Thursday, January 20, 2011

Early snow boosts resort skier visits - The Denver Post
Thanks to a strong showing of snow in the early season, Colorado's resorts posted a 10 percent increase in visitation through Dec. 31 over the same period in 2009.
Cooling it
Dr. Singer contends the fanatical drive to subsidize so-called renewable energy sources will only drive up conventional energy prices, while some people will purchase faddish alternative energy devices that will be less reliable and still more expensive, even after their subsidies. Atmospheric temperatures will be unaffected, but special interests' pockets will be lined. All things considered, it's prudent to cool it on the global warming front.
The Hidden Agenda Behind Global Warming Deception | Opinion | Epoch Times

Global warming policies will inevitably reduce our standard of living while creating massive new regulatory powers over our private lives and business.

Will the UN IPCC’s proposed solution to decrease CO2 significantly reduce the global temperature by 2100? The answer is no.

Scientists who support the Kyoto climate policies admit the proposed reduction of CO2 over 90 years will reduce expected temperatures by only one-third of 1 degree of Fahrenheit by 2100 after a century of massive economic deprivation and the lowering of American’s standards of living.
Bermuda is well-placed to ride out the ‘make or break' century | Bermuda NEWS
Nor do rising sea levels stand to affect the Island as drastically as some suggest, he said.

“Sea level change has been grossly exaggerated, particularly by people like Al Gore. Computer models say that it might go up two or three feet in fifty years. Some places will be hurt Bangladesh certainly will be. I look around this island and ask myself what it will do, and the answer I think is not much.”

Nevertheless, Dr Martin calls global warming, driven by the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the main force behind dangerous climate change.

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