- Sunday, November 1, 2009, 4:04
- From the Blogs
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A climate of fast money
By Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun, October 30, 2009
PSST. Want a surefire way to get a grant – maybe $300,000, or even more – for your university research?
Then gather around, my dear professors, and say these magic words.
Climate change.
You scoff? You say it’s too crazy to work, given that your expertise is actually
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- Saturday, August 15, 2009, 5:32
- From the Blogs
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Climate Money – Big Government outspends Big Oil
Via JoNova, August 12, 2009
The Exxon “Blame-Game” is a Distracting Side Show
Much media attention has relentlessly focused on the influence of “Big Oil”—but the numbers don’t add up. Exxon Mobil is still vilified1 for giving around 23 million dollars, spread over roughly ten years, to skeptics of
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- Thursday, January 29, 2009, 10:43
- Government Intervention
- 726 views
The European Union is urging the Obama Administration to join a global carbon market in an effort to raise substantial cash in a bid to fight climate change. “Rich†nations are expected to raise about $321 billion by 2020 to fight global warming, with half that money going to developing nations to combat climate change. Sounds like a global welfare system to me. ...
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- Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 12:20
- Government Intervention
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Besides the $400 million earmarked to study climate change (hasn’t it already been studied and the debate is over??), what other special items are in this pork-laden stimulus package? Revitalizing the National Mall, digital converter boxes for televisions and $1 billion for the 2010 census. Change we can believe in?
http://thecomingdepression.blogspot.com/2009/01/here-is-where-825-billion-is-going-this.html
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- Friday, January 23, 2009, 9:54
- Debate
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James Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia theory that the planet is self-regulating, says carbon trading is not going to do anything about climate change, but it will make money for a lot of people. He says that carbon sequestering methods are a “waste of time...a crazy idea - and dangerous.†He continues to say that it would take too much time and ...
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- Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 13:44
- Government Intervention
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Are you upset with the federal Wall Street bailout plan? Do you think too much money was given away? You haven’t seen anything yet. How about a slightly larger bailout each year until the year 2050? It’s expected that the total cost to fight global warming, including significant cuts in carbon dioxide output, could run into the trillions of dollars - ...
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- Monday, January 19, 2009, 22:52
- Science
- 807 views
William Happer gives an account of what it was like supervise all non-weapons energy research for the Department of Energy. He compares his briefings with the climate change scientists to all other groups and found that their attitude was just to give them a bunch of money, and they will, in turn, give him an answer that he likes. Happer said he was ...
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- Monday, January 19, 2009, 6:46
- From the Blogs
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So can I take my jet? Please?
From ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/MoneyTrail/story?id=6680531 page=1)on the stars and wealthy arriving in D.C. for the inauguration tomorrow:
For CEOs and stars arriving by private jet, local airports have shut
down entire runways to serve as parking lots for their planes.
Officials are prepared to handle hundreds of private aircraft for the
long weekend.
No doubt the CEOs and stars voted for Obama ...
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- Friday, January 16, 2009, 16:30
- Lifestyle
- 704 views
File this under “D†for duh. A study conducted for the Energy Savings Trust of Scottish drivers found that 9 out of 10 would change their driving habits if if meant saving money but only a third recognized cutting emissions as an important reason to alter their driving behavior. 54% understood that their driving habits were damaging the environment and 13 said they ...
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