Monday, April 30, 2012

Sea Level Changes At Holyhead « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

sea level in 2008 is actually 3mm lower than 1998

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Two Reasons Why People Buy Electric Cars

2.  There is no meter on the electric line you plug into the car.  When you fill your car up with gas, you get to stand there watching the spinning money dial.  There is no parallel experience for plugging in an electric car.  The costs and fossil fuel use of an electric care are not necessarily less than the same size (e.g. subcompact) gasoline-engine car, it’s just better hidden.

Owners of electric cars are not smarter about managing the energy costs of their driving, they are substantially more ignorant.  I know exactly how many dollars of gas I have put in my car this month.  How many electric car owners have the first idea how many dollars of electricity they put in theirs?

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New study finds US public concern about 'climate change' near lowest levels since 2002

According to a paper published in the April 2012 edition of Nature Climate Change, the results of 74 different opinion surveys from 2002-2010 show US public concern about climate change reached a high point of 54% in 2007 and declined to about 44% in 2010. The study attributes these changes to decreasing media exposure and "cues from political elites," but fails to even mention Climategate as a factor.

‘Crucify Them’ - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

From Van Jones to Lisa Jackson, President Obama has surrounded himself with environmental radicals in order to tackle global warming — what he calls “the greatest moral challenge of our time” — and transform America to a green economy.

But these radicals not only share the president’s ideology, they also share his Chicago way of brass-knuckles persuasion.

James Inhofe | EPA Official Resignation | Al Armendariz | The Daily Caller

“It is not just Armendariz. There are a lot of other Armendarizes around,” Inhofe told TheDC, explaining the problem has not been solved with the Region 6 administrator’s exit.

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