Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Thank You, British Taxpayers « NoFrakkingConsensus

If the British government really believes the danger from CO2-induced climate change is dire why hasn’t it banned the use of private jets, forbidden government employees from traveling, and fast-tracked new nuclear power plants? If the Titanic really is headed for the iceberg, surely one takes stern and immediate action.

WSJ: Japan Alternative-Energy Investment Stalls | JunkScience.com

More than a year after the accident at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture caused Japan to rethink its dependence on nuclear energy, uncertainty around the country’s energy policy continues to stymie investor interest in alternative energy.

Germany's nationalists Turn to Environmentalism (?)

"Spiegel" isn't a bad magazine. It sometimes takes potshots at Greenie policies. But they are being deliberately obtuse below. German nationalists didn't need to "turn" to environmentalism. They always were Green. Hitler was as much a nature romantic as any modern Greenie. And if you read the article below carefully you will see that environmentalism goes right back to the origins of the present nationalist party

Finally admitting they are simply greenies after all GOP green group drops ‘Republicans’ from name | JunkScience.com

Republicans of the non-RINO variety tend to be very environmentally friendly, they just know that development and wealth generation are necessary preconditions for genuine environmentalism.

The New Nostradamus of the North: The unique creativity of the UN bureaucracy

If there is anything that United Nations bureacrats are skilled in, it is establishing large new, overpaid and wasteful bureaucratic structures in order to "solve" mostly non-existing global problems. Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, is uniquely talented in this. His latest outburst of bureaucratic creativity includes the founding of a new "scientific board", of course with a large staff of advisers and other international officials.

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