Marc Morano on FBN's 'Money,' 6/30/2012 - YouTube
Vaclav Smil - A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy - IEEE SPECTRUM July 2012
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John Stossel has a great link-filled round up of failed and failing solar and green energy programs funded by the Obama Administration with our money. Check out the extensive list.
Here, for laughs, is Ray Lane of Kleiner Perkins rhapsodizing about Obama as the greatest government venture capitalist ever, and using for his prime example … Solyndra!
"This Is Just the Beginning": Forest Fires, Deadly Storms, Record Heat Reveal a Changed Climate
So this was a fire of a ferocity that hasn’t been seen before.
Global Warming Fosters High-Latitude Cooling??
...with the latter set of researchers suggesting that "the occurrence of more severe Northern Hemisphere winter weather is a two-decade-long trend starting around 1988."
- Bishop Hill blog - (Lack of) warming since 1995
I'm not sure they leave us any the wiser. The problem (well, one of the problems) with discussing statistical significance is that you have to have a model for what the climate does normally. Since nobody knows what model should be used, it's not clear to me that we can say anything very much about the significance of the changes in temperature in the last decades or the last hundred years.
Scientists share blame for public’s ignorance of science | Print Edition - Physics Today
[Krosnick's] research results do not support the widespread perception among scientists that the media are perpetuating a false balance between the vast majority of scientists who say that climate change is occurring and the small minority of scientist skeptics. A survey of articles about climate change over the past 10 years shows that the media, with the exception of Fox News, have rarely quoted the skeptics. And even Fox included the dissenters in less than one-third of its climate change news reports, he added.
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