Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Recalling the Salad Days of Greenpeace - Green Blog - NYTimes.com
“I only wonder why so few people listen to Greenpeace today,” he said. “We talk about the dying planet, about the greenhouse effect, the ozone hole – and nobody really listens. Only when it’s too late do they say that we were right.”
Monitor Urges Utilities to Go Slow on Smart Grid Renovations - NYTimes.com
A task force on climate change formed by North American Electric Reliability Corp. urges that policymakers not count on large amounts of renewable energy, demand reduction from smart grid systems or new storage technologies before they prove they can be worked onto the grid without endangering the system's reliability.
EU Referendum: Climategate, Amazongate, Bob Ward and the Murdoch empire
The Murdoch newspapers may of course be perfectly entitled to champion a cause in which their proprietors so fervently believe. But when it comes to comparing the piddling sums in funding received by a handful of sceptical think-tanks to the oceans of cash poured into the other side of the climate debate, there is no contest.
The American Spectator : Charging the Castle
That raises the stakes in O'Donnell's challenge to Castle, who has already voted for the Democrats' energy tax bill -- one of the notorious "Waxman-Markey 8" House Republicans to cross the aisle last June -- and could be expected to do so again in the lame-duck session. O'Donnell is hammering hard on that issue, warning that Castle's second vote for the cap-and-trade measure "would kill jobs and drive up prices on everything from peanuts to gasoline."
Flashback: Compelling video: Angry voters confront Congressman who voted for cap and trade swindle
At the 4:12 mark, a speaker says that he hopes Castle loses his Congressional seat over his support of cap and trade, and the crowd cheers. Castle smiles briefly, then his face grows grim.

Around the 7:12 mark, Castle is booed after he says he believes in AGW.

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