Another stupid stunt: Xena Warrior Princess Arrested over Environmental Protests | JunkScience.com

In court last week Lucy Lawless, the actress most famous for her character Xena Warrior Princess, pleaded guilty to charges of illegally staying on a ship. 

In February Lawless and a few others were arrested after illegally boarding a ship owned by Shell which was on its way to the Arctic in order to drill for oil. They camped there for 77 hours in order “to tell the world that Shell has to be stopped from going to the Arctic.”

The IEA has had to Increase its Global Emissions Levels for 2030 | JunkScience.com

The International Energy Agency has released a new analysis that helps to demonstrate the systemic failure of policy analyses focused on carbon dioxide emissions reductions.

The pointless renewable energy target | Climate Nonconformist

The numbers say it all:

• Coal fired power station $79 per kw/h (kilowatt/hour)
• Gas fired power station $97 per kw/h – or 1.2 times the cost of coal power
• Wind power $1,502 per kw/h – or 19 (nineteen) times the cost of coal power
• Solar power $4,004 per kw/h – or 50 (fifty) times the cost of coal power

- Bishop Hill blog - Another nail in the CCS coffin

Jun 21, 2012 Climate: WG3 Energy

This is an excerpt from a speech given by Judith Hackett, the head of the Health & Safety Executive. Coming so soon after the news that CCS can cause earthquakes, one can't help but wonder if this is an idea that will now pass into obscurity