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Academics: Aliens may threaten to destroy Earth

Posted on September 19, 2011 by energyprbe

(September 18, 2011) A growing body of opinion (including Energy Probe) points to the sun as the driving force behind climate change. But one recent academic paper gives the climate change debate quite a different spin: it claims the Earth’s increasing carbon output could alert extraterrestrial intelligence to our presence, for better or worse. Columnist Robin Beres asks, if aliens were coming to judge us for fossil fuel use, wouldn’t they have passed sentence several hundred years ago for, say, coal.

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Posted in Climate Change, Coal, Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power | Tagged Al Gore, Alien Energy Shields, Climate Change, Director, Energy Probe Research Foundation, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Food, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Habibullo Abdussamatov, Lawrence Solomon | Leave a comment

Parker Gallant: The forgotten directive

Posted on September 12, 2011 by energyprbe

(September 12, 2011) Ontario’s Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) programs, designed to make Ontario a world leader in renewable energy, was implemented through two dozen or so government directives that gave well-heeled investors guaranteed sky-high returns on their investments. Most Ontarians, however, suffered in the gold rush that followed: not only did they lack the bankroll to invest; they had to indirectly finance the investors – many of them foreigners – through surcharges on their power bills.

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Posted in Power Generation in Ontario, Renewables | Tagged energy tax, FIT, Ontario Feed-in-Tariff, Ontario power, Ontario Power Generation, Ontario renewable energy, OPG, Parker Gallant, Payment in Lieu of taxes, PIL, Renewable Energy | 2 Comments

Lawrence Solomon: Just a (nuclear) waste

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Lawrence Solomon

(September 9, 2011) Canada’s nuclear industry is again plying the back routes of Ontario’s northlands, looking for a willing host in places like Hornepayne (population 1209) and Ear Falls (population 1153) for a multi-billion-dollar long-term storage facility for the country’s nuclear wastes.

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Posted in Hormesis, LNT, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste, Radiation | Tagged Hormesis, Lawrence Solomon, LNT, nuclear, nuclear reactors, nuclear waste disposal, Nuclear Waste Management Organization, NWMO, Ontario, radiation hormesis, spent fuel | Leave a comment

Dirty Business: The reality of Ontario’s rush to wind power

Posted on September 9, 2011 by energyprbe

(September 9, 2011) Dirty Business, a new book that focuses on wind power’s impacts on Ontario’s power systems and rural communities, features three Energy Probe directors (retired banker Parker Gallant, economist Michael Trebilcock and Globe columnist Margaret Wente), and a past executive director (Tom Adams).

Other works include those by Ross McKitrick and Rick Conroy.

Dirty Business, to be released Monday, September 12, is published by Wind Concerns Ontario Inc. Publications. Click here to learn more about the book and how to order a copy.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged book order information, Dirty Business: The reality of Ontario’s rush to wind power, Ontario power, Ontario Wind Power, Wind Concerns Ontario Inc. Publications, wind power, wind power books, wind power impacts, wind power issues | Leave a comment

Harvey M. Sheldon: Candidates Disappoint on Science and Climate

Posted on September 9, 2011 by energyprbe

(September 9, 2011) American Thinker – The Republican candidates failed to explain clearly to the American people why the Democrats’ stated concerns over climate change are wrong. Asked essentially to name a scientist who does not believe in man-made global warming, Rick Perry dissolved into almost a-mumble that the “theory” of man made climate change is unproven. While that is fine, its only his assertion, not evidence, and it is not a direct answer to the question posed. Jon Huntsman proved himself a gullible nitwit by adopting the so-called consensus.

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Posted in Climate Change | Tagged American Thinker, Climate Change, climate change issues, CO2, CO2 issues, Global Warming, Harvey M. Sheldon, man-made global warming | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Our cosmic climate

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Lawrence Solomon

(September 2, 2011) CERN experiment overturns global-warming orthodoxy

The 20-year-long global warming debate is in its final stages, the controversy having been settled over whether manmade causes such as carbon dioxide or natural causes such as the Sun dominate climate change on Earth.

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Posted in Climate Change, Costs, Benefits and Risks, The Deniers | Tagged carbon dioxide, CERN, Climate Change, climate change scandal, CLOUD, CO2, cosmic radiation, cosmic rays, Global Warming, global warming scandal, Kirkby, Svensmark, TAGS: Lawrence Solomon | 1 Comment

Lawrence Solomon: It’s in our interest to break Syria into pieces

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Other News Sources

(September 1, 2011) If Assad is given the boot, the West should take charge and break it up.

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Posted in Energy Probe News, International | Tagged Assad, Bashar al-Assad, Islam, Kurds, Lawrence Solomon, middle east, Middle East politics, Syria, Syria protests | Leave a comment

Windmills: If you see one of these starting to smoke…RUN!

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Other News Sources

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Posted in Renewables | Tagged burning wind turbines, Renewable Energy, renewables, wind, wind power, wind turbine images, wind turbine photos, wind turbines, windmills | Leave a comment

Parker Gallant: OPG’s creative accounting

Posted on September 1, 2011 by energyprbe

(September 1, 2011) Ontario Power Generation recently released its 2^nd Quarter results. On the surface all seems well with OPG — it announced an after tax (Payments in Lieu of taxes) profit for the quarter of $114 million for the 6 months ended June 30, 2011 versus $40 million for the comparable quarter in 2010.

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