GOP elder statesman supports carbon tax: George Shultz: ‘I’ve listened to a lot of people…and it seems to me that we should recognise that this is a potential problem of great seriousness’
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NSIDC Ignored Antarctica in 2006 Too: ‘Antarctic Sea Ice Extent set an all time record in 2012. The previous record was set in 2006…So what did the NSIDC have to say about it in 2006? Nothing.’
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‘North American Shale Gas Resources Estimated at 3.3 Quadrillion Cubic Feet’: ‘Separate studies…have moved tally of N. American potential to a new plateau, beyond trillions to 3.3 quadrillion’
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Study finds little environmental impact from Canadian oil sands: The ‘toxins well downstream of the oil sands come from the environment, not big steel stacks…’
‘When scientists drilled into lake bottoms 200 kilometres from those oil-sands mines, they discovered something surprising: At that distance, levels of those pollutants were negligible. In fact, the lake sediments, whose layers opened a window onto hundreds of years of air and water quality, showed that in many ways those lakes are cleaner today than they were decades, and even centuries, ago.’
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‘Please Spare Us Any More Climate-Change Alarmism’: ‘Our weather has hardly become any ‘weirder’ than what Earth and humanity have faced countless times before’
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Temperature Target May Doom Climate Talks, Study Says — ‘By focusing on the 2°C goal, negotiators inadvertently guaranteed that their efforts would fail…’
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A Really Inconvenient Truth: Choosing Between Climate Change & Wildlife: ‘Conservation groups are filing lawsuits to halt the construction of solar plants and wind farms’
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