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The Left Coaster (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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Not that there's any urgency , but the United Nations Climate Change Conference , which will begin December 7, in Copenhagen, already is in deep trouble. Guess why... According to The Guardian : A global deal to fight climate change will take at least six months and possibly another year to finalise, according to negotiators at the heart of the UN talks. In a series of briefings, senior British and...
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Popular Science is reporting that a piece of bread, dropped by a passing bird, has managed to damage the Large Hadron Collider. The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes...
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Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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China Sets Its Sights on Green Cars The parent of SAIC Motor, the biggest automaker in China, plans to invest 6 billion yuan to develop and manufacture clean-energy vehicles over the next couple of years, Xinhua, the official news agency, has reported. Of the investment, which will be equivalent to about $880 million, one-third will go [...]
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
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Estelle Shirbon in Reuters: French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss, the founder of structural anthropology, has died at the age of 100, his publishing house Plon said on Tuesday. Levi-Strauss, who was known to a wider public thanks to his 1955 memoir...
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Gateway Pundit (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
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And on the eighth day God created carbon counting, and expensive solar panels and protected land for booming polar bear populations. (GM Roper Image) An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in [...]
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Hot Air (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
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In an otherwise unremarkable poll of adults, as opposed to voters or likely voters, this result stands out, especially after the Obama administration's attempts to both spin the numbers and blame George Bush for the economy. Fifty-four percent of respondents to the latest CNN poll disapprove of Barack Obama's performance ...
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Biased BBC (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
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The BBC's Ethical Man attends a FreedomWorks meeting: In the US state of Virginia the talk is of revolution. In the basement of a restaurant in Richmond we met 100 or so American patriots -ordinary people who claim to be the vanguard of a great new movement, a movement for American liberty. "Lower taxes, less government, more freedom", is their rallying cry… Their call to arms focuses...
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Archbishop Cranmer (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
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The Greens have their first martyr, but he won’t be burned at the stake because of concerns over the carbon footprint. Tim Nicholson was granted permission last March to invoke employment law for protection from discrimination for his conviction that climate change was the world's most important environmental problem. Today, he won the right to take his former employer to a tribunal on the grounds...
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normblog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
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Claude Lévi-Strauss, who celebrated his 100th birthday last November, has died in Paris. "The thirst for objective knowledge," he wrote, "is one of the most neglected aspects of the thought of people we call 'primitive.'" ..... [The] application of reason,...
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GREENIE WATCH (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
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Jim Hansen is not alone: More Warmist "adjustments" to pesky data The high-quality Argo data has been embarrassing Warmists because it shows the ocean as cooling. So what to do? Say that the sensors showing most cooling are "bad" and discard their data. Then combine the data from the remaining sensors with data known to show too much warming and -- hey presto! -- you have got rid...
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EvolutionBlog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
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Michael Ruse has a very bad op-ed in The Guardian . Jerry Coyne and P. Z. Myers have already laid into him ( here and here respectively), but why should they have all the fun? Ruse writes: If you mean someone who agrees that logically there could be a god, but who doesn't think that the logical possibility is terribly likely, or at least not something that should keep us awake at night, then I guess...
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Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
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The Guardian details the various political machinations that might derail any agreement on climate change at Copenhagen. However it doesn’t mention the crucial cap-and-trade provisions which if enacted would be used by more speculators to make money rather than helping to reduce carbon emissions. Six words to expose the scam After two years of distilling this down, [...]
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GREENIE WATCH (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
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Biblical lessons lost in the rush to control Earth's natural processes Article below by Richard Courtney from the mainstream "Scotsman" IN THE Bronze Age, Joseph told Pharaoh that climate had always changed everywhere: it always would. He told Pharaoh to prepare for bad times when in good times, and all sensible governments have adopted that policy throughout the millenniums since. It is...
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GREENIE WATCH (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
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The luck of the Irish A fun email from a reader below: I was trying to figure out how much carbon was produced in the manufacture and installation of a wind turbine compared to how much it actually saves over its lifetime. Being mathematically illiterate I had no hope of actually doing this but it was an interesting project and during my searches I came across THIS . Apparently peat bogs can store...
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Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
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The US Air Force is not only experimenting with lasers to kill missiles . They are now using them to transmit data from planes and drones, at 22 miles and enabling quantum encryption . They did it with adaptive optics: When you transmit information through turbulence—motion in the atmosphere caused by turbulent cells or "wind"—it's distorted just like the information coming from...
