Emissions trading is a tax, no matter the name | The Australian

THE first and most important thing to note about Kevin Rudd's emissions trading scheme is that it is a tax.

It's not called a tax, but if it waddles like one, quacks like one, and most pointedly raises money like one, it's a tax. And not just any old tax -- it's a huge and continually growing tax.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Did EPA Stack its Ethanol Life-Cycle Analysis Peer Review?

So 4 of 5 peer reviewers are employed by advocacy groups with established positions on the topic under review, and these position support that of the Obama Administration's EPA. At a minimum this situation creates a whale of an appearance problem, regardless of the scientific qualifications of the peer reviewers (which I am not at all discussing in this post).

Deadly blades; death toll mounts as wind farms massacre birds of prey

“Eagles don’t avoid wind turbines : they are attracted to them. In California, Dr Smallwood has observed that golden eagles fly twice as often near wind turbines than they would by chance. This explains why so many collide with the blades, which travel at up to 300 km/h at the tip. Two thousand three hundred golden eagles have been killed that way in California, and you know that : an official report confirms it.”

All Seeing Eye: Global Warming Will Change Our Accents