Flashback 1974: CIA Blamed Polar Vortex Dips On Arctic Cooling
…USA saw fewest lightning deaths on record in 2013: ’23 Americans died from lightning in 2013, the fewest since records began in 1940′
According to data from the National Weather Service. The previous record low was in 2011, which had 26 deaths. Accurate lightning death records go back 73 years to 1940.…
Study: ‘Traveling by car uses most energy’ – ‘Fuel economy must improve 57% in order for light-duty vehicles to match the current energy efficiency of commercial airline flights’
…Obama’s Dept. Of Energy Plugs Energy Rating for Homes, Similar to MPG Rating for Cars
DOE says more than 8,500 homes have been scored by the Energy Department’s growing network of more than 25 partners and 175 qualified assessors. – See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/doe-plugs-energy-rating-homes-similar-mpg-rating-cars#sthash.cwqZowUG.dpuf…
Baby Birds Doomed By Lightbulb Ban?! – Wild Bird Care Center puts our call out for banned incandescent light bulbs, which it uses to provide warmth for injured and recovering birds
…‘Freezing Is the New Warming’: 2014 ‘is looking like another bad year for global warming’
…GREEN FURY AS EU CONSIDERS SCRAPPING BINDING RENEWABLES TARGETS
European commissioners are considering scrapping a binding target for renewable energy for 2030, a move that would please big utility companies but infuriate environmentalists.…
Flashback 1972: CRU Chief Hubert Lamb of U. of East Anglia Said in an Associated Press article That Earth Would Definitely Cool Over The Next Two Centuries
…Flashback 1975 New York Times: Climate Experts Said That Jumbo Jets Would Cool The Planet And Produce Global Famine
…Sydney Morning Herald Promotes Skeptics: ‘Game Finally Up For Carboncrats’ – ‘The climate-change Cassandras are increasingly marginalized here and abroad’
The Kyoto treaty effectively expired a year ago. Prospects for a replacement are virtually zero. Rich nations are rejecting climate compensation for the developing world. Europe is in a coal frenzy. Germany, a former green trend-setter, is slashing unaffordable subsidies to the renewables industry. The European Parliament is losing confidence in the EU emissions trading scheme. No Asian nation has an emission trading scheme in operation. China’s and India’s net emissions are growing dramatically and governments, most recently Japan’s, are abandoning earlier pledges to reduce their nations’ carbon footprints. Even US Democrats, notwithstanding President Obama’s direct action-style energy plan, won’t pass modest carbon-pricing bills in the Congress. Add to this those debunked predictions (remember the vanishing Himalayan glaciers, disappearing North Polar ice cap?), and it is clear that Tim Flannery’s moment has come and gone.
Meanwhile, 2013 marked the 15th year of flat-lined global surface temperatures, despite record levels of carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere since 1998. And as the US shale “fracking” revolution shows, the most efficient way to cut emissions is not via command-and-control regulation but by allowing private drillers to expand natural gas production.
Of course, the environmental doomsayers remain apocalyptic.
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When they abuse, intimidate and victimise anyone with the temerity to criticise the fanaticism of their movement, the inclination of ordinary Australians is either to shrug their shoulders with a profound lack of interest or to grimace at this moral grandstanding.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/game-finally-up-for-carboncrats-20140113-30qqo.html#ixzz2qI73y2NT
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