July 17, 2011 – 4:02 pm
From the UK Telegraph by Andrew Gilligan, a peak at the future of Britain In the film Billy Elliot, a boy strives to be a dancer against the backdrop of the miners’ strike. Now, the place where they filmed it is the focus of another defining industrial struggle, with hundreds of thousands of jobs at […]
July 16, 2011 – 1:56 pm
I thought we had moved beyond this silliness, but, you know the climate morons never give up a good meme The storms that battered the West Coast during the winter of 2009-10 eroded record chunks of shoreline, and more will likely disappear as the changing climate brings more such powerful storm seasons, scientists warn in […]
July 16, 2011 – 8:30 am
Funny how this news was lost in the shuffle Friday, and I had to go to a British newspaper to find out Republicans claimed to have struck a blow for freedom on Friday when the House of Representatives voted to strip all funding from government programmes promoting energy-saving lightbulbs. The measure, brought as an amendment […]
July 14, 2011 – 11:40 am
Couldn’t resist this story Piracy in the Indian Ocean is hampering the efforts of climate change researchers to the point where they have had to call in the Australian Navy. Pirate activity off the coast of Somalia has increased dramatically over recent years, so much so that a quarter of the Indian Ocean is now […]
July 13, 2011 – 7:56 am
That’s what uber GINK, Lisa Hymas, at Grist wants to know, and she is always good for an unhinged and humorous rant about reducing the Earth’s population of Homo Sapiens Contraception has long been the province of women. Isn’t it about time for men to get in on the game? Ever heard of a condom, […]
July 10, 2011 – 4:48 pm
I mentioned this with a link to the Blog Prof earlier in the Patriotic Pinup post, but, it deserves a separate post to highlight the fascist tendencies of progressives Energy Secretary Steven Chu came out swinging Friday against a House bill that would repeal a 2007 federal law effectively outlawing older forms of incandescent bulbs—an […]
July 9, 2011 – 2:32 pm
Climate heretic Judith Curry points to an interesting passage …..What’s the goal of risk communication about climate change? To get people to ‘believe’? To see the issue the way the communicator wants them to? To get people to do what the communicator wants them to do? Or is it just to impart information so people […]
July 5, 2011 – 8:30 am
Climate alarmists are really, really digging for an excuse to remain relevant China’s rapid industrial expansion may have halted global warming for much of the last decade, climate scientists claimed. They said sulphur pollution from China’s coal-fired power stations helped to keep world temperatures stable despite soaring greenhouse gas emissions. Burning coal releases carbon dioxide […]
July 2, 2011 – 9:01 am
Deep in your heart, you just knew someone was going to link Independence Day and globull warming. In this case, it’s George Soros funded Think Progress: Global Warming Hates The Fourth Of July As fossil fuel pollution heats the planet, one of the casualties is the traditional celebration of the founding of the United States. […]
July 1, 2011 – 2:06 pm
Can we call it a religion cult yet? The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions are not falling fast enough to meet government targets, say advisers. Emissions rose by 3% during 2010, says the Committee on Climate Change (CCC). This was due to extra energy demand in cold weather; but the general trend is flat, which is […]
