Sunday, August 05, 2012

Arctic Row team could be iced in for ten days
“In conjunction with leading climate change researchers,” the team wants to “observe and highlight the pace and extent of climate change in the Arctic.”
Rethinking Polar Bear Evolution | The Resilient Earth
Still, green activists and climate alarmists continue to bewail the imminent demise of the polar bear, claiming that a warming world has no place for the great white bear. Balderdash. The latest scientific findings show that the polar bear has weathered worse climatic storms in the past. In fact, if asked to bet on who will survive the great global warming scam—the climate change alarmists or the polar bear—my money is on the polar bear.
The weather in July | UK news | The Guardian
Daytime temperatures were typically 1.0-2.5C below average. The Central England Temperature of 15.5C was 1.2C below the mean for 1981-2010.
NER 300: Prize fund for carbon capture projects shrinks by £800m | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The future of carbon capture and storage in Europe has been thrown into doubt after £800m was wiped off the value of a prize fund for developing the technology.
A ‘crazy’ tax: Barnaby Joyce - Local News - News - General - Armidale Express
“We’ve had two billion dollars put into the Clean Energy Fund, imagine if we had the capacity to put $5 million of that into further investment in bovine genetics at the University of New England,” he said.

“It’s not just the fact that we’re making a crazy tax that’s not going cool the planet, it’s not going to have any effect on the climate, we’re also taking money out of people’s wallets, making them poorer and investing in many instances in the least productive sectors of our economy.”
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“My solution is that human ingenuity is the one that takes us forward and human ingenuity is not inspired by a tax,” he said.

“People did not develop the wheel because they taxed walking, they did not develop the motorcar because they taxed horses and we are not going to develop a more efficient economy because we tax everybody.”

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