CASEY STEGALL
Fox News
June 27, 2010
Police in Oregon have released an audio recording of the statement made by 54-year-old massage therapist who once claimed that former Vice President Al Gore tried sexually assaulted her.
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Police release tapes of Al Gore accusor
Monday, June 28th, 2010EU banned heated family houses built from 2020
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010The European Union has adopted a regulation that will ban the construction of ordinary family houses, starting from 2020. Only the so-called passive houses will be allowed:
iDNES.CZ (autom. transl. into EN), EU Business, EU Parliament, Euractiv, Panda.ORG, The Energy Collective;
Preliminary text of the directive (PDF)
For example, page 33/71 of the PDF document above says that all new buildings have to be “nearly zero-energy buildings” by the end of 2020. It has to be true by the end of 2018 for all new buildings occupied by public authorities.
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Kyl Authors Policy Report on Impact of Solar Power Production on Water Resources
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) today released a new policy report, “Deploying Solar Power in the State of Arizona: A Brief Overview of the Solar-Water Nexus,” that provides a detailed look at the potential water-energy crisis in Arizona developing as a result of the rush to deploy water-intensive solar production in the state.
“While solar is a renewable resource, Arizona’s water is not,” said Senator Kyl. “Policymakers have an obligation to protect the state’s limited water supply and put its water resources to their highest and best use. Using Arizona’s water supplies to produce conventional CSP (Concentrating Solar Power), much of which will be exported out of state, does neither.”
A major objective of federal and state energy policy is to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy technology and invest in its development. Government-created incentives and mandates are being established to accomplish this objective. In Arizona, the state Corporation Commission has already mandated that electrical utilities generate at least 15 percent of their power from renewable sources, such as solar — and some would like to see that number set even higher in the future.
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Barrasso pledges to fight ‘cap and trade’
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
CHEYENNE — The junior senator from Wyoming, the nation’s top coal-producing state, says he will do everything he can to prevent a climate-change bill from passing the Senate.
The “cap and trade” legislation would set limits for gases blamed for global warming — mainly carbon dioxide — while allowing companies to buy and sell permits for emitting greenhouse gases. The bill passed the U.S. House along party lines Friday.
The legislation amounts to a tax on greenhouse emissions and is likely to raise energy costs for consumers, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press.
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Oxford Union Debate on Climate Catastrophe
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010Army of Light and Truth 135, Forces of Darkness 110
For what is believed to be the first time ever in England, an audience of university undergraduates has decisively rejected the notion that “global warming” is or could become a global crisis. The only previous defeat for climate extremism among an undergraduate audience was at St. Andrew’s University, Scotland, in the spring of 2009, when the climate extremists were defeated by three votes.
Last week, members of the historic Oxford Union Society, the world’s premier debating society, carried the motion “That this House would put economic growth before combating climate change” by 135 votes to 110. The debate was sponsored by the Science and Public Policy Institute, Washington DC.
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35 Inconvenient Truths
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010The errors in Al Gore’s movie
A spokesman for Al Gore has issued a questionable response to the news that in October 2007 the High Court in London had identified nine “errors” in his movie An Inconvenient Truth. The judge had stated that, if the UK Government had not agreed to send to every secondary school in England a corrected guidance note making clear the mainstream scientific position on these nine “errors”, he would have made a finding that the Government’s distribution of the film and the first draft of the guidance note earlier in 2007 to all English secondary schools had been an unlawful contravention of an Act of Parliament prohibiting the political indoctrination of children.
Al Gore’s spokesman and “environment advisor,” Ms. Kalee Kreider, begins by saying that the film presented “thousands and thousands of facts.” It did not: just 2,000 “facts” in 93 minutes would have been one fact every three seconds. The film contained only a few dozen points, most of which will be seen to have been substantially inaccurate. The judge concentrated only on nine points which even the UK Government, to which Gore is a climate-change advisor, had to admit did not represent mainstream scientific opinion.
Ms. Kreider then states, incorrectly, that the judge himself had never used the term “errors.” In fact, the judge used the term “errors,” in inverted commas, throughout his judgment.
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Proved: There is No Climate Crisis
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010Christopher Monckton, who once advised Margaret Thatcher, demonstrates via 30 equations that computer models used by the UN’s climate panel (IPCC) were pre-programmed with overstated values for the three variables whose product is “climate sensitivity” (temperature increase in response to greenhouse-gas increase), resulting in a 500-2000% overstatement of CO2’s effect on temperature in the IPCC’s latest climate assessment report, published in 2007.
Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered [http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/index.cfm] demonstrates that later this century a doubling of the concentration of CO2 compared with pre-industrial levels will increase global mean surface temperature not by the 6 °F predicted by the IPCC but, harmlessly, by little more than 1 °F. Lord Monckton concludes –
“… Perhaps real-world climate sensitivity is very much below the IPCC’s estimates. Perhaps, therefore, there is no ‘climate crisis’ at all. … The correct policy approach to a non-problem is to have the courage to do nothing.”
Larry Gould, Professor of Physics at the University of Hartford and Chair (2004) of the New England Section of the American Physical Society (APS), has been studying climate-change science for four years. He said:
“I was impressed by an hour-long academic lecture which criticized claims about ‘global warming’ and explained the implications of the physics of radiative transfer for climate change. I was pleased that the audience responded to the informative presentation with a prolonged, standing ovation. That is what happened when, at the invitation of the President of our University, Christopher Monckton lectured here in Hartford this spring. I am delighted that Physics and Society, an APS journal, has published his detailed paper refining and reporting his important and revealing results.‘
“To me the value of this paper lies in its dispassionate but ruthlessly clear exposition – or, rather, exposé – of the IPCC’s method of evaluating climate sensitivity. The detailed arguments in this paper, and, indeed, in a large number of other scientific papers, point up extensive errors, including numerous projection errors of climate models, as well as misleading statements by the IPCC. Consequently, there are no rational grounds for believing either the IPCC or any other claims of dangerous anthropogenic ‘global warming’.”
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Why Won’t Al Gore Debate?
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010by Joseph Bast
CHICAGO, IL: In recent months, former vice president Al Gore has become the world’s most recognized advocate of the theory that human greenhouse gas emissions are altering the world’s climate and could cause catastrophic damage if not arrested and reduced. He is getting hundreds of millions of dollars in free publicity from the press and from environmental groups that echo his warning.
But Al Gore refuses to debate those who say global warming is not a crisis.
Maybe it’s because climate alarmists tend to lose when they debate climate realists. Or because most scientists do not support climate alarmism.
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
US Court Orders Records Unsealed In Cap-And-Trade Fraud Case
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009By Ian Talley, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. legislators have obtained a court order unsealing documents in a case involving a multi-million-dollar cap-and-trade fraud.
Republican legislators say the records–due to be opened to the public in early January–could shed light on the potential challenges of policing a new, trillion-dollar commodities market that would be created under climate legislation that Congress is considering.
In a rare filing by House lawyers, Reps. Joe Barton (R., Texas) and Greg Walden (R., Ore.), the ranking members respectively of the Energy Committee and the Oversight Subcommittee, asked a federal district court in California to unseal all the closed records regarding the successful prosecution for fraud of Anne Masters Sholtz, a former California Institute of Technology economist.
Lawmakers say Sholtz’s case could expose the weaknesses of a federal cap-and- trade system because it involved the same market mechanism meant to cut emissions.
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Climate change film debut draws supporters, critics
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009By Ken Hedler, The Daily Courier
Monday, October 19, 2009
PRESCOTT – A documentary that seeks to debunk the Oscar-winning movie about Al Gore on global warming drew a near-capacity crowd Sunday evening in the Performance Hall at Yavapai College.
“Not Evil Just Wrong – The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria” interviews experts who claim ice caps are melting because of natural causes, and contends measures to reduce carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels would be a financial burden for average Americans.
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The most trusted name in news covers NEEM
Monday, October 19th, 2009On October 19, Heidi Cullen filed a report for unbiased, trustworthy PBS Newshour on the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling Project, or NEEM. Scientists are focused on a period known as the Eemian, which began about 130,000 years ago and lasted about 10,000 years. During the Eemian, temperatures were between 5 and 9 degrees F warmer than today, and global sea level was 13 to 20 feet higher. Under many climate change scenarios, global temperatures are projected to warm a similar amount this century, so understanding the climate of the Eemian could teach us more about the potential effects of warming today.
Heidi Cullen reports, “The Eemian period started about 130,000 years ago and we know it lasted about 15,000-years before the earth plunged back into an ice age.”
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