Harry Reid’s Pet Green Project Goes Solyndra on Him - Townhall.com Staff
Another federally subsidized green project bites the dust. The Amonix solar facility in Las Vegas, according to former employees, has been out of operation since May of this year. The solar facility was backed by $21.5 million in federal grants and tax breaks. Naturally, Harry Reid was an early and vocal supporter of this undertaking.Booming North Dakota City Shows Wisdom of Markets - Michael Barone
This tale of two cities has a moral, which is that no political or governmental leader can forecast the future. Barack Obama and his Nobel-Prize-winning energy secretary thought solar panels were a huge growth industry. They bet billions of tax dollars and lost.- Bishop Hill blog - Yeo fights for his right to trough
True, many private investors guessed no better. But they were risking their own money, not ours. And, yes, government research provided some early help in developing fracking.
But Fremont and Williston are more evidence, if any is needed, that the collective decisions of participants in economic markets do a better job of allocating resources than the often contributor-driven decisions of a few politicians.
Williston's jam-packed motels and trailers don't look as glamorous as the Solyndra headquarters in Fremont. The weather in North Dakota is seldom as pleasant as the microclimate of the East Bay.
But the Bakken shale is doing much more for America's economy than the shuttered solar panel plant.
Tim Yeo, the Tory MP who runs the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee, is all over the newspapers this morning, in an ongoing war of words between his committee and the Treasury, who seem to be trying to reduce the amount of money handed over to green energy projects, much to the distress of the MPs...Climate Expert Dr. Michael Mann Plans Libel Suit Against The National Review - Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal - AGU Blogosphere
Interestingly, only the Telegraph seems fit to mention Yeo's various interest in green energy businesses and his chairmanship of the Renewable Energy Association.
it’s called the “Hockey Stick”, and let me say right here, that no matter what you may read on the internet, this image has stood the test of dozens of reviews and investigations. Every scientific peer group that has looked at it says it’s good science and if anyone tells you differently, they are giving you political propaganda.
To put it in plain words- the graph is correct, get over it.
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Comment on Dan's wild science journal.
"Says the same people who assigned wire fraudster and identity thief Peter Gleick to be Chairman of the AGU Committee on Scientific Ethics.
Says the same people who hired Chris Mooney as the voice of the AGU board of directors (allowing him time away for important character assassination duties at Desmog blog, no doubt).
Yeah whatever."
Might not make it past the 'moderator'.
In place of my comment (reposted above to save it from Slatterfield's bit bucket) he posted this;
Dan Satterfield said on 23 July 2012
Anytime I write something about Dr. Mann it seems I am flooded with comments that violate the comment policy here in a big way. It confirms my thoughts that his one accurate picture of the past 1000 years is a very powerful image.
My comment policy is quite clear and all comments are reviewed BEFORE being published. So please take the time to read it and save us both some time. I am tagging it on to this comment.
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Your opinions are welcome, but there are some rules.
A full name and working email address is REQUIRED if you want your comment posted. If you just want to call me names, no problem (I have been doing weather on TV for 30 years, I have a thick skin) just do not expect to see it posted.
Personal attacks on ANYONE are not permitted. I do not publish links to junk science papers/sites. This is not a platform for you to publicize junk science. I write this blog to do just the opposite. On the other hand, if it’s something published in a journal, let me know the cite, so I do not have to hunt for it.
If I have made a mistake, I will correct it immediately. Anyone writing several posts per week is bound to make an error, the correct thing to do is to correct it as soon as possible.
I did post my full name under my working email address.
If Slatterfield was flooded with comments that "violate the comment policy here in a big way", which I doubt, then that would be a problem of the policy.
My experience with posting to GHG advocacy blogs linked by Tom, suggests this is highly unlikely.
No what happened is I posted the unfortunate truth about the AGU's position on global warming, and showed it out for being purely political.
Telling the truth about AGU political hires he could not abide.
That's what stuck in his craw.
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