Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Coal: Climate change [scam] activists eye possible soft spot in new World Bank president -- 04/17/2012 -- www.eenews.net

The Obama administration has limited Kim's public comments to controlled settings, and he has offered no public glimpse of his views on energy development. Environmentalists say they have not engineered a common strategy, but there is widespread acknowledgement in the climate change community that their best bet for shifting the World Bank away from fossil fuels under Kim may well lie in appealing to his public health expertise.

"I would assume that he would get that a dirty coal-fired power plant, for example, is not great for people's health despite all the grand statements that come out of the World Bank that they'll have modern pollution controls," said Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

No warming for 15 years. The models MUST be wrong | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The warmist German magazine Focus reports that the science of warming isn’t actually so settled, after all:

Despite Kyoto, UK Carbon Footprint Bigger than Ever

The UK’s total net carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rose 35% between 1990 (the Kyoto Protocol baseline year) and 2005.

Skeptic's Corner: A Dark Day for Solar Power

"Renewable" energy subsidies have become an unaffordable feel-good luxury.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Ford CEO: Electric car battery costs $12,000 - $15,000 'for a type of car that normally sells for $22,000'

and the $15,000 battery [or $31,731 for the Nissan Leaf] has to be replaced every 6-8 years

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