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2011-09-15 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming

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Posted by Beavis 2011-09-15 10:56|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I'm not worried so much of carbon buildup in the atmosphere as I am our national wealth erode do the the trade imbalance. We give hundreds of millions each month to our current enemies. That money could stay in America while we perfect green technology.

Posted by Penguin 2011-09-15 12:34|| 2011-09-15 12:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Also, that the policy is to outsource energy sources and energy equipment production to places where environmental pollution controls are lax.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-09-15 12:57|| 2011-09-15 12:57|| Front Page Top

#3 That would be the case if the people who pushed green regulations ever disproportionately enforced it against oil importers instead of doing so against oil producers in North America.

When was the last time you saw Darryl Hannah or James Hansen protesting at a terminal for oil tankers from the Mideast? Or, for that matter, at a port where plastic stuff is unloaded from China?

the environmental movement has been promising that every round of their regulations will reduce energy imports for the last twenty to twenty five years. Every single round of them.

And during that time period, oil imports have gone from 35% of consumption to 65%, and increasing every year.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-15 13:37|| 2011-09-15 13:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Just last week or so there was a story in the NYT about a scientific issue that had previously been "settled" only to have a new discovery rock that certainty. It wasn't AGW, though, so it could be published. (It had to do with cell behavior, IIRC).

Posted by Spot 2011-09-15 14:34|| 2011-09-15 14:34|| Front Page Top

#5 When was the last time you saw the environmentalists demanding nuclear power plants be built to provide clean plentiful energy.

Nope, never happened. Won't happen. Because they aren't really concerned about solutions as much as destroying the existing energy system.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-09-15 14:48|| 2011-09-15 14:48|| Front Page Top

#6 My face resignation over AGW is still this, though. From the same organization as Mr. Giaever, oddly enough.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-09-15 20:04|| 2011-09-15 20:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Fave, not face. I'm going to have to get one of the trailing daughters to turn off the auto spell. :-(

Posted by trailing wife 2011-09-15 20:06|| 2011-09-15 20:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Only 0.8 C change in over a century? The way that people talk, and the damage associated with global warming, you would think that it was 10 degrees or more.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2011-09-15 22:37|| 2011-09-15 22:37|| Front Page Top

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