Friday, November 13, 2009

Chusing the Facts to Fit His Story - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Oops. Secretary Chu has been caught making stuff up on how he improved energy efficiency while head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Prof Ian Plimer: tenets of a climate change sceptic - Telegraph
He has described people's belief in anthropogenic climate change as "a fundamentalist religion adopted by urban atheists looking to fill a yawning spiritual gap plaguing the West".
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | UK climate targets 'unachievable'
The report calls for a warlike mentality to combat climate change, arguing that it needs much tougher tactics and a new enhanced government department to meet the challenge.

According to Dr Fox: "It's time to go to war on climate change. It is attacking us and we must fight back."

Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre on climate change, supports the Institution's approach.
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Professor Anderson also suggests that we may need to see some form of carbon rationing like food rationing in wartime.

"When you have something essential like energy that you can't ration just on price - you have to ration it in a more equitable way.
Scientific American’s “A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030:” the Cost « Climate Sanity
Wouldn’t prices fall as technology advances? Not necessarily. Look at the cost to install wind facilities – it has been increasing since the early 2000s.

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