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With Hurricane Sandy dominating the news, our favorite village idiot, Al Gore, is attempting to exploit the natural disaster as another sign of global warming. Even the Obama campaign is trying to use it against Romney. But the truth is that Hurricane Sandy is not unexpected. Joe Bastradi, chief forecaster for weatherbell.com, began sounding warnings last week. His take on Sandy is that the storm is following a definite pattern of weather cycles similar to those seen from the mid 1930s through 1950s. He warns that next year may even be worse for America′s northeastern coastline as we enter a period of large storms from Africa which could wreak havoc for the next 5 to 10 years.

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Do wind farms cause global warming? A new study published in Nature Climate Change could answer yes to that question. According to the BBC, a study of wind farms and ground temperatures in West Texas show an increase of 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit in recent years. The increase, measured by NASA satellites, has led researcher Liming Zhou to sound a warning about wind farms and their impact on the environment. The area studied saw an increase in temperature as the number of wind turbines rose from 111 in 2003 to 2325 by 2009. An earlier study published in 2010 reached the same conclusions that wind turbines appear to be mixing warmer air with cooler air, especially during the hours of night. Prof. Steven Sherwood of the Climate Change Research Centre in Australia was quoted by the BBC after he examined the data, ″The results in the paper looks pretty solid to me.″

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Michelle Duggar and overpopulation have become a hot topic. The star of TLC network′s ′19 Kids and Counting′ thinks that the idea of overpopulation is a lie. Duggar spoke on the Christian Broadcasting Network that the entire world′s population could fit inside the city limits of Jacksonville, Florida. She also agrees with Mother Teresa saying ″that there are too many children is like saying there are too many flowers.″ For those of us with allergies, there are too many flowers! But what about overpopulation? We′ve been hearing warnings on the ′population bomb′ since the early 1970s.

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A strange thing happened when we all were least expecting it. The so-called paper of record, The New York Times, actually reported some facts for a change. And even more amazingly, some of these facts make Obama out to be the anti-energy president and praise George W. Bush for having the foresight to set the groundwork for our current homegrown energy boom.

On Thursday, March 22, the Times wrote a piece about how the U.S. is slowly “inching toward energy independence” and rightly noted that much of this is due to the work of one President George W. Bush!

The piece explains how the high cost of oil has opened up new vistas in the United States that were once far too expensive to bother tapping. From fracking, to oil sands, to employing new, more difficult drilling techniques, the technology for reaching these harder to get at oil reserves — of which the US has a tremendous amount — has developed at a quicker clip due to the fact that oil is no longer extremely cheap. But there was also a helping hand from Washington D.C. during the Bush years.

As the Times properly notes:
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The boondoggle that is the wind farm power generation project sponsored by the New York Power Authority is a perfect example of why government should not be in the business of… well, should not be in any business at all. Proving that point, the recently dumped project would have cost the state nearly $2 billion in state tax money over a 20 year span just to make it “viable.”

There are some things that government should have a hand in, of course. Roads, bridges, and useful government facilities should be undertaken with government involvement. But as we’ve seen throughout the country, the second government gets involved in something like energy production, all we get is waste, red tape, and a service that does not serve the public.
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Over at The Corner, Robert Costa has a great little postette — I say postette because it is just a shorty. It is a quote from George Will from his appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday.

I kind of wish that Costa had fleshed out the Will quote, though, as there is far more to the ineffectiveness of this president. But first, the quote:
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Margaret Wente of Canada’s Globe And Mail has found out “the shocking truth about electric cars” finding that the whole idea of electric cars being “the future” is a laughable claim. The facts she relays are the sort of truths that should doom electric cars as the harbingers of greenism. After all, the true believers in the religion of green shall not be deterred.

The purpose of Wente’s column is to highlight the silly expenditure of Canada’s treasury on electric cars, but she also went on to point out the many failings of electric cars, failings that wild-eyed proponents of electric cars refuse to notice.

“The fantasy that electric cars are right around the corner doesn’t survive even the most cursory reality check,” Wente writes. “… consumers simply won’t pay a $20,000 premium for a vehicle that doesn’t go very far, isn’t very convenient, and runs out of juice as soon as you turn on the air conditioner.”

Too true.
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Al Gore has done it again! Appearing on Ustream, Gore was interviewed by Alex Bogusky (there is a good name) of the Climate Reality Project. Al Gore compared the man-made climate change debate to the civil rights movement. Quite a laugh, considering which side his daddy came down on that one. Al Gore went one step further, comparing any skeptics to man-made global warming as being the equivalent to a racist of that era. One has to wonder if Gore also feels that those opposed to poodle-love are racists, too?

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