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Data Point – Worldwide Temperature rise from 1997 – 2012

From the Telegraph, reporting on the Met Office / Hadley Center (one of the leading “climate change” official entities: That would be 0.08 degrees Centigrade, or 0.144 degrees F. Dunno about you folks, but I certainly do not have a thermometer that is reliably accurate to measure that small of a difference!  And what are …

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Europeans Discover The Pollution Caused By BioFuels

The facade is cracking – reported by left-leaning Al-Reuters, posted on left-leaning Yahoo!, we learn that government-backed pollution reduction schemes might just have the opposite effect! Quelle horreur! Mon Dieu! Gor Blimey! What could be going on here? Well, it turns out that government mandates tend to have unintended consequences, in this case, increased Ozone …

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Data Point – (The Lack Of) Global Warming

Climate change conferences come and go, with repeated attempts by the World Statists to set up International governance to manage a non-existent problem. As Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley reports from the latest Hot Air fest in Doha, Man-made Global Warming has been almost exclusively confined to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPeCaC) conferences, …

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Yeah, I can see this happening more and more with smart electric meters….

Set the stage: former Enviro / Energy White House Advisor to Obama, Carol Browning (from US News and World Report) We need to make sure that we’re really moving electricity in the smartest way and using the most cost-effective electricity at the right time of day. Eventually, we can get to a system where an …

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How About Those Gas Prices?

“As you know, the government takes 40 percent of what you make. The other 60 percent, of course, taken by the gas stations.” — Jay Leno Been to a Gas Station Lately? Prices have spiked markedly in the last two weeks. For those of us driving Sport Utility Vehicles the effect is most pronounced. Just …

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CPAC: Starving at a Feast: Why Aren’t We Using Our Untapped Energy Resources?

Panel Discussion on how our energy resources are locked up by green energy elites and environmental wackos, moderated by James Taylor, Senior Fellow and Managing Editor, Environment and Climate News, Heartland Institute. The panel consisted of: Ann McElhinney, Film Director and Producer, “Not Evil Just Wrong“, and the upcoming “FrackNation” Charles Drevna, President, American Fuel …

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CPAC: Myron Ebell of Competitive Enterprise Institute

Grokster Mike, and Pete DaTechGuy interview Myron Ebel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Their chief areas of focus are energy policy and regulatory overreach. On the regulatory side, that includes both EPA silliness, and the regulatory uncertainty which prevents new businesses from starting up in the USA. CEI has also been at the forefront of …

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