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On the TV show In Search Of…The Coming Ice Age, Steven Schneider wonders whether mankind should intervene in staving off a coming ice age. Watch the old footage on YouTube here. (24)
Australian Liberals Oppose Carbon Trading
Australian Opposition Leader (Malcolm Turnbull) will be forced to stare down more than two-thirds of the Liberal back bench if he proceeds with his plan to negotiate with the government over amendments to the emissions trading scheme before December’s Copenhagen climate change conference. Read more here. (2)
Not Evil Just Wrong
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Climate Change Summit in New York
In New York… Chinese leader Hu Jintao … U.S. President Barack Obama more or less shuffled climate control policy off into the great dreamscape of unattainable plans and long range objectives. Like equality for all and peace in our time … Terence Corcoran, Financial Post (1)
Minerals Industry Now Complaining
THE [Australian] minerals industry has demanded [the Prime Minister] Kevin Rudd overhaul his proposed emissions trading system or risk smashing Australian jobs and the nation’s industrial competitiveness. Read more here. (1)
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Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, November 22nd, 2008 - under News.
The U.S. Minerals Management Service did not properly consider the risks of oil spills, disturbance to migrating whales, disruptions to the traditional hunting lifestyle of Inupiat Eskimos and other potential harms from Shell’s program to drill. Read more here.
The political left, whether social democrat or, coloured in a greener hue, greens, control government in the U.S. and it’s going to interesting watching them turn the U.S. into a latter day U.K. Same idiots but with a 50 year lag in the U.S.
Isn’t socialism grand! Everyone one becomes equally poor while the latter day robber barons run the place.
Anyone can claim anything, few can prove it. The worst track record of all is the green-wackos.
Kind of puts the lie to “the coniving oil interests” doesn’t it? Though, if the write-up is correct, once a detailed EIS is done, it will be most difficult to stop Shell unless factual errors can be shown.
Extract from the Reuter’s article:
“The Alaska outercontinental shelf holds an estimated 26.6 billion barrels of undiscovered recoverable crude oil and 132 tcf of undiscovered recoverable natural gas, according to the most recent MMS resource estimate. Nearly all of that is in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, according to the resource estimate. (Editing by Mary Milliken and Christian Wiessner)”
I wonder how they can work out what is there to be discovered when they don’t actually know because it hasn’t been discovered yet. Government science causes serious glazing of the eyes.