Friday Funny – why wouldn’t he dress up as Yamal YAD06? | Watts Up With That?

SuperMandia dressed up as YAD06 would even beat Peter Gleick’s 1978 self parody of a human windmill and balloon animal.

Why We Should Allow the Wind Production Tax Credit to Blow Away

It’s time that the Congress accepts fiscal responsibility and pursues a common-sense policy free from crony capitalism. The wind PTC should expire and wind farms should learn to turn off their turbines when no one wants their electricity. In other words, wind producers need to learn what the rest of us learned when we were in elementary school: we should stop making goods and providing services when there’s not a market for them.

Alaska argues polar bear not threatened | The Courier-Mail

Murray Feldman, a lawyer from Boise, Idaho, who is representing Alaska and the other appellants, argued on Friday that polar bears are doing fine and don't need the protection of the threatened status.

"Polar bears occupy the entirety of their historic range, with population at an all-time high," Feldman argued in front of the US Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia.

Gibraltar Chronicle - Gore seminar visit: no financial information available yet, says Cortes

Financial information regarding the overall costs of the forthcoming ‘Thinking Green’ seminar including the fee payable to the main speaker, former US Vice President and presidential candidate Al Gore, “is not yet available as the event has not taken place,” Minister for the Environment John Cortes said in Parliament yesterday.

Gibraltar Chronicle - Monckton throws gauntlet at Gore, ‘debate or get out of Gib’ says environmental sceptic

During a press conference at the Eliott Hotel where he spoke for over an hour without a single note, he reiterated his scathing criticisms of Al Gore and repeated his challenge first delivered in 2007, for a public debate in any format of his choosing, on live international television with the controversial environmental guru.

In his first ever visit to the Rock, Lord Monckton who has travelled the world probing, inquiring and asking uncomfortable, if not inconvenient questions regarding the claims by the world environmental lobby, declared that he would be closely following every word that Mr Gore utters in his seminar and that if there was any claim that could be interpreted as being fraudulent, he would be compiling a report for the relevant prosecuting authorities to consider.