Europe's once celebrated cap-and-trade system to limit carbon emissions has languished. The economic crisis has caused the price of emissions licenses to plummet, and a recent remedy to the problem has been rejected by EU lawmakers. Climate policy expert Felix Matthes tells SPIEGEL ONLINE that an opportunity has been squandered. more...
The world must spend an additional $14 trillion on clean energy infrastructure, low-carbon transport and energy efficiency to meet the United Nations’ goal for capping the rise in average global temperatures, according to a World Economic Forum report released on Monday.What can be expected from these "greening investment" projects? In order to anticipate future plans, a comprehensive understanding of the past and present shady business practices is crucial.
Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon states the globalist viewpoint.
Economic growth and sustainability are inter-dependent, you cannot have one without the other, and greening investment is the pre-requisite to realizing both goals.
Perhaps the biggest of the environmental hypocrites is Mr. Al Gore
Nobel Laureate Gore purchased a $9 million mansion in the luxurious hills of Montecito, California, recently, and with the exception of the Los Angeles Times and Fox News, America’s media couldn’t care less.
Al Gore’s California mansion – do you see any alternative energy solar panels?
You think it might be because the Gore-loving press wouldn’t want people to consider the possibility that all of his global warming hysteria was really about lining his wallet and not saving the planet?
Formulate a response to that question as you look at what all that money the former Vice President is making off of spreading this myth can buy. Then there is his little cottage in Tennessee which uses more energy than some small cities.
Gore’s 19,000 square foot Nashville home…yup, still no solar panels…skylights yes, lots of gas-hogging SUV’s but no solar panels.
Al Gore has been preaching energy efficiency and CO2 reduction for more than three decades. BUT, the Gore Tennessee home above is among the least-efficient high-CO2-emitting residential sources of global warming in America. That does NOT mean that man-made climate change is a political hoax. It just proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that Al Gore Is A Two-Faced Hypocrite, who has no clue about what to do.
Climate change sceptics are often derided as uninformed - but a new study proves that the opposite is the case.
Sceptical individuals are slightly MORE science literate than 'believers' in climate change.
The difference isn't huge, according to a survey of 1500 U.S. adults.
57% of sceptics are 'science literate' according to tests asking basic science and maths questions, versus 56% of believers.
Greenpeace activists: Sceptical individuals are slightly MORE science literate than 'believers' in climate change
Dan Kahan, Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School said, 'Political controversy over climate change cannot be attributed to the public's limited ability to comprehend science.' he said.
Researchers measured ‘science literacy’ with test items developed by the National Science Foundation.
The questions were simple questions such as 'Electrons are smaller than atoms, true or false?'
They also measured their subjects' ‘numeracy’—that is, their ability to understand quantitative information.
The controversy comes down, in effect, to a conflict over values - and informed individuals are better at fitting the scientific facts, and gaps in our knowledge, to whatever they happen to believe in.
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The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.
The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.
Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.
A painting, dated 1684, by Abraham Hondius depicts one of many frost fairs on the River Thames during the mini ice age
Meanwhile, leading climate scientists yesterday told The Mail on Sunday that, after emitting unusually high levels of energy throughout the 20th Century, the sun is now heading towards a ‘grand minimum’ in its output, threatening cold summers, bitter winters and a shortening of the season available for growing food.
Solar output goes through 11-year cycles, with high numbers of sunspots seen at their peak.
We are now at what should be the peak of what scientists call ‘Cycle 24’ – which is why last week’s solar storm resulted in sightings of the aurora borealis further south than usual. But sunspot numbers are running at less than half those seen during cycle peaks in the 20th Century.
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Sulfur particles in the air deflect the sun's rays and can temporarily cool things down a bit. That can happen even as coal-burning produces the carbon dioxide that contributes to global warming.
'People normally just focus on the warming effect of CO2 (carbon dioxide), but during the Chinese economic expansion there was a huge increase in sulfur emissions,' which have a cooling effect, explained Robert K. Kaufmann of Boston University. He's the lead author of the study published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.This admission would seem to indicate several things; 1) climate science is still very much an unsolved mystery, 2) yet, climate studies start from the notion that human activity is the main driver whether the planet heats up or cools down, 3) therefore indicating, god-like human manipulation can reverse planetary climate trends.
So What happened to NASA's GLOBAL WARMING????
By P Gosselin on 17. Dezember 2010
Der Spiegel warned of a coming ice age in 1974. 10,000 to 1 odds against warming. (Photo source: Wikipedia)
An increased frequency in extreme weather events, a cooling North Atlantic, and growing Arctic sea ice were viewed as signs of climate change. The odds of a warmer climate in the future, according to one scientist, were “at best 1 in 10,000″ (see below). That’s what Der Spiegel wrote about in a 3700-word article back in 1974, warning the world of a coming ice age.
Hat tip: oekowatch.org.
In that issue Der Spiegel described a series of ”weather extremes” occurring all over the world, claiming they were unmistakable signs of a climate change to cooling: deluges of rain in West Germany, severe thunderstorms that uprooted trees and blew off roofs in Berlin, the worst storm in 100 years devastating much of Lower Saxony, hurricane Agnes inflicting 3 billion dollars in damage, floods in Japan and Peru, temperatures in Argentina, India and South Africa dropping to their lowest levels in 300 years.
Back in 1974, in its introduction, Der Spiegel wrote:
In August 2009, General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson announced that the new Chevrolet Volt, GM’s first electric car, would get an estimated 230 miles per gallon. The faltering car company hoped that the exceptionally high government mileage rating could give the Volt a major sales boost. “Having a car that gets triple-digit fuel economy can and will be a game changer for us,” Henderson predicted.
But more than a year later, the Chevy Volt is finally ready to hit sales lots, but may give Henderson his own sticker shock. The EPA mileage rating for the Volt now stands at 93 mgp, significantly less than previous predictions. The Volt‘s rating comes just days after Nissan’s own electric vehicle, the Leaf, received an estimated 99 mpg rating. MORE
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