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By cgfi on March 09th, 2010

LOSING JOBS WITH GREEN TECHNOLOGY, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

President Obama has allocated $4 billion in “stimulus funds” to help advance the “smart grid,” which is intended to seamlessly integrate all our new solar and wind power into the national supply of electricity. Much of the $4 billion will be spent to install 20 million new digital “smart meters.” These meters will instantly tell the power company how to deploy its varied generating sources most effectively.

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By cgfi on March 01st, 2010

U.S. TEMPERATURES: ADJUSTED OR MASSAGED?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—My neighbor, physicist Edward Long, is afraid our temperature records have been falsified to support the man-made global warming scare. e;He’s afraid HDr. Long recently chose two sets of U.S. meteorological stations from the master list offered by the National Climate Data Center. One data set was rural, one urban. Each had a site [...]

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By cgfi on February 22nd, 2010

ANOTHER FAILING BIOFUEL “MIRACLE”, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—My wife is complaining about our increased costs at the supermarket. I remind her that every pound of meat, milk, and butter we buy requires several pounds of corn to produce—and biofuel mandates have shoved the corn price up from about $ 2 per bushel to $3.60. Many hog producers, dairymen, and egg farms [...]

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By cgfi on February 16th, 2010

IPCC SCIENCE SCANDALS AREN’T NEW, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—The UN’s climate change panel is reeling from a series of scandals about unsupported claims in its 2007 report.
 

India has documented that the Intergovernmental Panel’s claim of Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035 was mere speculation—and has now been proven false.

 

The 2007 IPCC report claimed global warming could cut rain fed African food [...]

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By cgfi on February 01st, 2010

A CHILL HITS WIND POWER, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—As I write, a strong wind is blowing across the Alleghany Mountains onto my house. It’s bringing an “Arctic Clipper” that will drop my temperatures this weekend to a frigid and unusual 6 degrees F. Why can’t I get some good from this chill wind—with a wind turbine to harvest the “free” energy?
 
Out in [...]

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By cgfi on November 03rd, 2009

WHAT’S THE REAL COST OF GLOBAL WARMING TAXES?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—The leftish Brookings Institution and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce basically agree that the energy taxes in the House Waxman-Markey bill could total $9 trillion over ten years. As an economist, I look at these forecasts and wonder “How can we possibly know?”  
  
These estimates cover only the costs of the “user permits” [...]

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By cgfi on June 29th, 2009

ECO-MINISTER FLUNKS GLOBAL WARMING TEST, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—When last we heard from Australian Senator Steve Fielding, he had paid his own way to a Washington, D.C. conference of climate skeptics—and armed himself with some questions about why Australia needs heavy carbon taxes on its energy use.
 
Back home, Fielding asked these three questions of Australian Environmental Minister Environmental Penny Wong:
 
First: Is it [...]

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By cgfi on November 17th, 2008

SLUMPING CARBON PRICE WORRIES GREENS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—The price of carbon has slumped in Europe’s emission trading—for the second time in two years. The long-term investments needed to reduce humanity’s greenhouse emissions are being discouraged. The carbon price is meant to offset the economic cost of shifting from coal, gas, and oil to non-fossil energy.  If the carbon price is too [...]

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By cgfi on November 05th, 2008

CHINA SENDS GLOBAL WARMING RANSOM NOTE, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—China has now destroyed Western hopes for a new global warming agreement, just weeks before global talks in Poland aimed at writing a successor for the Kyoto Protocol— which expires in 2012. China has attached a ransom not to its Polish meeting RSVP: They might go along with a new warming pact if the [...]

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