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Telegraph – Australia to prosecute over Chinese ship’s Barrier Reef shortcut

Those responsible for a Chinese ship that crashed on an illegal route at the Great Barrier Reef, leaking tonnes of oil, will be prosecuted, Australia said on Sunday.

It’s a good thing a couple people turned their lightbulbs off the other day. Cuz, you [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

…And other ironically delivered lines about environmentalist efforts these days.

Globe and Mail – China denies responsibility for shrinking Mekong River

Vital waterway at its lowest level in nearly 20 years; originates in Tibet and is the lifeblood for 65 million people in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam

Oh hurrah!

“The building and [...]

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This is how they tried to save the Yellow River Dolphin: “Jiangsu province Changshu City Fluorine Chemical industry land sewage treatment plant (江苏省常熟市氟化学工业园污水处理厂) was responsible for collection and processing of the industrial sewage. However they did not, the sewage pipe was extended 1500 meters under the Yangtze River and releasing the sewage there. 2009 June [...]

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SO MUCH but so little energy…

On Unions and how to deal with them:

Corner – State of the Nation, by John Derbyshire

This headline brightened up my breakfast: Unionized Rhode Island Teachers Refuse To Work 25 Minutes More Per Day, So Town Fires All Of Them [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

A little Super Bowl ads warm-up:

Audi 2010 Green Car Super Bowl Commercial

I love Audi.

And yes, that is the car I want.

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The Globe & Mail – The great global warming collapse As the science scandals keep coming, the air has gone out of the climate-change movement, by Margaret Wente

The impetus for the Copenhagen conference was that the science makes it imperative for us to act. But even if that were true – and even if [...]

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I’m just giving up now. There was no way I was going to get anything done today and tomorrow I get to go on a quick 2-night trip home! Woohoo!

So for today’s post, as all you ninmates are doubtless aware, Lord Monckton is on tour in Australia and Aussie Brett McS was on the [...]

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Send in Nancy Drew!

Telegraph Blogs – Climategate goes American: NOAA, GISS and the mystery of the vanishing weather stations

For those who haven’t seen it, here’s a link to US weatherman John Coleman’s magisterial demolition of the Great AGW Scam. I particularly recommend part 4 because that’s the one with all the meat. It [...]

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And Australian Climate Skeptic Speaking Tour Correspondent Brett McS will be on the scene!

Climate Change and Global Warming Australian Tour details Lord Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Scottish Peer, former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, and International Business Consultant Professor Ian Plimer – School of Earth [...]

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This is amazing. takes notes

Watts Up With That – Climate change: proposed personal briefing

A letter sent from: The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley 1 January 2010 His Excellency Mr. Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister, Commonwealth of Australia. Prime Minister,

He even addresses his letters [...]

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I’ve had this open for weeks and it’s starting to affect my conscience. And Safari performance.

WSJ – Time for a Climate Change Plan B The U.S. president is in deep denial. By Nigel Lawson

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First, curtsies to RC2:

New Geography (reprinted from Forbes) – THE GREEN MOVEMENT’S PEOPLE PROBLEM, by Joel Kotkin

The movement needs to break with the deep-seated misanthropy that dominates green politics and has brought it to this woeful state. Its leaders have defined our species as everything from a “cancer” to the “AIDs of the [...]

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You know how people get about cricket…

The Corner – Mark Steyn: Come Fry with Me

In order to save the planet from global roasting, it seems entirely reasonable to ask Mr. and Mrs. Joe Peasant to subordinate their freedom of movement to an annual “carbon allowance” preventing them flying hither and yon and devastating [...]

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As usual.

PJM – The Long March From California to Copenhagen

[W]e have the highest gasoline taxes, highest income taxes, highest sales taxes and collect enormous amounts of revenue to pay the highest-compensated and most numerous state employees in the nation to allot these revenues for others. We have the largest number of illegal aliens, [...]

Categories: Politics

Ah, where to begin…

NRO – Climate Hypocrites<br/> Island nations underwater, and offsetting princes. By Mark Steyn

Reuters, for example, carried a moving account of the speech by Ian Fry, lead negotiator for Tuvalu, the beleaguered Pacific island nation soon to be underwater because of a planet-devastating combination of your SUV and unsustainable bovine flatulence from [...]

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