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I can find no definition of "green energy" anywhere, but then, expressions used in toothpaste commercials do not necessarily get into the dictionary. Let us see what we can do to clarify things a bit.

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Lawrence Solomon and Amory Lovins may delay future developments by a few years, but they cannot escape the fact that 1 kilogram of uranium yields roughly 50,000 kiloWatt.hours of electrical energy in present-day thermal reactors or 3 million kiloWatt.hours in fast breeder reactors. Both technologies are fully established, though the breeder is in abeyance at present because thermal is cheaper and uranium is abundantly available at low price. Continue reading →

In the torrent of gossip and nonsense that besets the climate change issue, sea level is one of the issues that has "gone off the rails", so it will presumably be of some value for it to be put in perspective. Nautical charts show sea level as "HWOST" – high water, ordinary spring tides. The "O" is a give-away; in most coastal areas, tides are almost never ordinary. In England, Holland and Belgium in 1953, there was a real catastrophe – not the scaremonger kind. Continue reading →

Recent meteorological evidence shows that temperatures over the past two months were far below average in parts of Canada. According to blogger Joseph D’Aleo, “parts of central Canada (Churchill, Manitoba) are running 16 degrees F below normal for the month through the 26th (map ends 24th).”

Don’t talk to the residents in Churchill about global warming—every day this month they’ve had to deal with below freezing temperatures. Worse still, in only 6 out of the first 26 days were they blessed with temperatures above freezing.

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The atmosphere at the recent World Business Summit climate conference in Copenhagen, was, indeed, quite hot. According to a story in the local paper, Politiken, the city’s sex trade business was booming throughout the conference.

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The debate surrounding global warming is, truly, heating up. Former Colorado State Climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke has responded to Stanford University professor Stephen Schneider’s recent claim that he could he could "slaughter" skeptical scientists in a global warming debate.
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Israel’s back is against the wall. To the south it faces Iran-backed Gaza, a terrorist state dedicated to Israel’s destruction. To the north lies Iran-backed Lebanese territory, equally bent on Israel’s destruction. About 1000 kilometres to the east lies Iran, itself, which will soon have a nuclear bomb and the delivery system needed to detonate it 600 metres above Tel Aviv – the height at which an exploding nuclear bomb best incinerates a populace.

And, for the first time in a generation, Israel is no longer confident that it has a reliable ally in the U.S.

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According to scientists at the IARC-JAXA International Arctic Research Center in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (IARC-JAXA) the arctic sea ice extent for May 1st is at its highest level in more than six years.

For those readers who don’t know what the arctic sea ice extent is (and really, who would), it’s the area of sea ice covering the ocean where sea-ice concentration (SIC) exceeds 15%. More simply, sea ice extent is frozen ocean water.

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Global warming may save more lives than it costs, its effect on climate-sensitive diseases in the U.S. may be minimal, and global warming science itself is uncertain.
This assessment appears in an internal White House memo entitled "Deliberative-Attorney Client Privilege," which was compiled from the opinions of 12 federal agencies and departments that had concerns with a proposed EPA finding in April that greenhouse gases pose dangers to public health and welfare. 

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