Warming Fact or Fiction

Study Says U.S. Winds Are Slowing

By Kate Galbraith

A new study holds potentially unwelcome news for wind power developers: wind speeds in the United States have dropped 15 to 30 percent over the course of about 30 years. And one possible cause, according to the authors, is climate change. Read more »

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As Wind Power Grows, a Push to Tear Down Dams

Hay I have a better idea WHY NOT JUST SHUT OFF THE POWER GRID, if they don’t want electricity, then we will not have to worry about any of it, OK,HAY OK, then will that make vevery one happy.

Well then that will make this the lazyest people on the earth, how about that, no power on work, if you think that there will all ways be a wind blowing you are nuts and need to be put in a loony bin.

Do you have any idea how much land that will take up, and how much land, and that includes trees witch we need to take out CO2 to produce oxigen, or don’t you care about cleaning up the air.

Can this country afford any more stupid people, we have enough in DC, we do not need ant more.

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By KATE GALBRAITH

WASCO, Ore. — For decades, most of the nation’s renewable power has come from dams, which supplied cheap electricity without requiring fossil fuels. But the federal agencies running the dams often compiled woeful track records on other environmental issues. Read more »

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Markey tries fed agency to intimidate cap-and-trade opponent

Posted on: Green Hell Blog

Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) tried to use the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to intimidate a utility executive who testified against the Waxman-Markey climate bill.

Immediately after MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company Chairman David Sokol testified against cap-and-trade on June 9, Rep. Markey sent a letter to FERC chairman Jon Wellinghoff asking for an investigation of MidAmerican. Read more »

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Crops under stress as temperatures fall

Who needs global warming… oh yeah, farmers!
Our politicians haven’t noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling,

By Christopher Booker

For the second time in little over a year, it looks as though the world may be heading for a serious food crisis, thanks to our old friend “climate change”. In many parts of the world recently the weather has not been too brilliant for farmers. After a fearsomely cold winter, June brought heavy snowfall across large parts of western Canada and the northern states of the American Midwest. In Manitoba last week, it was -4ºC. North Dakota had its first June snow for 60 years. Read more »

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