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Quote Of The Week #13 « Watts...

Quote Of The Week #13 « Watts Up With That? ...NASA GISS model E written on some of the worst FORTRAN coding ever seen is a challenge to even get running. NASA GISTEMP is even worse. Yet our government has legislation under consideration significantly based on model output that Jim Hansen started. His 1988 speech to Congress was entirely based on model scenarios. Thoughts on Consensus & Settled...

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Waste-to-energy

Waste-to-energy is the process in which waste is used to generate useful energy –electricity, heat or both. This is possible (and convenient) when the heat generated by burning the waste is high enough to warrant satisfactory combustion conditions

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Al Gore in Melbourne - 13 July 2009

Those readers in Melbourne are invited by the Climate Sceptics Party to attend a protest against Al Gore's Safe Climate breakfast next Monday. Press Release - The Climate Sceptics Monday 6th July, 2009 Those attending the "Safe Climate" 7am breakfast with Al Gore on Monday July 13th will be met by a peaceful educational protest where they will be greeted by signs showing graphs and reasons...

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The Migrant Mind: Russia--No warming seen in...

The Migrant Mind: Russia--No warming seen in the Degree-Days Pt 3 The Arhangel'sk temperature record shows a step function between 1900 and 1930, when clearly the instrumentation changed. Since 1930, the number of degree-days has been declining at the rate of -.66 degree-days per year. This means Arhangel'sk has been cooling. The temperature here is certainly not behaving as the global warming people...

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Big Thompson Mesa, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

One hundred million years of rock formation are visible in exposed layers at Waterpocket Fold in Capital Reef National Park. This astronaut photo from June 14, 2009, shows the layered, multi-colored rock formations.

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'Treason against the planet' | Lorrie Goldstein...

'Treason against the planet' | Lorrie Goldstein | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun Reading Krugman's rant, it hit me -- folks like him have become the Joe McCarthys of modern American liberalism. Actually, Krugman sounded a lot like the infamous Sen. McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities in their glory days of "exposing" dirty commies plotting to destroy the U.S. in...

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The Carbon Age

The Carbon Age Journalist and science writer Eric Roston’s book The Carbon Age, highly praised when it was first published last year, is now available in paperback. It’s about carbon in the universe and the essential part it plays in life on Earth. It’s also about climate change, as its subtitle suggests: How Life’s Core [...]

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Glen Meakem: Junk this 'science' - Pittsburgh...

Glen Meakem: Junk this 'science' - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The most recent scientific work on climate indicates that solar activity beyond human control is and has always been a key driver of Earth's climate; 700 scientists now publicly support this view. Recognizing the new facts, Japan, Australia and New Zealand are all taking steps to stop their efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. It is time for...

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The most important tool

FROM- Charleston Gazette by Don Surber Would Galileo buy global warming? Skepticism is the critical tool of science FOR 2,000 years, the scientific debate was settled. The ancient Greeks had studied the skies, and had determined by the 4th century before Christ that the Earth was the center of the universe. The heavenly bodies rotated around the Earth in little wheels. Except for a few geocentric deniers,...

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Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy

Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy Journalist and science writer Eric Roston’s book The Carbon Age, highly praised when it was first published last year, is now available in paperback. It’s about carbon in the universe and the essential part it plays in life on Earth. It’s also about climate change, as its subtitle [...]

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Conrad Black, National Post - Tired lefties...

Conrad Black, National Post - Tired lefties on parade ...That over-indulged industry will have to do better than that to deal with the rising tide of doubts about human-caused global warming. Australia and New Zealand have rescinded their carbon-emission legislation. The Polish Academy of Sciences has renounced its previous faith in the Al Gore/ UN conventional wisdom about climate change. Hundreds...

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Skeptic's Corner: The People behind the people...

Skeptic's Corner: The People behind the people behind the story These are some of the companies and peoples behind the people behind the story on a world wide media outlet reporting why carbon dioxide is so bad and needs to be regulated as a pollutant, instead of a vital trace gas necessary for life on earth. It is sure nice to know that those evil fossil fuel industries are being hunted down and exposed...

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Dust Accelerates Snow Melt in San Juan Mountains

True-color images of the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado show a dramatic difference in snow appearance between 2008 and 2009. In 2009, dust has colored the snow dull brown and accelerated snowmelt.

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Hot Air » Blog Archive » The...

Hot Air » Blog Archive » The Obama Inquisition on climate change Carlin’s comments didn’t “help the legal or policy case” for the Obama administration? Actually, Carlin’s scientific analysis undermined the entire reason for those legal and policy choices. The effort to silence Carlin didn’t come because the EPA and the White House could easily refute...

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SustainabiliTank: Barron’s Magazine Editorial ...That’s the story...

SustainabiliTank: Barron’s Magazine Editorial ...That’s the story in some economics textbooks. In the real world, it is hard to find competent regulators, harder to understand the best scientific evidence and hardest of all to determine what emissions actually are noxious. The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there is no difference. But in practice, there is. The...

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Wind, Water And Sun Beat Biofuels, Nuclear And Coal For Clean Energy

Wind, Water And Sun Beat Biofuels, Nuclear And Coal For Clean Energy - www.carbonfreeenergy

The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing inside nuclear power plants, says Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. And "clean coal," which involves capturing carbon emissions and sequestering...

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Florida Hurricane Shutters - Miami Florida

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    The Best in Hurricane Shutters and storm protection in Florida

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A magnitude 7.1 earthquake was reported off the coast of Honduras

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake was reported off the coast of Honduras - prit

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake was reported off the coast of Honduras An earthquake of magnitude 7.1, the Honduras, on Thursday, killing at least four, and caused the collapse of houses in the fall in the neighboring country of Guatemala. Learn more about the earthquake in 2009 as part of Honduras. The local authorities feared the death toll will rise even further in the reports of the moutainous near