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Only the space aliens can save Earth from us!

Posted by: Phineas on August 21, 2011 at 5:53 pm » 16 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Really, the eco-loons must be getting desperate. With their credibility collapsing like Al Gore’s psyche and fewer and fewer people regarding the Great Demon Global Warming as a genuine threat, it’s apparently not enough to threaten that the Earth herself might punish us. Nope. Unless we mend our ways, something worse is [...]

 

The wind-power farce

Posted by: Phineas on July 3, 2011 at 1:01 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Maybe “scam” would be a better word for something that is pushed as a “green solution” to anthropogenic global warming (1) , yet doesn’t do what it promises to do, but what it does do is done at tremendous public cost, all while making the alleged problem worse. In the UK, wind [...]

 

Obama: “Drill there, drill now!”

Posted by: Phineas on April 27, 2011 at 5:24 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas This continuing self-inflicted wound on the American economy via the administration’s refusal to tap our own resources has to be deliberate, a matter of ideological choice. How else does one explain Obama’s demand that others pump more oil, but not us? Amid a surge in the cost of gasoline, President Barack Obama [...]

 

The grenade in your lamp

Posted by: Phineas on April 20, 2011 at 3:04 pm » 7 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Hey, you know those twisty compact fluorescent bulbs we’re being “encouraged” to buy because incandescents are so evil? You know, the light bulbs that are going to save the planet, because they’re (begin pious look) sustainable (sigh wistfully, end pious look)? They can explode and burn your house down: A compact fluorescent [...]

 

Should Mother Earth be given “human rights”?

Posted by: ST on April 12, 2011 at 6:23 pm » 10 Comments

Bolivia seems to think so: UNITED NATIONS — Bolivia will this month table a draft United Nations treaty giving “Mother Earth” the same rights as humans — having just passed a domestic law that does the same for bugs, trees and all other natural things in the South American country. The bid aims to have [...]

 

European Union to ban cars by 2050?

Posted by: Phineas on March 29, 2011 at 9:50 pm » 9 Comments

**Posted by Phineas In order to fight a problem that does not exist, the monster under the bed anthropogenic global warming, the European Union is pushing to ban automobiles by 2050: The European Commission on Monday unveiled a “single European transport area” aimed at enforcing “a profound shift in transport patterns for passengers” by 2050. [...]

 

California: Judge suspends implementation of job-killing “greenhouse gas” law

Posted by: Phineas on March 22, 2011 at 2:01 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas A rare victory for commonsense in the Golden State: Judge places California’s global warming program on hold A San Francisco superior court judge has put California’s sweeping plan to curb greenhouse gas pollution on hold, saying the state did not adequately evaluate alternatives to its cap-and-trade program. In a 35-page decision, Judge [...]

 

Labor unions to EPA: Save our jobs, not the environment!

Posted by: ST on March 14, 2011 at 1:24 pm » 6 Comments

Another one you can file under the Dept. of You Can’t Make This Stuff Up (bolded emphasis added by me): WASHINGTON—The Obama administration’s environmental agenda, long a target of American business, is beginning to take fire from some of the Democratic Party’s most reliable supporters: Labor unions. Several unions with strong influence in key states [...]

 

Study: “Green” initiatives actually costing more jobs than they create

Posted by: ST on February 28, 2011 at 5:31 pm » 11 Comments

Bad news for the AGW crowd – from the BBC (via Memeorandum): Government support for the renewable sector in Scotland is costing more jobs than it creates, a report has claimed. A study by consultants Verso Economics found there was a negative impact from the policy to promote the industry. It said 3.7 jobs were [...]

 

But… But… But I thought wind power would save the planet!

Posted by: Phineas on February 17, 2011 at 1:01 pm » 4 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Apparently they don’t do well in harsh winters, which isn’t good for their customers: A $200-million wind farm in northern New Brunswick is frozen solid, cutting off a supply of renewable energy for NB Power. The 25-kilometre stretch of wind turbines, 70 kilometres northwest of Bathurst, has been shut down for several [...]