Understanding the Global Warming Debate
…In a similar way, we need to ask ourselves what actual proposition do the 97% of climate scientists agree with. And, we need to understand what it is, exactly, that the deniers are denying.
It turns out that the propositions that are “settled” and the propositions to which some like me are skeptical are NOT the same propositions. Understanding that mismatch will help explain a lot of the climate debate.
Warren Meyer, otherwise known to these pages as Coyote.
Understanding is a high wall, for some a locked gate. Mr. Meyer does an excellent job of taking us there and giving us a better frame of mind with which to confront the “believers”.
Himalayan glaciers have lost no ice in the past 10 years, new study reveals
By itself this means nothing, What does or doesn’t happen to one spot on earth can have many explanations. What is of note, the authors of the U.N.’s climate policy guide had inaccurately forecast that the Himalayan glaciers would melt completely in 25 years, vanishing by the year 2035. And then they demanded that the world destroy it own economy.
New nuclear reactors will be first in three decades
US approves construction of two reactors designed to avoid repeat of Fukushima
Just let me say this, the only thing unsafe about Nuclear Energy is the Green Religion Movement. For the last thirty years the nuclear industry has been hiding in their holes like frightened rabbits. Afraid to put forth proposals for new plants, to re-engineer existing plants, to make any changes. When even the necessary process of re-licensing takes five times as long and is ten times as expensive as it should for facilities that have never released one rem of harmful radiation. The plans for these new reactors, that answer every weakness and have a design that corrects all the faults of the Japanese plants didn’t get written in less than a year. They have been on the shelf for decades, but the industry couldn’t bring them out until the Chinese put the orders in and started building.
Why have we allowed ourselves to be bullied by fools and idiots? Who gave them the power to control our energy future? For the billions of dollars wasted on (dead wind facility’s) 
we could have built up to five Gen III Nuclear Plants producing not the Kilowatts of wind or solar, not even Megawatts, but Gigawatts of power in a relatively small footprint. And without covering thousands of acres of desert, not including the corridors hundreds of miles long to get the power to where its needed.
Seriously? Who gave them that power, and why?
And a late entry from England…
National Trust comes out against ‘public menace’ of wind farms
But in an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Sir Simon Jenkins warned that wind was the “least efficient” form of green power, and risked blighting the British landscape.
He said “not a week goes by” without the charity having to fight plans for wind farms that threaten the more than 700 miles of coastline, 28,500 acres of countryside and more than 500 properties owned by the Trust.
“Broadly speaking the National Trust is deeply sceptical of this form of renewable energy,” he said.
This is important because in England, the National Trust has more members than any of the political parties.
On the North River 