Using tragedy to advance an agenda has been a strategy for many global warming activists, and it was just a matter of time before someone found a way to tie the recent Myanmar cyclone to global warming.
Former Vice President Al Gore in an interview on NPR’s May 6 “Fresh Air” broadcast did just that. He was interviewed by “Fresh Air” host Terry Gross about the release of his book, “The Assault on Reason,” in paperback.
The United States and Europe should cut back on production of biofuels because they are hurting food supply at a time of rising prices, an adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday. "We need to cut back significantly on our biofuels programs," said Jeffrey Sachs, a prominent U.S. academic who is a special adviser to Ban on anti-poverty goals.
For those concerned about our “dependence upon foreign oil,” Leiberman-Warner’s cap and trade tax bill would increase—no—double it.
From E and E (subscription required):
API's analysis of a pending Senate climate bill from Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Va.) projects tens of billions of dollars in new compliance costs for U.S. oil and natural gas companies as they deal with emission limits linked to their fuel production as well as overall consumer use.
The added costs, API said, translate over the next 20 years into fewer gas well drilling operations and an overall reduction in domestic natural gas production — as much as 40 percent by 2030.
The API study, prepared by ICF International, an international consulting firm, also looked into the potential effects of the Lieberman-Warner bill on U.S. petroleum refinery production. The report concluded that the domestic refining industry would face increased competition from overseas, where plants would not have to deal with the same emission requirements.
API said investments in U.S. refineries could fall $11.5 billion per year by 2020 — equating to a cut of 3 million barrels a day in petroleum throughput. That, in turn, will lead to increased U.S. imports of crude oil and refined petroleum from a projected 2020 level of about 15 percent, to about 29 percent, API said.
Doubling our imports of oil.
Penguins don't live in the Arctic.
Let's call it Apocalypse Postponed. At least temporarily.
German climate scientists have just published a study in the respected science journal Nature suggesting global warming has stopped and will not resume until at least 2015.
In other words (my words, not theirs) contrary to the received wisdom of Al Gore's simplistic and propagandistic "An Inconvenient Truth," global temperatures aren't moving in lockstep with rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the science isn't settled and we don't know everything we need to know.
Much of Ken Livingstone's historic electoral success has been his ability to put himself across as a man of the people, in touch with the concerns of everyday folk.
Why, then, did he put climate change at the centre of his campaign?
Only 21% of respondents to a March Yougov poll thought that climate change should be in the top three priorities of the Mayor. Respondents considered issues like crime, transport, housing and tax to be of far greater importance.
LABOUR’S new green targets will cost every family in Britain more than £3,000, a Government dossier has warned. The decision by ministers to sign up to “unachievable” EU pledges on renewable energy will leave taxpayers with a £75billion bill.
Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch
As I mentioned in an earlier post, North Carolina's Climate Action Plan Advisory Group enlisted the Energy Center at Appalachian State University to apply its mumbo-jumbo economic analysis model (click on "Ponder presentation") to the recommendations that CAPAG produced. Undoubtedly the global warming believers wanted some public entity to tell them how all their energy tax hike and regulation ideas would improve the economy and create jobs, and the Energy Center delivered. They reported that by 2020, North Carolina would see $2.2 billion in new investment and 32,000 new jobs if all CAPAG's recommendations were implemented.
Focusing on details, the Energy Center was particularly optimistic about CAPAG's biofuel subsidy proposals. A proposal to replace 12.5 percent of the state's petroleum diesel fuel consumption with biodiesel by the year 2020 would yield 661 new jobs and $68 million in annual gross state product. Even more exciting, an ethanol subsidy of 23 cents per gallon, to replace gasoline consumption in the state with ethanol by 25 percent by the year 2025, would create more than 12,000 new jobs and increase gross state product by $4.1 billion.
Someone should have sent that memo to employees at Pilgrim's Pride, who closed a chicken processing plant in North Carolina in March, as well as six distribution sites. The reason?
Chief Executive Clint Rivers placed blame for the industry's trouble on the federal government's "deeply flawed" policy of paying subsidies for using corn to produce ethanol for fuel, which he said would cause food prices to rise further.
"American consumers are only just beginning to feel the impact of sharply higher food prices," as food producers pass along more of their higher costs, Rivers said.
Rivers said the company hasn't been able to raise prices fast enough to cover higher feed costs. He called the current situation facing poultry producers "among the most difficult I have seen during my 27 years in the business."
Apparently the science was settled, but the economics was not.
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