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Why The Parrotfish Should Be The National Bird | Watts Up With That?

The environmental NGOs’ fight against affordable inexpensive energy is a modern tragedy. Inexpensive energy is the only hope for the poor of the planet, and the economic development of the poor is necessary BEFORE a country can start addressing environmental issues. As a result, the NGOs’ war on inexpensive energy is causing huge, long-term environmental damage.

Twitter / loubgray: "We've seen a 100x increase ...

"We've seen a 100x increase in extreme temperature events in last 30yrs" inc floods in Europe + US @algore #weather #globalwarming

Ecological Oil Drilling: Addressing Oil Seepage in California — MasterResource

“How much oil seeps out from the ocean floor — and into the environment — around the Santa Barbara area? SOS California identifies offshore Santa Barbara as having “the second largest marine oil seeps in the world.” Centered around an area referred to as Coal Oil Point, some 10,000 gallons of crude oil seep from approximately 1,200 fissures in the ocean floor in any given 24-hour period.”

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds the 'hot spot' predicted by climate models doesn't exist

A paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters finds, once again, that climate models get the core assumptions wrong and that the fabled 'hot spot' is still missing.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds another non-hockey-stick in the tropical Pacific

A paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters finds another non-hockey-stick from reconstructed sea surface temperatures [SSTs] in the tropical Pacific over the past 850 years. The data shows temperatures were as warm during portions of the Little Ice Age in the 1200's - 1400's as at the end of the record.