Articles: Wind Power Fiasco: Call Your Congressman

Wind power is a joke. It makes no sense -- none, nada.

The wind power lobbyists say it creates jobs. Well I have a better way to make jobs based on the same principles: let's train dogs to walk on treadmills to generate electricity. Think of all the jobs for dog-trainers, dog food companies, and dog-walkers. Think of all the jobs at dog retirement homes for dogs too old to work. Think about all the do-gooders collecting a salary for looking out for the welfare of the dogs. Think about the attorneys employed in filing class action suits against dog-exploiters. Think about the jobs in organizations opposing the use of genetically modified dogs. Dogs on treadmills are much better than windmills for creating jobs.

- Bishop Hill blog - It's gas

The news this morning is that the government seem to have plunked once and for all for a gas dominated future. The Energy Secretary Ed Davey has said this morning that we are going to need a lot of unabated gas fired generation.

They're not saying that they're abandoning renewables of course, but it seems clear that the shale gas revolution is indeed going be central to the UK's energy future.

A wildly expensive policy of promoting windfarms is going to be increasingly hard to justify.

Australian Antarctic Icebreaker Stuck In Ice « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

News from down under that the Australian Antarctic Division’s icebreaker, the Aurora Australis has just returned safely to Hobart, having been stuck in pack ice for three weeks earlier this month.

The ship was stuck about 80 miles from the Antarctic coastline
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According to UAH figures, the Antarctic winter this year has been about two degree centigrade colder than last year, and 0.8C colder than the 1981-2010 average.