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Are you frying your eggs at 4 a.m. yet?
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is under fire for forcing smart meters onto the province’s electricity customers.
The meters make no economic sense for consumers, critics point out, costing consumers far more than can ever be offset through lower power bills.
The meters, in fact, make perfect sense when understood from Mr. McGuinty’s viewpoint, despite a total price tag estimated to run as high as $10-billion.
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Lawrence Solomon: Are you frying your eggs at 4 a.m. yet?
(Sept. 18) Instead of retooling the technology, retool the people. Continue reading
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Lawrence Solomon: Chilling evidence
(September 17, 2010) Two years ago, William Livingston and Matthew Penn of the National Solar Observatory in Tucson, in a controversial paper that contradicted conventional wisdom and upset global warming theorists, predicted that sunspots could more or less disappear after 2015, possibly indicating the onset of another Little Ice Age. Continue reading
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Chilling evidence
Two years ago, William Livingston and Matthew Penn of the National Solar Observatory in Tucson, in a controversial paper that contradicted conventional wisdom and upset global warming theorists, predicted that sunspots could more or less disappear after 2015, possibly indicating the onset of another Little Ice Age.
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Aldyen Donnelly: Denmark’s wind problem
Unfortunately, the Danish wind industry is living up to my prior forecasts—evidence can be found most easily in the fact that here were no new turbines built in Denmark between 2006 and 2009.
In 2009 the Danish government approved applications for developers to site 1,300 MWs of capacity onshore—1/3 of which were replacement turbines, not incremental capacity. But the condition of approval was that from then on all new wind power project developers would be required to compensate affected Danish landowners for declines in their property values.
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Lawrence Solomon: Break up Pakistan
(Sept. 11, 2010) This artificial nation has already lost Bangladesh. Now floods give good reason to dismember the rest. Continue reading
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Break up Pakistan
(September 11, 2010) This artificial nation has already lost Bangladesh. Now floods give good reason to dismember the rest. Continue reading
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Have you looked at your electricity bill lately?
(Sept. 8) Residents and businesses are being caught off guard by electricity rate hikes, writes Toby Barrett in The Tillsonburg News. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Another cold Arctic summer
The summer of 2010 was unusually cold, according to the Centre for Ocean and Ice at the Danish Meteorological Institute. For almost the entirety of the June to August period, mean daily temperatures were below the corresponding daily temperatures over the past half century during which the Centre has maintained records.
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Have you looked at your electricity bill lately?
(September 8, 2010) Electricity bills are begining to send shockwaves as ratepayers discuss the latest round of price hikes. Residents and businesses alike are being caught off guard. Continue reading
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