Spot the conflict: GE owns NBC, the Weather channel and lots and lots of wind turbine factories « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

How much money does GE make from green philosophies? I don’t know, but GE wind explains that their most widely used wind turbine has produced no less than 16,500 bird killing, bat chopping versions planted around the globe, though they don’t say it quite like that. They have big plans for it. Their “ecomagination commitments for 2010 – 2015″ are planned to “double R&D to $10 Billion…”  So that’s just $2 billion a year that GE will spend on green R & D for the next 5 years?

Remember, Exxon have been controlling this debate by funding deniers with a measly $2 million a year (which stopped years ago). It just puts things in perspective…

FEMA Director: Frequency of Tornadoes Cyclical, Won't Say If Global Warming Involved | CNSNews.com

(CNSNews.com) – Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Craig Fugate said the frequency of tornadoes and hurricanes is cyclical, and he doesn’t know if global warming has anything to do with it.

“If you look back for the amount information we have going back to about 1850s, you’ll see a cycle, and it’s over decades of increased activity and decreased activity,” Fugate said. “And so that cycle has been there. As far anything driving that, I’d really defer to climate scientists.”

Healy coal plant supporters, environmentalists collide in energy protests over restarting plant

More than 100 people showed up at the headquarters of the Northern Alaska Environmental Center offices on College Road to show their support of the Healy Clean Coal Project. The group, carrying signs bearing slogans such as “Support Working People” and “No to Environment Wackos” was met by an equal number of NAEC supporters armed with signs reading “Climate Change is Real” and “Stop Subsidizing the Gold Mines on our Backs.”

...The clean coal plant cost more than $300 million to build and is owned by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, a state public corporation charged with promoting, developing and advancing economic welfare, according to the AIDEA website. 

The project was funded with a $120 million Department of Energy grant, $150 million from AIDEA , $25 million from the Alaska Legislature and $10 million plus in-kind contributions from GVEA and Usibelli Coal Mine.