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POPSOctober Surprise ~ 14 Inches Of Snow Fell At High Point State Park
To continue passing legislation to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) or other “greenhouse gases” isn’t just stupid, it is lethal. What people are going to need more of is the energy to heat their homes and workplaces. Thwarting the building of more coal-fired or nuclear plants to generate electricity is suicidal. That is, however, exactly what Congress intends to do and we can anticipate blizzard of legislation, instituting “cap-and-trade” requirements, increases in ethanol requirements, and a host of other poisonous legislation that will severely handicap any recovery from the current financial crisis and inflict a host of allegedly “unintended” consequences. One of those consequences were the food riots that occurred earlier this year around the world when the price of corn rose in response to U.S. mandates that ethanol be used along with gasoline. Proposed increases in such ethanol use will require engineering changes in new automobiles . . . .
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POPSThirty years of warmer temperatures go poof For nearly 30 years, Professor Christy has been in charge of NASA's eight weather satellites that take more than 300,000 temperature readings daily around the globe. In a paper co-written with Dr. Douglass, he concludes that while manmade emissions may be having a slight impact, "variations in global temperatures since 1978 ... cannot be attributed to carbon dioxide." Moreover, while the chart below was not produced by Douglass and Christy, it was produced using their data and it clearly shows that in the past four years -- the period corresponding to reduced solar activity -- all of the rise in global temperatures since 1979 has disappeared.
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POPSTH!NK Ox – A Fully Electric Car Think, with more than 17 years of experience in developing and producing electric vehicles is launching one of its models 'The Ox' in North America. The cars will start selling in the US next year but the actual mass roll out is slated for sometime in 2011,
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POPSVaTech, D.O.E, Russians, collaborators study rare microorganism that produces hydrogen So we finally found a clean energy solution ? guess not - no2liberals writes "I’m all for new sources of energy, but one has to look at the downside. The only emission from hydrogen as a fuel is water vapor, which happens to be the single greatest greenhouse gas. Do we really want vehicles and power plants spewing more of the gas that traps 80% of all radiant heat within the first thirty feet of atmosphere?"
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POPSLook To Mars For The Truth On Global Warming lasting some 50 years, after which temperatures will go up again. Because of the scientific significance of this period of global cooling that we're about to enter, the Russian and Ukrainian space agencies, under Dr. Abdussamatov's leadership, have launched a joint project to determine the time and extent of the global cooling at mid-century. The project will marshal the resources of spacecraft manufacturer Energia, several Russian research and production centers, and the main observatory of Ukraine's Academy of Sciences. By late next year, scientific equipment will have been installed in a space-station module and by early 2009, the space team will be conducting a regular survey of the sun. With the data, the project will help mankind cope with a century of falling temperatures, during which we will enter a mini ice age. "A global freeze will come about regardless of whether or not industrialized countries put a cap on their greenhouse- gas emissions."
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POPSNo Traffic? Michigan to Build Interstate Traveler Hydrogen Super Highway Michigan to build the country's first Maglev public transportation system: to be constructed between Detroit and Ann Arbor. Interstate Traveler Hydrogen cars will carry people, cars (drive on/off) and cargo. Construction is set to begin this year (2008). Interstate Traveler Hydrogen Super Highway? It is a collection of vital municipal utilities bundled into a Conduit Cluster: a public transit network built along the right of way of the US Interstate Highway Systems, and any other permissible right of way where such a machine would be of benefit. It will be a integration of solar powered hydrogen production and distribution with a high speed magnetic levitation ( MagLev ). A Maglev, or magnetically levitating, train is a form of transportation that suspends, guides and propels vehicles (predominantly trains) using electromagnetic force. The first commercial Maglev was opened in 1984 in Birmingham, England.
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POPSEPA Could Make Things WORSE, Without Congress Ever Voting On It! WE MUST STOP THEM::Radical left-wing environmentalists have been trying for YEARS to get the "Kyoto Treaty" passed, which would cause massive job losses and skyrocketing consumer prices in the U.S. Now, thanks to a possible action by the Environmental Protection Agency, they might not HAVE to pass that treaty -- the EPA could make things even WORSE! Here's the deal: the EPA may soon issue a finding under Section 202 of the Clean Air Act that carbon dioxide emissions "endanger public health and welfare" and, as a consequence, develop new CO2 emission standards for automobiles. In so doing, the EPA would trigger regulation of CO2 under other provisions of the Clean Air Act -- with dire consequences.
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POPSREALITY CHECK! There is a frightening new global trend of denial... Europeans think that they don't need to limit fishing... Car companies don't think they need to improve fuel economy standards... Bush thinks he can increase spending and cut taxes at the same time... Jingoists think we are winning the war in Iraq... Democrats think Hillary Clinton has enough experience to win an election... Polluters think that Global Warming won't really happen... Evangelicals think Jesus is coming back soon... Fundamentalists think they can win the war against modernity... The truth is: we're stuck with this world. The rules DO apply. No free passes. You have to face the music sometime. We must choose realism over comfortable delusion. Unfortunately, for now, wistful thinking will rule the day until we let it all collapse around us. Then we'll stand there scratching our heads saying: How could this happen?
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POPSFeds Must Be Stopped Where in the Constitution does the EPA have the power to do this? I would be happy to have someone explain it to me. If auto makers won't, or can't, meet the more stringent state guidelines, then they just won't sell cars in those states. One of two things will happen. Either the citizens of those states will not be able to handle not being able to purchase new vehicles, and change their laws appropriately; or the auto makers will say, "Crap! We lose too much money not having those markets. We better get serious and exceed the federal regs by complying w/ the tightest state regulation so everyone's happy." Am I being unreasonable?
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POPSJucy Rentals Gets Greener With Its Dirty Getaway Jucy Rentals, leading New Zealand car rental and campervan company is leading the way in reducing carbon emissions and conservation of energy and water by offering car rentals that are spotless on the inside but have slight dust or dirt on the vehicle exterior. Jucy Rentals is doing its bit for the preservation of the pristine New Zealand environment and making New Zealand tourism sustainable.
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POPS'The biggest environmental crime in history' The headline is not an exaggeration. see also ... http://clipmarks.com/clipper/JICWyllie/search/tar+sands/ and http://clipmarks.com/clipper/JICWyllie/search/tar+sands/ and http://clipmarks.com/clipper/JICWyllie/search/tar+sands/
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