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New York is in imminent jeopardy of inundation due to global warming induced sea level rise!5/29/2016 2015 Updated NOAA Tide Gauge Data Shows No Coastal Sea Level Rise Acceleration
Oops! Well, if imminent means, over the next 20,000 years. More below! Green Weenie of the Week: The Portland School Board
This is the least surprising thing Maddog has seen in a coons age. More below the fold! Pizzly or grolar bear: grizzly-polar hybrid is a new result of climate change
Oliver Milman is comically breathless over at the Guardian, because . . . EVOLUTION . . . Or something. More below the fold. How Carbon Farming Can Help Save the Planet
. . . for the pathetic tinpot religion of global warming, and Socialism. Dining Out on Empty Virtue
. . . and picks the scab off of an ugly aspect of human nature. Much more below the fold! Do We Know How to Smartly Spend Climate Cash?
. . . but we do. After all Bjorn Lomborg assembled a team of 50 top economists called the Copenhagen Consensus to determine where $75 billion would do the most good. How to Spend $75 Billion to Fix the World It wasn't wind farms, or electric cars, or any of the other silly progressive fantasies. Please read the article, then go and buy the book. Really, put a few dollars in Lomborg's pocket, he is doing yeoman's work changing how we think about, and understand climate change, and resources. How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place Paperback – March 1, 2014 by Bjorn Lomborg Once you are finished with that book, go buy, and read all of Lomborg's books. They are available at Amazon. Just click his name at the link above and it will take you to a full listing of all his writings. On the other hand, environmentalists would shunt money to electric cars which are only affordable by the uber wealthy, likely increasing the rebate so millionaires can drive in style without giving their accountants heart attacks. Or shunt money to firms like Solyndra, or SunEdison. Yes. Solyndra is bankrupt and defunct, SunEdison is in the process. These people simply have no idea how to spend this money, and will likely spend it either politically, or lavishly on projects they, or their friends will make money from. Stick advice from someone like Lomborg. Costly Broken Wind Turbines Give College Whopping Negative 99.14% Return On Investment
. . . funded by a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. Only government can find ways to create such shockingly bad investment returns. Even the Steadman Funds of yesteryear (Deadman Funds, in the parlance), never plumbed these depths in such a short period of time. "The college estimates it would take another $100,000 in repairs to make the turbines function again after one of them was struck by lightning and likely suffered electrical damage last summer. School officials’ original estimates found the turbine would save it $44,000 in electricity annually, far more than the $8,500 they actually generated. Under the original optimistic scenario, the turbines would have to last for 22.5 years just to recoup the costs, not accounting for inflation. If viewed as an investment, the turbines had a return of negative 99.14 percent. “While they have been an excellent teaching tool for students, they have only generated $8,500 in power in their lifetime,” she said. “One of the reasons for the lower than expected energy power is that the turbines often need to be repaired. They are not a good teaching tool if they are not working.'" Look Princess, they while they were not working these things were the best teaching tool ever invented. Success provides a few learning points, but abject failure of this magnitude offers myriad teaching points. Frankly, everything about this project point to the fact that college administrators are not ready to manage the people or money they are required to manage. This was not an investment, but a serious, unconscionable waste of student money. It should be pink slips all around, but . . . wait for it . . . Have the administrators learned from the experience? In a word, NO! "Lake Land plans to replace the two failed turbines with a solar power system paid for by a government grant. “[T]he photovoltaic panels are expected to save the college between $50,000 and $60,000 this year,”Allee told the DCNF." The gambler who cannot win, doubles down! Brilliant. Why limit the poppycock ROI estimates to $60,000, go for the Moon! $600,000, or $6,000,000, or maybe the ROI will be infinite! Religion always trumps reason, and here the students pay, not the administrators, so there is no reason to treat this as anything other than a lark. and Theocracy In 21st-century USA - Cafe Hayek
. . . but we all should, environmentalism, and progressivism are becoming a metastasizing evil religion, which can only end in something ugly, and deadly. Read more below the fold! |
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