Imagine how dishonest the average climate scientist is. Then realize that half of them are even more dishonest than that.
Imagine how stupid you are and then imagine the other idiot deniers just as stupid. There is zero evidence of any climate scientist within the 97% being dishonest. Now the less than three percent paid-for whores that continue to deny it......that's where you'll find dishonesty.
If the world is 1.4 degrees warmer on average how come it was so cold today? It was 27 degrees. How come it wasn't 28.4?
NRG, which built a leading electricity business from coal and other conventional power plants, is aiming to reduce its carbon emissions 50 percent by 2030 and 90 percent by 2050, the company said on Thursday. David Crane, the company’s chief executive, made the announcement at a ceremony breaking ground for the company’s new headquarters in Princeton, N.J., conceived as a green-energy showcase that will open in 2016. “The power industry is the biggest part of the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, but it has the potential to be an even bigger part of the solution,” Mr. Crane said in an interview before the announcement. Since 2005, the company has reduced its carbon emissions 40 percent, executives say, and the new goals would use this year’s projected level of 125 million metric tons as a baseline. Few power companies have made similar commitments, although they have become common in corporate America and are part of the impetus for NRG’s move. Continue reading the main story Businesses like Coca-Cola, Google and Walmart are increasingly looking to buy or produce more green energy as a way of reducing their carbon footprints, creating a potentially lucrative market for companies like NRG. This week, for instance, Ikea announced it had bought a second wind farm in the United States, part of its goal of, by 2020, producing as much renewable energy as the company consumes globally. “We are working with these companies on putting solar panels all over their facilities, and it’s helpful for them to know that we’re heading in the right direction,” Mr. Crane said. In addition, Mr. Crane said that he was mindful of the growing pressure from younger Americans and investors to decrease dependence on fossil fuels. A report this week commissioned by Ceres, a Boston advocacy group that focuses on the economic risks of climate change, concluded that investments in large fossil fuel and nuclear plants had a higher chance of causing financial harm to utilities than investments in renewable sources, in part because of proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations for power plants and the falling costs for large-scale wind and solar installations. “If divestment from fossil fuel companies becomes the issue that preoccupies college campuses around America for the next decade,” Mr. Crane said, “I don’t relish the idea that year after year we’re going to be graduating a couple million kids from college, who are going to be American consumers for the next 60 or 70 years, that come out of college with a distaste or disdain for companies like mine.” He added that renewables were the segment of the power sector showing the greatest growth. NRG’s group of conventional power plants is among the nation’s largest, which makes it a major source of carbon dioxide emissions. Cutting their emissions by 90 percent would keep three billion metric tons of carbon out of the atmosphere, or about the amount created by providing fuel and electricity to seven million homes from now to 2050, the company said. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/b...module=Recommendation&src=recg&pgtype=article
One Of America's Best Summer Vacation Spots Is Being Destroyed Chelsea Harvey The Outer Banks is a paradise for residents and tourists alike. The string of islands, laid end to end just off the coast of North Carolina and a portion of Virginia, are beloved for their stunning beaches, picturesque towns, and pleasant weather. Many resident families have been there for generations, and visitors often return season after season to take advantage of the sun and the scenery. But the Outer Banks, like many coastal communities in the United States and around the world, is up against a dire challenge. As global temperatures continue to heat up, causing an ever-lengthening list of consequences such as sea-level rise, drought, and intense storms, the very existence of the islands may be in jeopardy.
The North Carolina barrier islands have been rolling back for tens of thousands of years. Any bit of barrier island in place 100 years ago would not be present today - if natural processes had their way. In 500AD (the time when most of coastal France was underwater) and in 1300AD (during the Medieval Warm Period), it is likely that the majority of the barrier islands were under-water. The key barrier island landmarks such as light houses and Kitty Hawk are only still present because the government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in sand replenishment projects. The continual dumping of sand by man has maintained hotels, houses, and historic landmarks on the North Carolina barrier islands that would have otherwise disappeared decades ago. The reality is that North Carolina should of never allowed the construction of permanent structures on the barrier islands. It has cost the state a tremendous amount of money to preserve these structures via sand replenishment - that has not necessarily been re-paid in tourism taxation revenue over the past decades. Historically, the families that lived on the barrier islands for generations had small houses which they moved as the barrier island moved. Structures that could not be moved easily they assumed the sea would take. You will note that any of the buildings shown in the Wright brothers Kitty Hawk photos were removable structures. It should be noted that the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources (ran by a Democrat at the time) and NC Coastal Resources Commission completely rejected the "North Carolina Sea-Level Rise Assessment Report (2010)" cited in the article. This report was created by a committee made up of climate alarmist extremists. Attempting to link the threat to the North Carolina barrier islands to "climate change" is simply absurd; the changes to the barrier islands are natural and have been going on for tens of thousands of years. In fact the above article should take the prize as the least factual post of the week - for the most part it is a complete fabrication.
The shaded areas will be under water in a hundred years. If you know anyone with these properties please have them sell them to GW deniers like GWB. That would be funny. "Here kids, here's your mudflat! Aren't you glad I was smart and ignored the scientists?" LOL.
So most of North Carolina will be under water 100 years from now? Something tells me we will think of a solution for that by then, lol.