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US Carbon Trade Legislation
“The largest corporate welfare program ever enacted in the history of the United States” according to Ronald Bailey, Reason magazine, commenting on the Waxman-Markey Bill. (0)
Join the Protest in Melbourne
All members of the community sceptical that CO2 causes climate change are most welcome to join in an “Educational protest” outside where Al Gore will be giving a speech at Docklands peninsula, Melbourne, on Monday 13th July. (1)
Evidence for 'Solar Signature'
Increasingly strong evidence of a clear solar signature in a number of climatic indicators in Europe, strengthening the earlier conclusions of a study that included stations from the United States… With the recent downturn of both solar activity and global temperatures… Read more here. (5)
Shrinking Sheep
CLIMATE change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday. Read more here. (7)
Beach Houses to Go
MILLIONS of dollars worth of luxury waterfront homes at Byron Bay will be demolished in the name of climate change following a council decision to enshrine “planned retreat” in law. Read more here. (4)
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Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, January 1st, 2009 - under News.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Economics
The Church of England’s Church Commissioners have gone green, investing £150 million with former US Vice-President Al Gore’s environmentally minded investment firm, Generation Investment Management. Read more here.
Conspicuous virtue is its own reward. There will be little other reward from this malinvestment.
Al Gore has just taken a huge risk. He has guaranteed the world that the northern polar ice cap will be gone in five years. I couldn’t believe it either until I saw the video.
To view his comments on video, visit the following site:
http://www.hootervillegazette.com
then click on Mr. Gore’s pic.
Happy viewing. You might also want to visit the video section
of this site to view an informative movie on global warming.
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