Archive for the ‘science’ Category
U.S. Manipulated Climate Accord in Copenhagen From the Guardian by Damian Carrington December 3, 2010 Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage. The U.S. diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt [...]
Cancun Talks Start With a Call to the Gods Washington Post By Juliet Eilperin With United Nations climate negotiators facing an uphill battle to advance their goal of reducing emissions linked to global warming, it’s no surprise that the woman steering the talks appealed to a Mayan goddess Monday. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the [...]
From today’s Telegraph: Get Ready for Climate Justice The climate change summit is being held at the Cancun Palace Resort this week and if the attendees have their way, your lifestyle is about to change – big time. The international group of “experts” is deciding how much food, energy and clothing you will be [...]
Although the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) collapsed and shut down this week, Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management LLP pocketed approximately $17.8 million on it’s 2.98% share of the exchange when it was sold to the publicly traded Intercontinental Exchange a mere 6 months ago. According to news reports, the brainchild of the exchange, academic Richard [...]
The UN Wants to Control the Universe Last July, the National Geographic News had an article APOLLO 11 AT 40: Who Owns the Moon? Now, forty-one years after Apollo 11, Dennis Hope, an entrepreneur from Nevada says he owns the moon. As the self-appointed head of the Lunar Embassy Corporation, he has sold real estate [...]
Climate Change Data Dumped Jonathan Leake – Sunday Times Environment Editor November 29, 2009 SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to [...]
The Next Big Thing For those who weren’t paying attention back in 8th grade science class, we all learned that the earth’s climate constantly changes, albeit very slowly. There is no fully-accepted view of what causes the climate change. Some scientists believe that the Earth’s orbit around the Sun undergoes periodic minor fluctuations due to [...]
Learn from Spain By Doris De Guzman The group Western Business Roundtable sent an email yesterday about a Spanish study concluding that for every green job created in Spain resulted in the loss of 2.2 other jobs. The study finds that only one in 10 renewable energy jobs created in Spain were of a permanent [...]
California’s Man-Made Drought The green war against San Joaquin Valley farmers California has a new endangered species on its hands in the San Joaquin Valley—farmers. Thanks to environmental regulations designed to protect the likes of the three-inch long delta smelt, one of America’s premier agricultural regions is suffering in a drought made worse by federal [...]
The Failures Of Alternative Energy It was a bad sign when T Boone Pickens gave up, at least partially, on building a mammoth wind farm in Texas. The process was not only going to be expensive; the ability to get the energy from the windmills to large population centers would be complicated by flaws in [...]
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