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Monbiot: “We Were Wrong On Peak Oil”

How did I miss this? The facts have changed, now we must change too. For the past 10 years an unlikely coalition of geologists, oil drillers, bankers, military strategists and environmentalists has been warning that peak oil – the decline … Continue reading

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Climate Alarmist Has Second Thoughts

Fritz Vahrenholt, one of Germany’s earliest green energy investors, has written an article for the Telegraph explaining why he is no longer convinced that the IPCC has made an adequate case for catastrophic global warming: For many years, I was … Continue reading

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Global Warming: Be Very Afraid

Or not. James Lovelock, the inventor of the Gaia Theory stating that the Earth is a self-regulating super-organism, has packed up and moved to beachfront property. It’s a shocking move given the impending ocean rise due to climate change. After … Continue reading

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Climate Models Fail

From the Financial Post: The two models being used for a government report again made diametrically opposite predictions. In region after region, if one model predicted a tendency toward more flooding, the other tended to predict drying. I think that’s … Continue reading

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Regulations for Thee, But Not for Me

Poor, boned California. It’s easy to pick on the Golden State. But it’s losing its entertainment value as it becomes more clear that their troubles are catching up to them. In the last decade more than 4 million residents have … Continue reading

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Atlantic Crossing to Raise Awareness of Melting Icecaps Cancelled Due to Excessive Ice

From the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” Department, CTV is reporting: Two British adventurers who were planning a record-setting row from St. John’s, N.L., to Bristol, England, have called off their expedition after warnings from Canadian ice experts. Experienced … Continue reading

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WWF: Only global poverty can save the planet

The Register is reporting on the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) biennial, “Living Planet Report.” With Climate Change finding itself out of the news and it’s adherents under increasing scrutiny for their alarmism and weak science, the true believers have recently … Continue reading

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Remember last year when American Progressives said the US should follow Europe’s enlightened lead? Good times, good times.

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From Instapundit: QUANTIFYING THE DEATH SPIRAL OF CLIMATE SCIENCE: “In 2008, James Hansen declared that we were at a tipping point due to ice loss at both poles which was going to decimate life on the planet…Since the same date … Continue reading

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German “Energy Poverty” and Green Orthodoxy

The EU is already under pretty intense economic pressure. Portugal, Greece and Spain are putting stress on the monetary union and it’s largely due to France and Germany’s anchor status that the construct continues. But green energy is expensive, and … Continue reading

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If I Wanted America To Fail

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The New Google Bike

When I think of Google, I think of search, information, data, algorithm and fat stock price. But I also think about innovation. Recently, Google ran a contest among employees to design the new bike for employee use around their campus. … Continue reading

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NASA Scientists: Enough Climate Models. More Evidence, Please.

Remember how the “Science is Settled” regarding Man’s role in Climate Change? Remember how skeptics should tone down because a consensus of scientists had agreed that AGW was real, and a problem, and had to be dealt with now? I … Continue reading

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Energy Prices Will Necessarily Skyrocket

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California: Terminally Boned

I try to feel sorry for Californians. But from all appearances, to be boned is their goal. I wrote a snarky piece a few days ago which included this bit: Al Gore lectures you on how you can live and … Continue reading

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Climate Change Insanity Revisited

This stuff is getting so dumb, so insulting that it’s difficult to understand how anyone could possibly be taking it seriously. It’s embarrassing. Delivered with a straight face over at The Guardian, James Hansen has stepped up very unscientific arguments … Continue reading

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Southern California Power Troubles

Having made risky, questionable and plain bad decisions for decades, Californians could see the poison fruits of their labor this summer as power generation will be exceeded by demand and power plants continue to go off-line. The latest hit is … Continue reading

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Global Warming Insanity

The Telegraph is reporting that in Great Britain, an 83 year old woman has been told to find a new doctor because she lives too far from the practice, causing excessive damage to the climate. In a letter, her doctors … Continue reading

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