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  • The Tide is Turning: Truth About Climate on TV in San Diego

    10/20/2013 1:18:17 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 8 replies
    Ricochet ^ | October 19, 2013 | Jim Lakey
    Thanks to the wonder that is the Internet, you don’t have to actually live in San Diego to watch a 30-minute special that aired in that city last Sunday that gives a thorough debunking of the climate scare. At this link you will see what the lucky residents of San Diego enjoyed via the great KUSI-TV and the Founding Father of The Weather Channel, John Coleman … without the other benefits of living in one of the most pleasant cities on the planet. You’ll just have to count all your other blessings. Coleman interviewed two of the lead authors of...
  • Poll finds new popularity among third parties

    10/19/2013 9:24:09 AM PDT · by sdnet · 53 replies
    Small Government Times ^ | 2013-10-19 | Steve Adcock2
    A new Gallup poll indicates that more Americans than ever recognize the need for a third party to threaten the political monopoly that Democrats and Republicans clearly represent in our country. According to Gallup, 60% of those polled believe that the United States needs a third party – that is the highest percentage of Americans answering in the affirmative since the polling organization began asking the question 10-years ago. The poll also found only a quarter of those surveyed believe the Democrats and Republicans are doing an adequate job at representing them in government.
  • Xcel wins approval for 4 wind farms

    10/18/2013 11:44:17 AM PDT · by TurboZamboni · 26 replies
    MPLS Star & SIckle ^ | 10-18-13 | DAVID SHAFFER
    Minnesota utility regulators on Thursday approved Xcel Energy’s plan to add four Upper Midwest wind farms that will boost its wind power capacity in the region by 42 percent. The decision by the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) clears the way for Minneapolis-based Xcel and two energy development companies, including Geronimo Energy of Edina, to push ahead with the goal of meeting deadlines to secure lucrative federal tax credits. Regulators rejected a request by other wind energy interests to extend the review process on the four projects in Minnesota and North Dakota. Xcel didn’t disclose the cost of the projects,...
  • California's struggling 'hydrogen highway' plan gets new life -- and drivers will pay

    10/12/2013 5:29:56 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 38 replies
    San Jose Mercury News ^ | October 12, 2013 | By Paul Rogers
    In what may be California's last chance to build a "hydrogen highway," lined with thousands of high-tech vehicles emitting nothing but water vapor from their tailpipes, Gov. Jerry Brown has approved a plan to construct 100 hydrogen fueling stations across the state by 2024. Only a year ago, the California Air Resources Board required Big Oil to pay for the new stations. But after oil companies threatened to sue, Brown agreed to a compromise in which the costs of building hydrogen stations will be shifted to car owners through existing vehicle registration fees.
  • On Letters From Climate Change Deniers

    10/10/2013 6:12:01 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 29 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | October 8, 2013 | Paul Thornton
    [snip] .........As for letters on climate change, we do get plenty from those who deny global warming. And to say they "deny" it might be an understatement: Many say climate change is a hoax, a scheme by liberals to curtail personal freedom. Before going into some detail about why these letters don't make it into our pages, I'll concede that, aside from my easily passing the Advanced Placement biology exam in high school, my science credentials are lacking. I'm no expert when it comes to our planet's complex climate processes or any scientific field. Consequently, when deciding which letters should...
  • Science in favour of climate change 'akin to evidence linking smoking to cancer'

    10/09/2013 10:58:22 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 22 replies
    Daily Telegraph ^ | October 9, 2013 | Alice Philipson
    Lord Deben, chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, condemned the media for seeking to balance climate change proponents with sceptics. He warned that a number of climate sceptics were given too much coverage, and said the media should recognise that a balanced report should have "some rationality" within it. Evidence in favour of climate change is so strong, he said, that it could be compared to evidence linking smoking to cancer or evidence that the Moon Landing was not staged. He said: “When you’re discussing the science of climate change, you really shouldn’t go off to Australia because you...
  • Top Obama climate aide stepping down

    10/07/2013 1:26:09 PM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 21 replies
    The Hill ^ | October 7, 2013 | Ben Geman
    Heather Zichal, President Obama’s top energy and climate change adviser, is leaving the White House. Zichal has worked behind the scenes and been a public face for President Obama’s climate and energy platform, including controversial second-term plans to limit carbon emissions from power plants. [snip] Prior to coming to the White House, Zichal was a policy director on President Obama’s 2008 campaign. Before that, she was legislative director for ex-Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who is now secretary of State. Her departure in the next few weeks will mark what has been an almost complete turnover of Obama’s energy and environment...
  • It's Excellent That Renewable Energy Doesn't Create Many Green Jobs For Jobs Are A Cost

    10/01/2013 7:10:59 AM PDT · by Nachum · 2 replies
    Forbes ^ | 9/30/13 | Tim Worstall, Contributor
    The Wall Street Journal has an interesting walk through some of the myths about renewable energy. It’s not quite (quite!) as expensive as many think, variability isn’t entirely a killer and so on. But the one that interests me most is the assertion that renewables just don’t seem to be creating that many green jobs: During the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama touted the prospect that investing in clean energy could produce five million “green jobs.” The idea of creating jobs helped underpin the $90 billion clean-energy stimulus in 2009 and later efforts, and remains a staple of administration rhetoric. But...
  • U.N. climate change report points blame at humans

    09/27/2013 6:52:19 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 24 replies
    CNN News ^ | September 27, 2013 | By Dave Hennen, Brandon Miller and Eliott C. McLaughlin
    The world's getting hotter, the sea's rising and there's increasing evidence neither are naturally occurring phenomena. So says a report from the U.N. International Panel on Climate Change, a document released every six years that is considered the benchmark on the topic. More than 800 authors and 50 editors from dozens of countries took part in its creation.
  • Jim Messina Joins Board of Firm That Received Millions in Federal Money: OFA head, Obama campaign

    09/25/2013 11:13:59 AM PDT · by Nachum · 9 replies
    Free Beacon ^ | 9/25/13 | Lachlan Markay
    A former top White House official and the head of President Barack Obama’s personal advocacy group is joining the board of a green energy company backed by a major Democratic donor that recently received millions in federal contracts. LanzaTech announced Wednesday that Jim Messina, Obama’s former deputy chief of staff, reelection campaign manager, and the head of his retooled campaign apparatus Organizing for Action was appointed to the company’s board of directors. “Jim’s proven ability to merge technology, messaging, and communications in support of ideas that transcend ‘business as usual’ will help us continue our mission of reshaping how our...
  • Cruz Reads 'Green Eggs and Ham' During ObamaCare Speech

    09/24/2013 6:09:54 PM PDT · by Nachum · 28 replies
    fox ^ | 9/24/13 | fox
    During Senator Ted Cruz's marathon speech in support of defunding ObamaCare, he took a break around 8:00 p.m. ET to read Dr. Seuss’ “Green Eggs and Ham.” When he finished reading the children’s book on the Senate floor, he told his daughters it was bedtime and that he'd be home soon to read to them in person. Then, he proceeded to tell members of Congress how the book relates to the president’s health care law. For three and a half years, Cruz said, President Obama and the Democrats told the American people to just try ObamaCare.
  • Cruz Reads Green Eggs & Ham on Senate Floor

    09/24/2013 5:17:10 PM PDT · by servo1969 · 26 replies
    Breitbart.com ^ | 9-24-2013 | Kerry Picket
    Breitbart News spotted a Cruz staffer going towards the Senate Cloak Room with Dr. Seuss's book Green Eggs and Ham in his hand. The staffer told Breitbart News he was giving it to his boss. Senator Ted Cruz (R - TX) began reading Green Eggs and Ham on the floor of the Senate Tuesday night for his children. He did so after he read Bible verses. He compared the the main character's refusal to eat green eggs and ham to the American public's refusal of Obamacare.
  • Green groups to Obama: “Let’s make a deal” on Keystone? Don’t even think about it.

    09/24/2013 11:00:04 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 6 replies
    Hotair ^ | 09/24/2013 | Erika Johnsen
    It’s now been just over five years since TransCanada first filed an application for a presidential permit to build a cross-border pipeline, but that hasn’t done anything to temper the radical eco-lobbies’ relentlessly combative campaign based on nothing more than untenable arguments and outrageous outrage. Points for their steadfast commitment, I suppose, but those points are completely negated by these out-of-touch green groups’ and millionaire donors‘ refusal to contend with the facts that the southern portions of the Keystone pipeline are already in operation or nearly complete, that the pipeline will be used to ship domestic oil too, and that...
  • Russia to charge Greenpeace activists with piracy (5 to 15 years in penal colony)

    09/24/2013 2:21:29 AM PDT · by cunning_fish · 19 replies
    TVNZ ^ | September 24, 2013
    Greenpeace activists arrested after trying to board a Russian oil rig are likely to face piracy charges, local media reports. Two New Zealanders are among the crew of the protest vessel Arctic Sunrise who were confronted and detained by armed members of the Russian coastguard on Thursday. Authorities said the rig was in an exclusion zone, but Greenpeace argues its boat was in international waters. All the activists will be prosecuted for the "attack" on the oil rig, an investigative committee told Russian media. In a statement the committee said it had opened a criminal case on suspicion of piracy....
  • Study Gives Fracking Green Bill of Health

    09/18/2013 6:02:19 PM PDT · by neverdem · 4 replies
    The American Interest ^ | September 17, 2013 | Walter Russell Mead
    We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: shale gas is fracking green. A new study confirms that natural gas helps decrease greenhouse gas emissions by displacing the much dirtier and more carbon intensive coal. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, and it pokes a hole in one of the last gripes greens have about the American shale boom. Prominent greens like Bill McKibben and the misleading documentary filmmaker Josh Fox have criticized fracking for leaking the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, nullifying the fact that burning natural gas emits...
  • More bad news for the green lobby: No, fracking does not release outrageous amounts of methane

    09/17/2013 8:51:46 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 11 replies
    Hotair ^ | 09/17/2013 | Erika Johnsen
    One of the many arguments that the rabidly anti-fracking, eco-radical crowd have been using to try and discredit hydraulic fracturing as a welcome boon to both our environment and our economy is the claim that the process itself leaks an unacceptable amount of methane into the atmosphere. Methane, they insist, is an especially potent greenhouse gas, so that on net start-to-finish evaluation, natural gas really isn’t any cleaner than coal and those studies about natural gas contributing so hugely to the United States’ recently decreased carbon emissions can’t really be that accurate.Unfortunately for them, a brand new study concludes that...
  • Germany's Aleo Solar is closing its Denver office

    09/13/2013 8:13:21 AM PDT · by george76 · 12 replies
    Denver Business Journal ^ | Sep 13, 2013 | L. Wayne Hicks
    Aleo Solar AG, a German solar-module manufacturer that has its U.S. headquarters in Denver, said it will withdraw from the United States immediately. ... the US operation had failed to meet recent sales targets and was not operating profitably
  • 'Eco-school' opened just 3 years ago already leaking so badly pupils have to go into temp classrooms

    09/12/2013 1:23:47 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 21 replies
    The London Daily Mail ^ | September 11, 2013 | Paul Bentley
    When it opened its timber doors three years ago, this £7million ‘eco primary school’ was applauded for its environmentally friendly credentials. It was heated by solar power and its plumbing system relied on rain collected from the roof, which was made of locally grown sweet chestnut. Sadly, the zero-carbon building is not quite as sustainable as the designers had hoped. In fact, thanks to a series of water leaks and mouldy walls, pupils are now being taught in tents erected in the school grounds. The local authority in Devon has already spent £250,000 to investigate the problem, and plans to...
  • Pacific climate change pact wins US support

    09/08/2013 3:01:56 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 18 replies
    AFP News ^ | September 8, 2013
    A new Pacific regional pact calling for aggressive action to combat climate change has achieved a "major accomplishment" by gaining US support, officials said Sunday. US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced during the session a new climate change fund for Pacific islands vulnerable to rising sea levels. "Climate change is the defining challenge of our time," she said in launching the Pacific-American fund. Separately, the US was offering $24 million over five years for projects in "vulnerable coastal communities" in the Pacific, she said.
  • Australia liberated from their long national green nightmare

    09/08/2013 12:04:21 AM PDT · by Impala64ssa · 9 replies
    Watts Going On ^ | 9/8/13 | Anthony Watts
    Today is a great day not only in Australian history, but also in world history. It marks the day when people of character and sensibility pushed back against an overwrought and pointless green agenda, and pushed back in a big way. They’ve had enough, and they’ve scraped the Krudd off their shoes and are moving forward. Tony Abbot has won the Australian election in a landslide, and vows to abolish the carbon tax as a first order of business. Abbott has declared Australia is “once more open for business” in claiming victory in Saturday’s election. It is a huge blow...