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Posted in Global Warming on Sep 23rd, 2009
U.S. Temperature Highlights – Summer
High resolution (Credit: NOAA)
For the 2009 summer, the average temperature of 71.7 degrees F was 0.4 degree F below the 20th Century average. The 2008 average summer temperature was 72.7 degrees F.
A recurring upper level trough held the June-August temperatures down in the central states, where Michigan experienced its fifth, Wisconsin, [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Hybrid Cars on Sep 16th, 2009
The Prius hybrid automobile is popular for its fuel efficiency, but its electric motor and battery guzzle rare earth metals, a little-known class of elements found in a wide range of gadgets and consumer goods.
That makes Toyota’s market-leading gasoline-electric hybrid car and other similar vehicles vulnerable to a supply crunch predicted by experts as China, [...]
Posted in Global Warming on Aug 28th, 2009
At the turn of the 20th century, a period famous for its Robber Barons, John D. Rockefeller was making his fortune in oil, Andrew Carnegie in steel, Cornelius Vanderbilt in railroads and J.P Morgan in finance. Many predict that the history books of the future, when listing the legendary fortunes made at the turn of [...]
Posted in Global Warming on Aug 8th, 2009
Remember Enron, the corrupt firm whose failure should have disproved the myth “too big to fail”, but didn’t? At the time it was the seventh largest corporation. It’s bankruptcy was the largest in history until Lehman Brothers failed. Incidentally, Lehman Brothers was also involved in carbon trading.
Enron owed part of its early success to emissions [...]
Posted in Global Warming on Jun 27th, 2009
Penn and Teller - Bullshit! - Environmental Hysteria
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Posted in Global Warming on Jun 6th, 2009
SUPPOSE the climate landscape in recent weeks looked something like this:
Half the country was experiencing its mildest winter in years, with no sign of snow in many Northern states. Most of the Great Lakes were ice-free. Not a single Canadian province had had a white Christmas. There was a new study discussing a mysterious surge [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Hybrid Cars, Politics on May 19th, 2009
The Obama administration says it is time to increase mileage requirements for cars and trucks. The auto industry is apparently on board:
In secret conversations, the Obama administration has lined up support from many state governments and a huge array of domestic and foreign automakers, including GM, Ford, Chrysler, BMW and many more.
Auto executives are flying into [...]
Posted in Global Warming on May 15th, 2009
Barack Obama promised that he wouldn’t raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. He neglected to mention that this tax exemption would go only to those who don’t use electricity, gasoline, heating oil or natural gas.
The truth of the matter is that Obama will raise taxes on practically all middle-class Americans. But [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Politics on May 6th, 2009
The founder of the Weather Channel, John Coleman, wants to sue Al Gore for fraud, along with companies that sell carbon credits. Coleman, who feels the network he created in 1982 is now losing sight of its initial focus, has been a long-time skeptic about global warming.
Now, he’s hoping that a lawsuit — with its [...]
Posted in Global Warming on Apr 29th, 2009
Earlier this month, while in Houston, TX I almost spilled my latte in my lap when I read this on the front page of the Chronicle: ” Mayor Proposes Fines for Unsorted Trash.”
The story began: “Garbage collectors would inspect Houston, TX, residents’ trash to make sure pizza crusts aren’t mixed in with chip bags or [...]
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