Another DOE Funded Car Company Goes Bust | National Review Online

Add VPG to the list of government-funded failures:
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Bonus: It’s also a failure of the Pickens Plan to change the nation’s automobile fleet to compressed natural gas
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And can we go for the hat-trick? Ties to an Obama fundraiser

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds prior claims about effects of ocean "acidification" may be overblown

A paper published today in Global Change Biology finds that prior papers about the alleged effect of ocean "acidification" on marine organisms are overblown because prior research has failed to consider that organisms can adapt over time to pH changes. According to the authors, "nearly all of this work [on the alleged effects of "acidification"] has focused on the effects of future conditions on modern populations, neglecting the role of adaptation."

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds upper limit of sea level rise from Antarctic ice sheet is about 70% less than IPCC upper limit

A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth finds "The new upper bound [upper limit] to sea-level rise from the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) averaged over the time span 2003 - 2012 is about 0.16 ± 0.09 mm/yr." At this rate, this is equivalent to an upper limit of about one-half inch sea level contribution by the year 2100, and is about 70% less than the IPCC AR4 upper limit estimate of sea level contribution from the Antarctic ice sheet of 0.21 ± 0.35 mm/yr [upper limit 0.56 mm/yr] from 1993-2003.

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