Friday, April 30, 2010

Obamas Cap And Trade: An Energy License To Sell Your Home
What this says is that 1 year after the enactment a home cannot be sold unless it complies with the energy and water standards that are provided in the bill. Along with this there is a record breaking tax increase, to the tune of around $6,800 per year for a family of four. This isn’t all it does either.
Comment on article from S. Fred Singer: Oh, Mann: Cuccinelli targets UVA papers in Climategate salvo by Courteney Stuart | Climate Realists
"There is a good chance that Virginia’s Attorney-General Ken Cuccinelli will come up with the “smoking gun” -- where other so-called investigations have only produced one whitewash after another.
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There go all the windfarms, both onshore and offshore, the wasteful ethanol projects, and the hydrogen economy. Maybe Al Gore will cough up some of his ill-gotten $500 million, gained from scaring the public, from carbon trading, carbon footprints, and all the other scams.
C3: EU Research Finds No Increase In Severe Storms - Contradicts AGW Model Predictions
Global warming alarmists and the climate models have long predicted that the frequency of severe storms would increase. Data worldwide indicates otherwise and a new study by an EU researcher confirms this.
GREEN JOBS OR SHALE GAS? THE NUMBERS TALK, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY : Center for Global Food Issues
CHURCHVILLE, VA— The shale gas industry’s boom is creating 100,000 jobs in Pennsylvania during 2010, according to Penn State University. Only a few of these new jobs are on drill rigs; many of those jobs go to highly-skilled oil patch veterans from out of state. But the gas industry’s expansion has created jobs by the tens of thousands in steel production, construction, and services.
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Meanwhile, the giant state of California has created only 48,000 “green jobs” over the 13 years from 1995 to 2008. Green jobs still make up only 1 percent of California’s economy. Worse, says State Senator Bob Dutton, the high energy taxes needed to create those few green jobs are at the same time killing millions of jobs in all sorts of industries across the state.

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