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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (2403)	4/3/2011 8:17:49 PM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Respond to of 4326

Facts mean nothing to demented leftists married to their unholy flawed ideologies.

To: longnshort who wrote (2403)	4/5/2011 11:17:39 AM
From: joseffy	5 Recommendations Respond to of 4326

Cold winters cause global warming dailymail April 05, 2011 blogs.dailymail.com From the Guardian: UK greenhouse gas emissions rise Cold winter leads to 2.8% rise in greenhouse gas emissions in 2010, figures show. Greenhouse gas emissions rose by nearly 3% last year, according to government statistics released on Thursday. The increase was a result of the continuing recovery of the economy after the crash which followed the banking crisis of 2008. Overall, emissions of the six major greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide were up 2.8% on 2009. Previously, due in part to the recession hitting industry and energy use, 2009 had seen large falls in greenhouse gases (down 8.7% on 2008). But the increase means that the UK’s target of cutting emissions by 35% by 2022 is now harder to meet. Campaigners warned that the rise showed that efforts to transform the UK’s economy on to a low-carbon footing were faltering. Yes, the cold winter’s increase in greenhouse gas emissions — as people heated their homes — did make it more difficult to meet that arbitrary goal of reducing industrial, commercial and residential emissions of greenhouse gas. But the cold winter also made such a reduction seem silly. Perhaps shutting off the lights and turning down the heat at the Department of Energy and Climate Change would help reduce those emissions. Of course the cold winter also goes to show that climate change is natural, just as season change is. Everything in life changes. Ancient Man knew this. Modern science? Well, there is no money to be made in telling the truth, is there?

To: longnshort who wrote (2403)	4/7/2011 8:57:38 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 4326

Large North Dakota Wind Farm Falls to the Birds Spectrum ^ \| 4-7-11 \| Dave Levitan spectrum.ieee.org Wind power's impact on wildlife has long been a sticking point when it comes to the renewable resource's development. Ever since the Altamont, California turbines went up in the late 1970s, bird kills have been highlighted as the best reason to show some restraint on massive wind farms. Nothing has changed today: most recently, Minnesota-based utility Xcel Energy canceled a contract to build a 150-megawatt wind farm because of concerns over bird impacts. The wind farm, which was to be built in southeastern North Dakota by enXco Development Corp., would have cost about $400 million and was scheduled to be completed by the end of this year. But two endangered species have scuttled the plan: the whooping crane and the piping plover. Xcel would have had to spend time and money attempting to mitigate any threats to the birds, and apparently those requirements made the project too uncertain to move forward. Bird groups and some other environmentalists have focused heavily on the wind turbine impacts; a recent American Bird Conservancy video showed a vulture being struck by a turbine, and there are reportedly hundreds of thousands of bird fatalities each year due to wind power. As Andy Revkin points out at Dot Earth, though, this is actually a fairly low number compared to other manmade structures. If buildings kill hundreds of millions of birds every year, stopping short on wind power entirely because of such concerns might be the wrong move. Still, Xcel's move to protect two species that are down to only a few individuals in certain areas is commendable. Proper siting and configuration of wind farms can obviously help with this issue as well; the Altamont turbines were small and situated extremely close together. Doing things carefully, in this case, will be better than not doing them at all.