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European elites fear the contagion of revolt against climate change policies will spread

Radically altering people's behavior is a social experiment, not an economic policy. The French people are balking because the government doesn't appear to care how much disruption there will be in the lives of ordinary people. Whether French voters believe in man-made climate change is not the issue. This is an issue that hits at the wallets of the French lower and middle classes and, along with the rising cost of living, is squeezing the average Frenchman, lowering their standard of…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on December 5, 2018 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

France halting climate change fuel tax in wake of Paris riots

The protests began last month surrounding the tax on fuel and hikes on electricity and natural gas prices, which were also put on hold, but expanded to cover other concerns. The discord has sparked complaints that French President Emmanuel Macron, who was elected last year on a platform of government reform, and his administration are out of…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on December 4, 2018 at 10:00am — No Comments

Macron Is Heading for His Green Waterloo

But the main reason he deserves to lose this one — and lose horribly — is that the protests in France are an entirely self-inflicted disaster, the product of Macron’s suicidal decision to embrace the globalist cause of green lunacy just as it has begun to fall out…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on December 3, 2018 at 2:53pm — 3 Comments

Bangor, Augusta, Millinocket on pace to have coldest Novembers on record

Bangor, Augusta and Millinocket each have had their coldest recorded Novembers ever so far this month, according to federal weather data posted online by the Southeast Regional Climate Center at the University of North Carolina. Bangor has averaged just above 32 degrees Fahrenheit, Millinocket just above 29 degrees and Augusta just below 33 degrees. Records for those locations date back at least 40…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 30, 2018 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

French Revolt Over Climate Taxes

Watch protesters burn their city in response to Macron’s tariffs

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 27, 2018 at 5:00am — 1 Comment

Experts on Climate Change Assessment: ‘Every Conclusion of This Latest Government Report Is False’

“The Trump administration needs to root out the embedded leftists who are responsible for this one-sided propaganda report that is even less credible than Al Gore.”

 “The left has already politicized the science, and President Trump has every right to populate the executive branch agencies that produced this report with climate realists,” Taylor…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 26, 2018 at 5:30am — 1 Comment

A brief history of climate panic and crisis… both warming and cooling

A brief history of climate panic and crisis… both warming and cooling

For at least  120 years, climate “scientists” have been claiming that the climate was going to kill us…but they have kept switching whether it was a coming ice age, or global warming.

(A timeline of claims follows, updated to 2014)…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 25, 2018 at 6:00am — 1 Comment

Another report reluctantly admits that 'green' energy is a disastrous flop

The report confirms what should have been obvious from the start: the more “variable” wind and solar are introduced into any electricity system, the more they make it both more expensive and less reliable.

The term Variable Renewable Energy, VRE, could more accurately be described as Unreliable Renewable Energy, URE, due to the terribly obvious fact that the sun doesn’t shine at night, and sometimes not during the day either, while the wind doesn’t always blow. Thus the more…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 24, 2018 at 5:00am — No Comments

UN Environment Chief Resigns After Racking Up Huge Carbon Footprint

Mr. Solheim, referred to in the audit as “a senior manager,” had spent 79 percent of his time away from the agency’s headquarters in Nairobi and incurred $488,519 in travel expenses over a 22-month period.

According to the audit, he selected flight itineraries that passed unnecessarily through Oslo and Paris and failed to account for what he did in those cities for a total of 72 days. The audit found that the travel arrangements were “uneconomical” and contravened…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 23, 2018 at 6:00am — No Comments

Election Slaughter for Climate Activism

This month, voters throughout the country inflicted a bloodbath on climate activism and climate-activist political candidates. Voters rejected the two highest profile climate-activist ballot initiatives, severely punished Republicans who joined the congressional Climate Solutions Caucus, and sent home the Democratic climate activist most heavily supported by billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer.…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 20, 2018 at 6:00am — No Comments

Global Warming Snowed Under

Global warming is settled science, according to Barack Obama, Al Gore, and the rest of the progressive smart set in Washington, DC. Their only solution is more government – taxes, regulations, mandates – all throttling the American engine of innovation and commerce. Regardless of what we see on a daily basis, including record setting snowfalls, their assertion of catastrophic global warming is what we must…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 19, 2018 at 5:00am — No Comments

Trump challenges Warmists on California wildfires; media fight back

It was all sweetness and light yesterday when President Trump traveled to California and met with the outgoing and incoming governors of the Golden State. But already, with characteristic bluntness, President Trump had challenged the Warmist establishment that blames all misfortune in the natural world on global warming. California’s Governor Jerry Brown had already blamed purported warming for the historic wildfires currently raging, as he had for earlier wildfires during his…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 18, 2018 at 5:30am — No Comments

Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Green New Deal’ becomes flash point for Pelosi

Ocasio-Cortez is gathering support for a resolution that would establish a select House committee to develop legislation on the Green New Deal, a set of ambitious principles that progressives envision as a work-in-progress Democratic Party platform on climate change.

“I don’t want to see Miami underwater, I don’t want to see my own district underwater, and I know that Leader Pelosi doesn’t, either,”…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 16, 2018 at 9:26am — No Comments

‘We Really Muffed’ It – Scientist Admits Error in Hyped Global Warming Study

One lesson is that climate skeptics are not scientific ignoramuses. They boast a huge range of independent experts like Nic Lewis who on many occasions have proved themselves more intellectually agile and better informed on climate science than the alarmist “consensus” gatekeepers in academe and at institutions like NASA and NOAA.

Another lesson is — as has been clear since Climategate — the peer-review system for scientific papers, especially if they have anything to do with climate…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 14, 2018 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Prof Jordan Peterson: Global Warming Hype Is ‘Low-Resolution Thinking’

Are you going to stop having heat? You’re going to stop having electricity? You’re going to stop driving your cars? You’re going to stop taking trains? You’re going to stop using your iPhones? You’re not going to do any of that, and no wonder,” Peterson added.

Read the full article and watch the video at the following weblink:…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 12, 2018 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Delingpole: Wind Turbines Can Harm Heart, Says German Professor

This was the conclusion of an experiment conducted recently by a medical team in Mainz, Germany, led by Professor Christian-Friedrich Vahl.

Interviewed in Allgemeine-ZeitungVahl said that the Low Frequency Noise generated by wind turbines can weaken the…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 1, 2018 at 11:26am — No Comments

Follow the Money on Climate Caterwauling

Government funding favors research promoting the theme that man-made global warming is real, preventable, and apocalyptic. This is “federal funding induced bias,” as described by the Cato Institute.…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on October 29, 2018 at 2:30pm — No Comments

John Stossel - How Fossil Fuels Help Us

An excellent four minute video.

As one poster wrote:

"Whenever energy has become cheaper and more plentiful, even the poorest of humans live like the kings of the previous generation, and difficult problems become easy to solve. Environmentalists want to reverse that progress. They see only the potential future problems with current energy technologies, but refuse to see the potential future solutions that come from greater energy availability. We should be doing…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on October 15, 2018 at 10:33pm — No Comments

Blood on the Blades: Is Bird Life Facing Global Catastrophe from Wind Turbines?

My master’s thesis was on the mortality of birds due to powerlines and wind turbines in the special protected area of Alentejo grasslands in Portugal. The region is populated with turbines, and the great Bustards face considerable mortality from them.

Wind turbines have a special liking for raptors and can be blamed without doubt for their rapid decline in regions that host wind factories.

A 2018 specialized study on the impact of wind turbines on raptors concluded that…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on October 10, 2018 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Town Hall - The Reality of Industrial Wind Power

Arguably, there is no other energy production system that takes up as much space as wind does. As an example, the newest General Electric-built turbine will be 853 feet tall, close to the height of the Eiffel Tower, with each blade longer than a football field. As the country’s energy needs continue to grow, using wind energy to meet those requirements will call for a significantly greater amount of land than would traditional energy sources. 

In sum, it’s important, in considering…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on October 1, 2018 at 5:30am — 3 Comments

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Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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