The Electric Car: An Idea Whose Time May Never Come | Power Line

The vision of the future touted by many environmentalists includes electric automobiles. The dream of the electric car is an old one; for quite a few decades now, electric vehicles have supposedly represented the future. Thus, a friend sent me this photocopy of a newspaper article titled “Ford Chief Says Electric Car Now Is Under Development.” The article appeared in January 1971
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My favorite part is the conclusion:

The last successful American automobile powered by batteries was the old Baker Electric, which used a tiller arm instead of a steering wheel and was last made in the 1920s.

The car of the future!

Stopping the next great extinction could cost just $11.42 per person per year | Grist

It’s also about how much money it would cost (per person in the world, per year) to stop any species from ever going extinct ever again.

Fiona Rotherham: Was Al Gore Speech Worth $12,500?... | Stuff.co.nz

Tickets didn't come cheap with the least expensive costing around $800 and VIP tables went for around $12,500. Gore is said to have been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to speak.
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But mostly he talked about global warming. Like any good evangelist he labelled climate change naysayers as crackpots who weren't facing what he claimed to be the undeniable truth. He reiterated one of his favourite quotes - that 90 million tonnes per day of global warming pollution was going into the Earth's atmosphere as if it was "an open sewer".

‘The Local’: Munich RE “Profiteering From Climate Change Scare Stories Based On Quasi Scientific Reports”

The local writes:

Scientists decry insurer’s extreme weather claims

German insurance companies stand accused of putting the wind up American policy holders and profiteering from climate change scare stories based on their own quasi-scientific reports Der Spiegel reported on Thursday.

[...] scientists are furious, saying the insurance company has no proof to support the claim. “Most [of the study] doesn’t make sense, and it contradicts observations,” atmosphere researcher Clifford Mass from University of Washington in Seattle told the magazine.