic and radioactive tailings from refining neodymium, a ton of which is in the average turbine — despite all this, the total energy generated each day by wind has yet to reach half a per cent worldwide.  

If wind power was going to work, it would have done so by now.

Mann on Irreproducible Results in Thompson (PNAS 2006) « Climate Audit

Although Mann has much to say in his new book, he neglects to make any mention at all, that I can find, of the O’Donnell et al. refutation of his well-publicized paper with Steig et al.

C3: Peer Reviewed Research Confirms That Natural Climate Change Causes Unprecedented Warming

Climate science and consensus evidence is now moving to a position that natural climate change causes unprecedented warming (global and/or regional) - a major refutation of IPCC's denial of natural climate impacts

More Tom Friedman Hypocrisy | JunkScience.com

In “Take the Subway,” New York Times columnist Tom Friedman advocates living on a smaller scale. See where he lives.  

Here’s Tom Friedman’s home in tony Bethesda, MD — which is not too far from a Washington, DC Metro station

Is Catlin Camping This Year? | Real Science

Catlin insurance hopes to keep insurance rates and profits high by scaring people about global warming. Over the past few years they have sponsored a group of clueless victims to go camp on the Arctic ice during March, for the good of the planet – of course. This has lead to frostbite, hypothermia and extreme misery.

I wonder if it is even possible to survive camping at -49C?