Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Will 2012 Be The Worst Hurricane Season Ever? | Real Science
Perhaps 2012 will turn out to be worse than 1886, when the US was hit by seven hurricanes – including two major hurricanes.
Does President Obama really care about global warming? - PostPartisan - The Washington Post
...The president’s is a record of dashed hopes. The man who promised in 2008 to stop the rise of the oceans put health-care and financial reform before capping carbon dioxide emissions. By 2010, a Senate climate bill died as much by presidential neglect as anything else. Environmentalists were "shell-shocked," said Smith.
To Add Jobs, Many in California Look to Alter Green Law - NYTimes.com
In San Francisco, the city’s plan to paint bicycle lanes, one of the main goals of environmentalists, was delayed for four years by a lawsuit filed by a local resident who claimed that the lanes could cause pollution.

And it is not only big projects that are litigation targets. In San Jose, a gas station has been indefinitely prevented from adding another pump because of a lawsuit filed by the owner of a competing gas station across the street.
North Holland Bans Wind Turbines | The Global Warming Policy Foundation
The province of North Holland has decided to stop building new wind turbines. There will be a total ban on new wind turbines by the end of the year, according to deputy Mr Bond. He says that large wind turbines do not fit into the province’s landscape. The decision is a setback for about twenty planned wind projects in North Holland which will not be approved.

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