GOP should seek fraud charges against Al Gore

GOP should seek fraud charges against Al Gore

http://www.cfact.org/2016/07/12/gop-should-seek-fraud-charges-against-al-gore/

This is the same very wealthy former Senator and Vice President Al Gore who has lobbied Congress for carbon cap-and-trade legislation which would have provided huge windfall benefits to his London-based hedge fund called Generation Investment Management (GIM) that he co-founded with former chief of Goldman Sachs Asset Management David Blood.

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Folly: All Of Europe’s Wind Power Capacity Only Could Steadily Provide Enough Electricity For Tiny Belgium!

Folly: All Of Europe’s Wind Power Capacity Only Could Steadily Provide Enough Electricity For Tiny Belgium!

http://notrickszone.com/2016/07/12/folly-all-of-europes-wind-power-capacity-only-could-steadily-provide-enough-electricity-for-tiny-belgium/

Swedish site klimatsans.com posted a chart presented by Rolf Schuster showing Germany’s and much of Europe’s total wind power generation over the first 6 months of this year: Wind power production Germany and Europe. Chart by Rolf Schuster, from klimatsans.com. The first thing one notices is wind power’s extreme supply volatility. In February wind production peaked at 75 gigawatts – enough to power all of Germany (for a few hours). Relying only on wind power, most of Germany would have been completely dark since late March. Every month wind power fell multiple times close to zero, meaning that it would not even be possible to even power little Luxembourg. And even if the technology existed to store the energy for a couple of days, the best all the installed wind power capacity in Europe could hope to consistently provide is some 15 gigawatts – which would be enough to power something on the order of Belgium only. If power could be stored for an entire week, it would only be possible to supply only about half of Germany – the rest of the continent, France, Spain, Portugal, Benelux, United Kingdom, Ireland, Scandinavia, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, all of eastern Europe and the Balkan countries would have to go without. This gives us an idea of how ridiculous the pursuit of 100% renewable energy supply really is.  

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US Funded World Bank “Climate Program” – Helping China put American Farmers Out of Work

US Funded World Bank “Climate Program” – Helping China put American Farmers Out of Work

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/07/14/us-funded-climate-program-helping-china-put-american-farmers-out-of-work

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The World Bank, to which the USA is by far the largest contributor, has launched a climate program in rural China, to help Chinese farmers improve infrastructure and productivity. This will in turn help the Chinese drive down the profits and job opportunities in rural America. Project Helps Farmers Adapt […]

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Europeans Stunned As Winter Strikes In Mid July! Snow Down To Only 1500 Meters …”Extremely Rare”

Europeans Stunned As Winter Strikes In Mid July! Snow Down To Only 1500 Meters …”Extremely Rare”

http://notrickszone.com/2016/07/14/europeans-stunned-as-winter-strikes-in-mid-july-snow-down-to-only-1500-meters-extremely-rare/

Here in the north German flatlands, my wife this morning commented that it felt like fall this morning. Indeed it was a bit nippy outside. As already forecast here, snow hit the German higher elevations, but with snow falling to as low as 1500 early this morning, so reports meteorologist Dominik Jung in a press release at wetter.net here. Here’s an excerpt: ======================================= Camping in the snow? What a summer! Snow fell this morning down to elevations of only 1500 meters. Photo: wetter.net. Wiesbaden (wetter.net) 14 July 2016 – have you ever thought of camping in the snow and in the middle of July? As warned already on Monday by wetter.net, this forecast came true in the Alp countries of Switzerland and Austria! The snowfall elevation really dropped over night. In some places early this morning snowflakes were falling at 1500 meters. For mid July such a low elevation snowfall is extremely rare. Clearly snow is not real unusual in June or late August at these elevations, but in July it is truly an unusual event to witness. This summer is not only behaving like fall, but even like winter. Not only did snow fall in Switzerland, but also in Austria. The popular Großglockner high Alps pass was in parts covered by snow this morning. And it is still snowing. Most people were certainly expecting something totally different this summer vacation. Summer 2016 is doing whatever it wants. Just days earlier in Austria the mercury were at levels between 30 and 35°C, but now it is snowing down to elevations of 1500 meters in mid July.” ============================ Jung writes that the cool weather has also gripped parts of Germany and is accompanied by heavy rains in the regions near Poland. The cause of the cold spell is a low situated over Poland. Not only Switzerland and Austria were surprised by winter, but so were parts of northern Italy. Severe Weather at Facebook here also posted a photo of snow blanketing the Alps in Northern Italy yesterday, well below the tree line. Incredible!  

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Union of Concerned Scientists makes shameless ploy for $2 million to protect #RICO 20

Union of Concerned Scientists makes shameless ploy for $2 million to protect #RICO 20

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/07/13/union-of-concerned-scientists-makes-shameless-ploy-for-2-million-to-protect-rico-20

From the “Kenji is not pleased” department. Can you imagine the wailing and caterwauling if say, Heartland or The Competitive Enterprise Institute tried something like this? In my opinion, the only thing related to “science” at UCS is their name, but clearly by their actions they are a political organization, and nothing else. After all, […]

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85% clinical medical research is false, not useful, not worth the money – government funded waste

85% clinical medical research is false, not useful, not worth the money – government funded waste

http://joannenova.com.au/2016/07/85-clinical-medical-research-is-false-not-useful-not-worth-the-money-government-funded-waste/

John Ioannidis paints a picture of a vast hive of researchers all pushed to publish short papers that are mostly a waste of time. The design is bad, the results useless (even when meta-collated with other badly designed studies). Basically, humankind is pouring blood, sweat and tears into spinning wheels in medicine — just paper churn. Most papers will never help a patient. Ioannidis wants rigor – full registration before the study, full transparency afterwards, fewer studies over all, but with better design. Astonishingly, fully 85% of what is spent on clinical trials is wasted. And this is clinical medical research, where standards are higher than in many other scientific areas and where there are easily defined terms of success unlike “blue sky” studies. Ioannidis doesn’t say it directly, but his description of the effect current funding has (which is almost all government based) almost guarantees that researchers will be wasting time in the paper churn — fast, short papers of little importance, that may even be false, but even if true are useless, insignificant. This is what happens when science is controlled by a government monopsony. The aim is the press release, not the patient. Science can’t be done […]Rating: 7.8/10 (4 votes cast)

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Could more fuel-efficient engines lead to more global warming?

Could more fuel-efficient engines lead to more global warming?

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/07/13/could-more-fuel-efficient-engines-lead-to-more-global-warming

From the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Auto industry experts predict that more than 50 percent of cars on the road by 2020 will use a relatively new type of fuel-efficient engine. This transition, however, has raised questions about its ultimate effect on the climate. A study published in ACS’ journal Environmental Science & Technology has found that […]

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