Friday, May 04, 2012

Residents of Alaska's biggest city deal with aftermath of record seasonal snowfall | The Republic
That was around mid-March, when Anchorage was well on its way to surpassing the record of 132.6 inches set in the winter of 1954-55. Horn, 47, has lived in Alaska most of his life and in his current home for seven years, but he's never seen this monstrous a snow load...
Even by Alaska standards, Anchorage was pounded. City snow removal crews worked day and night to clear roadways and haul more than 2.5 million cubic yards of snow to the city's six snow disposal sites, which came close to capacity. One city official said that volume would almost fill the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.
Lawrence Solomon: The lost debate | FP Comment | Financial Post
The big picture: There is not a scrap of compelling evidence that points to man-made global warming representing a danger for society. The only scary “evidence” that exists, in fact, is based on computer models, none of which have been proven to work and all of which reflect the biases of the people loading in the data.
Twitter / @realDonaldTrump: In the 1920's people were ...
In the 1920's people were worried about global cooling--it never happened. Now it's global warming. Give me a break!
Green War Over Natural Gas About To Escalate
The rocky relationship between one of the world’s most influential environmental groups and the natural-gas industry is headed toward full-scale combat. The Sierra Club is intensifying its natural-gas reform campaign and renaming it “Beyond Gas,” a spin-off of its decade-old “Beyond Coal” campaign seeking the phaseout of coal-fired power plants.
Flashback: Fuel for Debate: Pelosi Suggests Natural Gas Isn’t a Fossil Fuel - Environmental Capital - WSJ
On NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the speaker twice seemed to suggest that natural gas – an energy source she favors – is not a fossil fuel.
“I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” she said at one point. Natural gas “is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels,” she said at another.

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