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Is South Australia’s Wind Power Cheap? Well, No
THE HIDDEN COSTS WIND POWER WON’T TELL YOU ABOUT. While this Post specifically discusses wind power in one State of Australia, it is indicative of wind power wherever it is being brought into use. Those hidden costs I mention above are for the cost of replacement power for when wind power is not delivering power […]
How The Greens Pick Your Pocket
By Alan Caruba ~ The famed Boston Tea Party was a protest against “taxation without representation”, but our pockets are picked every day by a plethora of taxes of which most Americans are not even aware. We get robbed when the federal government thwarts exploration and extraction of energy resources that would greatly reduce those […]
Farm Bill Wastes More Taxpayer Money On Green Subsidies
By Nicolas Loris ~ Slapping the word rural in front of a bunch of green subsidies does not mean they’re not subsidies. But that’s exactly what the Rural Energy Investment Act section of the Senate version of the farm bill legislation does. The legislation includes direct handouts and loan guarantees for advanced biofuels and bio-refineries, […]
Australia’s Climate Change Minister Greg Combet Announces The Death Of The Global Warming Scare
By Andrew Bolt ~ I watched the global warming scare this week drowning in a pool of red ink, right on my television screen. I don’t just mean Climate Change Minister Greg Combet being forced yesterday to eat his mendacious words, having blown a gigantic hole in the Budget . First there was Monday night’s […]
Keystone XL And Natural Gas Provide Energy Trade Opportunities
By Nicolas Loris ~ In June 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama said, “If we continue to let our trade policy be dictated by special interests, then American workers will continue to be undermined, and public support for robust trade will continue to erode.” That’s exactly what’s happening with respect to energy trade. Special interests want […]
Tier 3 Rules Are Unnecessary, Costly
And designed solely to provide EPA with more jobs and more power over people’s lives. By Paul Driessen ~ 1,920 and counting! That’s how many regulations President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has promulgated since his 2009 inauguration. Many, if not most, will bring few health or environmental benefits – but will impose high economic and […]
Solar Energy Embarrassingly Less Productive Than Coal
By Rudy Takala ~ A map recently released by the Solar Foundation highlights the industry’s claim that 119,000 Americans are now employed in the solar industry. Its authors exclaim, “The United States solar industry employs more workers than coal mining.” What the map doesn’t touch on is whether solar energy is the most economical energy […]
‘Global Warming’ Was Always Far Too Important To Be Left To The Scientists
By James Delingpole ~ Now that global warming is completely unravelling, I want to elaborate on a point I made a few blogposts back about the role of humanities graduates in this great debate. On the face of it, their record isn’t good. Some of the most influential promulgators of climate nonsense have been arts […]
Professor Judith Curry: Less Warming Than Predicted. Models Seem Wrong
By Andrew Bolt ~ Professor Judith Curry’s statement yesterday to a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee investigating global warming: I am Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology… If all other things remain equal, it is clear that adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will warm […]
The EPA Snake Pit
By Alan Caruba ~ Under President Obama, two women have been the director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Carol Browner, who served in the Clinton administration and was one of the “czars” Obama appointed; her acolyte Lisa Jackson, and up for the post is Gina McCarthy. Browner and Jackson went out of their way to conceal their internal […]
Earth Day: People Are Our Most Precious Resource
By Katie Tubb ~ Google is celebrating Earth Day with a doodle of sunny skies, mountain peaks, hills, and blue waters. Sure, it’s appropriate to celebrate this wonderful planet we call home. But Google—along with too many others—forgot the most important part of Earth Day: people. The best, most interested, and invested stewards of the […]
With Climate Change Science Unsettled, A Carbon Tax Is Even More Useless
By Nicolas Loris ~ Reuters’s environment correspondent Alister Doyle provides even more fodder for why a carbon (energy) tax or the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulation of greenhouse gas emissions is economically and environmentally foolish. Doyle writes: Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and […]
They Said The World Would Warm Dangerously, Too
By Andrew Bolt ~ Climate Change Minister Greg Combet in April 2012:: KELLY: Have you looked at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance prediction which suggests that the international carbon prices could be as low as $5 a tonne by 2020 let alone by 2015? COMBET: Well I have discussed a range of the forecasts while […]
EPA Seeks To Punish Drivers (Again) Via Its Tier 3 Regulations
EPA’s proposed sulfur standards for gasoline will cost billions for no real benefits. By Paul Driessen ~ President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has already promulgated a tsunami of 1,920 regulations, many of which will bring few health or environmental benefits but will impose high economic and unemployment costs, often to advance the Administration’s decidedly anti-hydrocarbon […]
Australia’s Carbon System Sheme Rocked: Budget To Lose Billions
By Andrew Bolt ~ Europe’s carbon permits have crashed to record new low prices, leaving the Australian Federal Government facing a budget hole of more than $4 billion a year from 2015. The price of Europe’s Emissions Trading System permits dropped overnight to just $3.33. Australia’s price is $23 a tonne – by far the […]
WaPo Omits Bad Pew Study Numbers On Global Warming
By Matt Vespa ~ Yesterday, Juliet Eilperin wrote for the Washington Post that “the public interest in climate change is waning.” Posted to Chris Cillizza’s Fix blog, it’s odd that Eilperin didn’t use any hard numbers in this piece. Citing Pew, she did say that support has dropped six points since last October, but what, […]
Climate Change Australia – Flannery’s Warnings Aren’t Really Worth Hearing
By Andrew Bolt ~ Tim Flannery contemplates Liberal plans to scrap his Climate Commission and dump him with it: Ignoring it or shooting the messenger will not reduce the threat of climate change, it will just mean that Australia is less prepared. Actually, shooting this messenger (metaphorically) might leave Australia less prepared for what doesn’t […]
More Millions Burned On The Warmist Altar
By Andrew Bolt ~ Green water will drive you broke: A parliamentary committee has heard it will cost about $15 million more each year to power Adelaide’s desalination plant with renewable energy than it would with fossil fuel. SA Water has confirmed the use of green energy to power the plant will cost $43.7 more […]
Climategate Leaker: Our Civilization Is Being Destroyed By Lying ‘Science’ Elitists
By Ron Arnold ~ “What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multi-decadal natural fluctuation? They’ll kill us probably.” This private musing between two climate scientist colleagues first surfaced along with a whole raft of embarrassing material in 2011, when the anonymous Climategate leaker who calls himself “Mr. FOIA” leaked his second set […]
A Carbon Tax Would Destroy America
By Alan Caruba ~ If you want to know what a carbon tax on emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would do to America you need only look at the destruction of industry and business in Australia, along with the soaring costs for energy use it imposes on anyone there. “The carbon tax is contributing to […]
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May 18, 2013 by TonyfromOz
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