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

To: J.B.C. who wrote (2797)	8/7/2011 3:04:48 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 4326

Certainly not credible to a drooling God-hating, US Hating lefty.

To: J.B.C. who wrote (2797)	8/15/2011 7:01:16 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 4326

OBAMA'S GREEN PET GOES BANKRUPT ............................................................... Evergreen Solar files for bankruptcy, plans asset sale Got stimulus money, promised 800 jobs... By Greg Turner And Jerry Kronenberg Monday, August 15, 2011 bostonherald.com Evergreen Solar Inc., the Massachusetts clean-energy company that received millions in state subsidies from the Patrick administration for an ill-fated Bay State factory, has filed for bankruptcy, listing $485.6 million in debt. Evergreen, which closed its taxpayer-supported Devens factory in March and cut 800 jobs, has been trying to rework its debt for months. The cash-strapped company announced today has sought a reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware and reached a deal with certain note holders to restructure its debt and auction off assets. The Massachusetts Republican Party called the Patrick administration’s $58 million financial aid package, which supported Evergreen’s $450 million factory, a “waste” of money. “The bankruptcy of Evergreen Solar is another sad event for the Massachusetts company and highlights the folly of the Patrick-Murray Administration which has put government subsidies into their pet projects instead of offering broad based relief to all Bay State employers,” said Jennifer Nassour, head of the state GOP. Greg Bialecki, Patrick’s economic development czar, defended the administration’s support for the once-promising Evergreen. The state is still trying to recoup about $4 million in cash from the Marlboro-based company. “Not every company is going to be successful ... but we still believe the approach of providing business incentives to create and maintain manufacturing jobs in Massachusetts is an important strategy,” he said. Evergreen — hurt by lower-cost competition in China and plummeting prices for solar panels — also said it will cut more jobs — 65 layoffs in the United States and Europe, mostly through the shutdown of its Midland, Mich., manufacturing facility. That would leave Evergreen with about 68 workers according to a head count listed in the bankruptcy filing. To cut costs, Evergreen shifted some of its production to Wuhan, China, last year. That joint venture will remain operating subject to financing talks with Chinese investors. In January, after Evergreen announced it would close the Devens factory, Patrick told the Herald he was disappointed in the job losses but did not regret making the investment. “I think we did what we could have and should have,” he told the Herald. In March, during a state Senate hearing that explored the value of tax incentives for Bay State businesses, Evergreen CEO Michael El-Hillow said the company had “earned” 85 percent of the taxpayer benefits it received because of the jobs it originally created. Evergreen warned investors back in April that it was burning through cash because of slow sales, falling solar-panel prices and weak proceeds from the sale of Devens factory assets.

To: J.B.C. who wrote (2797)	8/16/2011 12:19:51 AM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4326

A short history of climate science hysteria By Gavin Atkins Aug 15, 2011 http://asiancorrespondent.com/62435/a-short-history-of-climate-science-hysteria/ Tim Blair recently posted this list of things that the media have trumpeted as being the “first casualties of climate change”. I thought it would be an interesting exercise to check the veracity of each story – but what I was not expecting is that every story up until 2010 (after which some of the claims are too recent to verify one way or another) has either been completely debunked, or has since had some serious doubts placed on it. So the following examples have not been cherry picked – it’s a quick analysis of every claim made about “the first casualty of global warming” up until 2010. Here are the stories that Tim gathered together, followed by the latest information about them: The claim: The golden toad was the first casualty of global warming The reality: “There is no evidence of a trend associated with global warming. Rather, the extinction of the Monteverde golden toad (Bufo periglenes) appears to have coincided with an exceptionally dry interval caused by the 1986–1987 El Niño event.” The claim: Tuvalu: Global Warming’s first casualty. Ten thousand people, Tuvalu’s entire population, are packing their bags as their homes among nine low level atolls are being swallowed by the rising sea. The reality: The last census shows that Tuvalu’s population continues to grow. The claim: Polar bears are set to become the first casualty of global warming. The reality: The total number of the world’s polar bear population is still thought to be between 20,000 and 25,000. The claim: The first casualty of global warming is India’s mangrove island on the Bay of Bengal, Lochachara ~ it is now gone. The reality: The loss of the island was almost certainly caused as part of the natural erosion of an island in a delta. The claim: The Maldives are the likely first casualty in any serious increase in global warming. The reality: The Maldives population continues to increase. The claim: Water could be the first casualty of global warming. The reality: Not in Australia it ain’t. Also, the argument that smaller glaciers means less water is pure illogical claptrap as explained eloquently by Jennifer Marohasy. The claim: Australia Could Become First Major Casualty Due To Global Warming. The reality: People in Sydney and Melbourne have wasted millions on desalination plants because of false predictions about water shortages. The claim: Losing winter: as climate change takes hold, North America’s coldest season is the first casualty. The reality: North America has experienced some of its biggest snow seasons on record. The claim: First Casualty of Global Warming? Rare breed of possum may be extinct. The reality: Live possums were discovered four months later. The claim: The Alaskan village of Newtok is the first casualty of climate change. The reality: The town of Newtok is still exactly where it always has been. The claim: UNEP had also recently declared that coral reefs, which support the majority of marine life, will be the first casualty of climate change. The reality: The reefs are doing fine. The claim: Brunt of climate change perceived in India; small Himalayan glaciers first casualty. The reality: UN climate chief admits mistake on Himalayan glaciers warning The claim: In India … agriculture is the first casualty of climate change. The reality: India produces record wheat and pulses crop.

To: J.B.C. who wrote (2797)	8/17/2011 10:26:50 AM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Respond to of 4326

HOW CROOKED Can They Get? ................................................................................................................................ Bankrupt Solar Company Stimulus Money Missing From Federal Records By Tom Gantert \| Aug. 17, 2011 michigancapitolconfidential.com When Evergreen Solar announced it was filing bankruptcy this week, the news sparked a flurry of stories pointing out how the “green” solar panel company had received money from the federal stimulus. The Massachusetts-based company was held up as another example of wasted taxpayers’ dollars under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). But Evergreen Solar may be a better example of just how complicated and difficult it can be to track the massive $821 billion federal stimulus. Because despite the White House and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick both citing Evergreen Solar as receiving stimulus money, the government’s website that tracks ARRA spending could find no evidence the solar panel company did indeed get that money. Recovery.gov, the U.S. government’s official website related to Recovery Act spending, could find nothing showing that Evergreen Solar received any stimulus money. “From our initial reviews, we can find no data in Recovery.gov indicating that Evergreen Solar received Recovery Act funds,” Recovery.gov spokesman Edward Pound said. It would be tough to blame all the websites that cited Evergreen as a recipient of ARRA money. The White House sent out an April 22, 2009, communication claiming the Recovery Act had success in creating jobs. The White House stated that because of the stimulus bill and new contracts, green energy companies were looking to hire. The White House then cited Evergreen Solar hoping to hire as many as 100 people. The state of Massachusetts put out a press release citing Evergreen Solar’s involvement with a project funded by the stimulus. Evergreen Solar put out its own press release in October 2010 that their panels were all compliant with the ARRA and could be used by projects funded by the stimulus. Pound said that even if Evergreen Solar had received stimulus funds as a subcontractor, there should have been some record of it.

To: J.B.C. who wrote (2797)	8/17/2011 10:40:24 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4326

Democrats Use 'Science' As a Weapon .............................................................................................................................. We see science used as a political weapon all the time. The “ Climategate” scandal demonstrated that there is widespread falsification of data and corruption among the world’s leading climate scientists. However, the socialist democrats and their propaganda machine (the mainstream media) continue to cling to this red herring and claim global warming is fact when in reality it is a poorly conceived hypothesis that has been completely disproved. More recently, Charles Monnett, the scientist who stated that polar bears are in danger if they have to swim farther for their food is being investigated for “unspecified integrity issues,” which is socialist speak for lying. Even though Al Gore’s book and movie An Inconvenient Truth have both been thoroughly debunked, it still doesn’t stop this socialist buffoon from continuing to repeat the great global warming lie and pocket hundreds of millions of dollars in the process. Just recently Gore went on an expletive laced tirade championing the granddaddy of all falsehoods. Of course no one in the mainstream media calls him on it, in fact, useful idiots like Chris Matthews actually help him perpetuate the myth. A few weeks ago Matthews went on the war path claiming that anyone who presents an opposing view to global warming is “evil and corrupt.” Matthews spews this lunacy even with recent reports from NASA and the Air Force that blow more gaping holes in the global warming hypothesis. The NASA report shows that the earth’s atmosphere is allowing heat to escape and that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not trapping heat (the greenhouse effect) as has been widely speculated. The Air Force report is even more damning to the socialist cause; it says that the sun is going into a period of decreased activity and that the earth is on the brink of a mini ice-age. So you see, to the socialist democrat, science is just another means at their disposal to further the destruction of a free American society. To them the ends always justifies the means. In other words, they will lie, cheat, and steal to implement their dream of a socialist state. toddkinsey.com