Thursday, August 29, 2013

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Climate change obsessors make light of hurricane victims | Trending Central
350.org, which is closely aligned to anti-free market and anti-growth groups such as Oxfam and Greenpeace, make light of the plight of hurricane victims by mocking up natural disaster scenes, and attempting to blame Republican politicians for recent hurricanes in the United States.
Davis Strait Polar Bears: Too Many Bears or Not Enough Sea Ice?
Who would have thought? Polar bear biologists apparently cannot tell the difference between the negative effects of too many bears and reduced amounts of summer ice.
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: The Bet: Paul Ehrlich vs. Julian Simon
Looking back at the bet and its consequences it seems clear that Simon’s optimism resoundingly defeated Ehrlich’s pessimism in terms of public opinion and political commitments. No one seriously questions economic growth and over-population concerns have all but disappeared from public debate. Yet, it would be a mistake to declare the end of Malthusian thinking. As Herman Daly once quipped, “Malthus has been buried many times … anyone who has been buried so often cannot be entirely dead.”
Let’s copy Germany: 23,000 wind towers make 7% of its electricity to stop 0 degrees of warming « JoNova

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