Onshore wind farm subsidies will end if the Conservatives win the next general election, according to Energy Minister Michael Fallon. The minister said that projects not granted planning permission before the election will not get the subsidy as Britain would
A few days ago, you may recall, I wrote a post explaining why I shan’t be encouraging my kids to go to Harvard. Now study the above photograph carefully and see if you can work out why I definitely, definitely
(AFP) — Warm sunshine and sandy beaches make south Florida and its crown city, Miami, a haven for tourists, but the area is increasingly endangered by sea level rise, experts said Tuesday. During a special Senate hearing held in Miami
Former US president Jimmy Carter on Tuesday urged his country and China, two of the world’s biggest fossil fuel polluters, to take the lead on halting climate change. If the two economic and political giants could agree on a way
More Americans believe in God than in man-made global warming, claims a new survey. Some will seize on this as proof that Americans are credulous and anti-scientific, but I’d draw the opposite conclusion. The survey – insofar as it can
The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility took a swipe at the EPA for sending bureaucrat Gina McCarthy on an greenhouse gas generating five city tour for Earth Day. Administrator McCarthy will undertake a greenhouse gas laden week-long tour that
Millions of Californians are still reeling from the economic downturn of the last several years. While the economy continues to recover, people are looking to their elected officials for leadership and purpose. Elected officials have a responsibility to positively impact
WASHINGTON (AP) — Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration’s conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and
From Salon.com: In the run-up to Earth Day this year, two major reports were released by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the largest such body in the world. On March 31, Working Group II released its report, Climate Change
Today, in the year 2064, as we look back over the last 50 years, it might seem as if the Abundance Revolution was inevitable, since so much wealth was involved. After all, it was wealth just waiting to be unleashed.
A truly emetic announcement from the grim but indispensable Swedish flatpack furniture emporium IKEA: they are considering changing the recipe of their most popular food line – meatballs – in order to help save the world from global warming. Says
Scientists believe they have discovered a near-unprecedented phenomenon – rarer, more elusive and mysterious than even the God Particle: an article in The Huffington Post on the subject of the environment and climate change which doesn’t once mention ‘man-made global
Cybercast News Service reported on Thursday that the average price for a kilowatthour (KWH) of electricity hit a March record of 13.5 cents. This number was released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and shows that average price went
The Environmental Protection Agency reports that U.S. greenhouse gasses have fallen by 10 percent since 2005. The EPA’s annual report on greenhouse gases also found that greenhouse gas emissions fell 3.4 percent over 2012. “U.S. emissions decreased by 3.4 percent
The Washington Free Beacon chronicles one of the many ways in which Big Government forces us to spend our money on propaganda designed to further the interests of the State: a taxpayer-funded play dubbed “Global Warming: The Musical,” for which
NOTE: This op-ed is apparently too hot for some editors to handle. Late last week it wasaccepted and posted on politix.topix.com only to be abruptly removed some two hourslater. After several hours of attempting to determine why it was removed,
The United Nations (UN) has delivered its latest verdict onthe measures necessary to save the world from global warming and thenews is as grim as it is predictable and wearisomely familiar: More regulation from “experts”, technocrats and bureaucrats atsupranational organisations,
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is now accusing the Keystone pipeline of being a cancer risk. Her first point was that the pipeline “will bring 830,000 barrels of dirty tar sands oil into our nation every day.” She then segued to
An Inconvenient Truth utilized a failed presidential candidate with a Power Point presentation to warn the world about global warming. Flash forward eight years. That warming is now a pregnant pause, and some of the ex-Vice President’s dire predictions haven’t come
Do they still read at Harvard these days or is at all just about empathy, gender awareness, race sensitivity and important stuff like that? I only ask because if they do still read at Harvard there’s an article I’d like
People should eat fewer baked beans as the flatulence they produce contributes to global warming, a minister has suggested. A Labour peer raised the issue during questions in the House of Lords earlier today, saying that Britons eat more baked
British schoolchildren are being brainwashed by a deep green environmental curriculum which fills their heads with “confusion, ignorance and fear”, says a new study by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. The report, by science writer Andrew Montford and statistician John
Hornswoggle is a word I have always liked. It is a verb meaning to bamboozle or to dupe. While its origin is considered “unknown,” the word is generally thought to be native to America. The word is said to date
