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Burt Rutan on Schooling the Rogues | Watts Up With That?

Do the study yourself. Look at how and why the data are manipulated, cherry-picked and promoted. I will bet if you did, you too would be shocked. The mark of a good theory is its ability to be falsified by new data.

Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again) | Mail Online

‘Nature is about to carry out a very interesting experiment,’ he said. ‘Ten or 15 years from now, we will be able to determine much better whether the warming of the late 20th Century really was caused by man-made CO2, or by natural variability.’

Ener1, Parent of Obama-Backed Green Company, Files for Bankruptcy - ABC News

Another one bites the dust.  That is two in one week.    

Electric-Car Firm That Got Biden Visit, $118M in Stimulus, Files for Bankruptcy | CNSnews.com

(CNSNews.com) - Ener1--a company that manufactures batteries for electric cars, and that received $118.5 million in federal stimulus money, and that Vice President Joe Biden visited last year the day after President Obama’s State of the Union Address—announced today …

Daily Kos: SOPA, and the idiocy of Democrats (subtitle, somewhere pigs are flying, Daily Kos supports Republican reconsideration on SOPA)

The Daily Kos, highlighting their agreement with Republicans. Now pigs may very well fly...... Remember this in November...... The dems have been whores to Hollowood for quite some time, glad to see that the Daily Kos is picking up on it.  

Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke | Magazine

Thorium is part of our energy future, that is until we get fusion.    

Michigan Politicians Divided on How to Spend Budget Surplus - Yahoo! News

Well it looks like Michigan, with a republican majority has balanced a state budget. Of course the first thing that happens is that the democrats scream that the surplus be spent!  

One step closer to controlling nuclear fusion

Using a heating system, physicists have succeeded for the first time in preventing the development of instabilities in an efficient alternative way relevant to a future nuclear fusion reactor. It’s an important step forward in the effort to build the future ITER reactor.

Obama solicitor general: If you don't like mandate, earn less money | Philip Klein | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner

President Obama's solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn't like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://wa …

Postenvironmentalism and Technological Abundance - Reason Magazine

A review of Love Your Monsters, a collection of essays on a new kind of environmentalism. Interesting!

Fish and Wildlife Service Permit Would Allow Wind-Energy Company to Kill Golden Eagles - Yahoo! News

* A 2005 Forest Service report estimated that 28,000 birds are killed by wind turbines every year while a 2009 report by a Fish and Wildlife research puts the number at 440,000 annual bird deaths due to the turbines.

Why The Electric Vehicle House Of Cards Must Fall - Seeking Alpha

A few days ago Alex Planes published an extraordinary article on The Motley Fool entitled "Real Costs of Alternative Energy", which summarized direct US subsidies for our principal energy sources, restated annual energy consumption from each of those sources using equivalent ba …

Over 250 noteworthy Climategate 2.0 emails | Watts Up With That?

One of my favorite emails. 2009 ClimateGate email from Anthony Footitt of UEA: "I do hope all these emails are just staying within UEA because it really makes us (UEA as a whole) look like a bunch of amateurs" Email 4153

Georgia ethanol plant sold, at taxpayers' loss  | ajc.com

Another one bites the dust.

Obama: "I Have An Obligation As President To Do What I Can Without" Congress | RealClearPolitics

President Washington is rolling in his grave right now. Not with so much at stake, not at this make-or-break moment for middle-class Americans. We’re not going to let that happen. (Applause.)

GM deal moves electric car development to China -- a 'shakedown'?

The deal came as the Chinese government is pushing foreign automakers to give Chinese companies EV technology they lack, according to an Associated Press report. U.S. lawmakers have complained that China is "shaking down" GM to get Volt secrets.

MF Global assets sold to Goldman pre-collapse | Stuff.co.nz

JPMorgan has fought aggressively in bankruptcy court to protect its interests, and received a lien on some of MF Global's assets in exchange for granting the firm US$8 million to fund its bankruptcy costs.

Drought Led to Demise of Ancient City of Angkor - Yahoo! News

Suggested causes for the fall of the Khmer Empire in the late 14th to early 15th centuries have included war and land overexploitation.

Debunking Elizabeth Warren, (D-Occupy) « The Enterprise Blog

And the story of the past decade is one of a) slow economic growth and b) devastating crony capitalism in the housing and financial sectors. Too much government, too little entrepreneurial capitalism.

US, Asia, EU Business News: Flash Crash Threatens to Return With a Vengeance - CNBC

Since then, they have continued their research, with sobering conclusions.

The Fall of the U.S.S.R. Twenty Years Ago: Beauty Killed the Beast - Forbes

Wow. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

The 7 most illuminating economic charts of 2011 « The Enterprise Blog

1. The overly optimistic unemployment forecast of the Obama White House. This may be the most infamous economic prediction in U.S. political history (helpfully updated by The Right Sphere).

Iain Murray and James C. Bennett: Britain's Future Lies With America, Not Europe - WSJ.com

Up to now, however, the U.S. has pursued a policy of propping up the euro while discouraging British independence from Brussels. This is incredibly short-sighted.

MF Global chief missing $1.2B is financial adviser to EPA - Washington Times

During two days of recent congressional hearings into how as much as $1.2 billion disappeared fromMF Global customer accounts, the chief operating officer of the imploding investment firm responded again and again that he did not know. Yet as the House and  …

EDITORIAL: The dirty politics of clean energy - Washington Times

What the experts didn’t know was that the deck already was stacked.

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