Category Archives: Energy Probe News

Slim Pickens

Oil imports are destroying the U. S., say a rising tide of alarmists in the U. S., chief among them T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil man turned wind power developer. "It is a clear and growing threat to our national security, and our national economy," he testified to the U. S. Senate. "It has to be stopped. We are on the verge of losing our Super Power status."

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Solar radio waves could signal global cooling

(August 11, 2008) Those who view the Sun, and not CO2, as a driver of temperatures on Earth look to various measures of solar activity for explanations of climate change. or one such measure — radio waves from the Sun, or solar flux — they look to Canada’s Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in the Okanagan valley, near Penticton, British Columbia. What they find supports the view that another Little Ice Age could be coming. Continue reading

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Climate change

SIDC http://sidc.oma.be

The Solar Influences Data Analysis Center — SIDC — is the solar physics research department of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, a data analysis service of the Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical data analysis Service, and the World Data Center for the Sunspot Index.
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India rejects climate doom, pursues economic boom

(July 26, 2008) India loves the UN’s climate change policies and so does India’s representative at the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri. Continue reading

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Radioactive part was missing at Bruce plant

(July 26, 2008) A radioactive part was missing for almost two months at the Bruce nuclear plant before a worker walking through an area called “the vault” discovered the problem after his radiation detector went off. Continue reading

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You can’t have your yellowcake and hide it

(July 15, 2008) “The international trade in nuclear materials and technology is inherently and uniquely fraught with long-term hazards to world peace and security.” Continue reading

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NOW for example

May Warming warning

NOW magazine, May 15-21

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Medical firm sues AECL, Ottawa

(July 10, 2008) Life sciences company MDS Inc. has launced a $1.6 billion lawsuit against Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. and the federal government after a decision to cancel a 12-year-old project to build a new nuclear reactors for producing medical isotopes. Continue reading

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Is Wikipedia promoting global warming hysteria?

(July 9, 2008) Two weeks ago, a parent-teacher council blamed the online research source Wikipedia for falling test scores in Scotland. Continue reading

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Wikipropaganda – Spinning green

(July 8, 2008) Ever wonder how Al Gore, the United Nations, and company continue to get away with their claim of a “scientific consensus” confirming their doomsday view of global warming? Look no farther than Wikipedia for a stunning example of how the global-warming propaganda machine works. Continue reading

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