As Britain shivers under a blanket of snow and ice, it has emerged that offshore windfarms have been idling to prevent icing up – and drawing electricity off the national grid to do so. Critics have pointed out the “folly”
While some reports indicate energy providers are meeting standards when it comes to relying on reuseable energy, diversity requirements across different forms of renewable energy as well as business costs are driving up costs for consumers.
An icy cold and strong winds hit much of Southern California Tuesday night into Wednesday, downing trees all over the state and stranding about 180 cars on the highways northeast of Los Angeles. The storm is also responsible for at least five deaths across California, reports Fox News.
Southern California-based SpaceX will attempt to go where no man has gone before; but it’s not where you would think.
Beginning January 1, California’s gasoline producers will be subject to new regulations under the state’s cap-and-trade system. As a result, gas prices for the state’s motorists will likely increase due to what opponents of the regulations are calling a “hidden gas tax,” although the ultimate amount of the increase is still anyone’s guess.
And up until now now Pope Francis had been doing so well: pious, popular, a scourge of incompetence and corruption, a champion of the poor…. But unfortunately, 2015 looks like the year he’s going to blow it all by casting
Farmers in California are worried that President Obama’s recent executive action on immigration will exacerbate a labor shortage problem in the Golden State’s agriculture industry.
New reports on Pope Francis’ encyclical letter on ecology, slated for release in the spring of 2015, appear to be aimed at stoking fires of division between conservatives and liberals. Though contents of the letter have yet to be released, the Guardian predicts that the Pope’s letter on human and environmental ecology “will anger deniers and US churches.”
The climate, as everyone knows, is simply too large and fluid to be controlled by a single machine. Still, you don’t have to go all the way to Pakistan to find people who think that Americans are controlling the weather.
Today marks the 10 year anniversary of the devastating tsunami that killed 230,000 people in the Indian Ocean-170,000 alone perished in Indonesia.
Christmas has come a couple of days early for climate sceptics, in what may well prove to be one of the biggest blows to the Global Warming religion since Climategate. This time the pillar of green faith which has been
Billionaire oil-trader-turned-green-evangelist Tom Steyer has made a very expensive discovery: at the cost of $4.5 million from his own pockets, he has learned that the Koch Brothers just aren’t evil enough, even for progressives, any more. Traditionally, the Koch Brothers
California’s recent rainstorms have brought fossils, several of which are believed to be millions of years old, ashore in the Bay Area and along the rest of Pacific coast. Among the rarer fossil finds this week was the tooth of
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Birds (RSPB) has scored another triumph in its ongoing mission to eradicate Britain’s avian species. A wind farm in Scotland, which the RSPB was instrumental in easing through the planning process ten years
Up to 75 families are facing a second Christmas away from their homes because of the flooding which hit the Somerset levels. Despite the Prime Minister saying money would be ‘no object’, residents have complained that insurance firms are dragging
Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA) gave President Obama a lump of coal for Christmas before talking about the coal industry’s importance to the US during Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Good morning, I’m Mike Kelly, and I have the
On September 4th at Sen Harry Reid’s “annual energy conference, where green-tech-industry players, environmentalists, and politicians” meet to discuss their agenda, ongoing or preferred, Center for American Progress founder and White House insider John Podesta blandly presented what may be the
Local anti-fracking activists in the North Texas City of Denton are surrounding themselves with national ‘green’ lobby-groups and lawyering it up. They say it is in response to the lawsuit that was filed to challenge the constitutionality of the ban
(UNITED NATIONS) — Activists are upset over the failure of recent negotiations on “global warming” that closed this week in Lima, Peru. Governments met yet again aiming to hammer out an agreement that would limit the greenhouse gases the left
