The Journal
Science
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I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing
He, he. ‘We can give billions of dollars to green energy research.’ ‘And that will enable us to replace gasoline with sunbeams?’ ‘Nothing lost in trying.’ ‘Except the billions of dollars.’ ‘That is taxpayer money. If…
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‘Green Fuels’ Aren’t Green
via Small Dead Animals: The ETC Group, an international organization supporting sustainability and conservation, has just published its newest report, an 84-page document that presents a lengthy criticism of “the new bioeconomy.” In it, principal author…
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Julia Gillard Makes No Sense
Julia Gillard is not stupid. But as Forrest Gump said, ‘Stupid is as stupid does.’ And there could hardly be anything more stupid than putting a punitive tax on the resource – cheap carbon fuels – that…
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And the Survey Says …
In the latest episode of Climate Family Feud, activist paper Scientific American ran a survey to guage its readers’ opinions on IPCC traitor Judith Curry and her opinions. The results show that Scientific American’s readers (over 4,000…
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Rare Earths, Monazite, Thorium and China
The rare earth elements are not ‘earths’ but metals. Nor are they rare. They are expensive because they are difficult to extract. Thorium isn’t a rare earth. It is generally found as a by-product of the processing of Monazite…
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Fixing Things That Ain’t Broke
With solutions that don’t work. I hope soon to comment on the Murray Darling proposals (costing billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs to ‘preserve’ something that never existed until fifty years ago) and SA’s…
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Osama Bin Laden Worried
And so he should be. But what is he worried about? Climate change. Of course. There are two possibilities here. Either Osama is an ignorant bloodthirsty hypocritical loon, and he really does believe that anthropogenic climate…
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Resistance Is Footle
Are the Islamists and Greens more like the borg, from Star Trek, or the Necromongers, from the sadly under-rated Chronicles of Riddick? OK. Don’t get the idea I have spent hours on this. But .. The Islamists…
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The Rising Tide of Stupid
Over forty morons were arrested in Newcastle in New South Wales today. It is not that stupidity is illegal in Australia. In fact the government relies on it for lottery income. These particular morons, repesenting ‘Rising…
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Unwarranted Assumptions
It turns out unwarranted assumptions are the largest single source of renewable energy. Take for example the Zero Carbon Australia, 2020 report which claimed that all of Australian energy could com from renewable energy sources by 2020. Ted (F.E.) Trainer, a…
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Floods and Dams
On Kangaroo Island, we have just been through a record breakingly wet Winter. There have been floods on the mainland too, but water restrictions are still in place in capital cities. The excuse for not building…
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CO2 Lunacy
A comment I posted on Tim Blair’s blog this morning: There are between three and four molecules of CO2 for every 10,000 particles of air. Anthropogenic CO2 is assumed to be about 4% of that, which comes…
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BBC Biased?
Well, it was biased. But we’ve fixed it. It’s all OK now. That’s according to Director General Mark Thompson. Well, good. Everyone in England who owns a TV pays for the BBC through taxes and licence fees.…
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Wind Power Is Not Working. What’s Next?
Pee power… Gerardine Botte, an engineer at Ohio University, said in an interview with New Scientist magazine that harnessing the power of urine could mean that an office building of 200-300 people would produce about 2Kw…
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It’s Freezing. Must Be Global Warming.
Arctic Summer temperatures have been trending down since about 1960, so have temperatures in San Diego, cold snaps are killing all manner of things in South America, Antarctic sea ice is increasing, the southern hemisphere oceans seem…
