Daily Archives: April 23, 2013

Solar Industry Is Pretty Much Workfare

April 23, 2013 – 3:16 pm

As Steven Milloy points out Grist reports that solar workers now outnumber coal miners. Coal provided 42% of U.S. electricty needs in 2011. Solar provided 0.2% of global electricity needs in 2011. You do the math. The math says that coal provides 210 times more power with fewer employees. The math also says that the […]

By William Teach Posted in Energy 2 Comments

If All You See…

April 23, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle sitting in a field perfect for a wind farm, you might just be a Warmist The blog of the day is Scared Monkeys, with a post showing the latest anti-gun fervor from Diane Feinstein.

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John Kerry: Hotcoldwetdry Science Is “Screaming At Us”

April 23, 2013 – 11:07 am

Though I reckon it’s screaming “you’re a moron and a hypocrite. We’ve seen a .08C (.14F) increase in global temperature from 1997 and .16C (.28F) increase since 1990. Oh, and you take lots of fossil fueled flights, own multiple high “carbon footprint” homes, and won lots of fossil fueled vehicles. The science is screaming that […]

By William Teach Posted in AGW Idiocy, Collapsing Science, Global Warming, Kerry 2 Comments

Support For Gun Control Slips Further

April 23, 2013 – 9:27 am

As the USA Today reports, this is supposedly partly due to the emotional slippage of time, as we move further and further away from actions of Adam Lanza. We can also presuppose that Americans realize that the laws offered (and in some cases, passed) will do little to nothing to stop the perpetrators. And that […]

By William Teach Posted in 2nd Amendment, Current Affairs 30 Comments

Mother Jones Offers 11 Mystifying Things The Boston Bombers Did

April 23, 2013 – 9:08 am

This makes me wonder: are they wondering how bat guano Islamist jihadis could do crazy things, or are they going conspiracy theory (Mother Jones) Dzhokhar and Tamerlan’s motive—or motives—is still unclear (um, no: they were motivated by “religious fervor“, ie, the Religion of Peace.) But that’s not the only unknown. Many of the Tsarnaevs’ actions […]

By William Teach Posted in Current Affairs, RoP 6 Comments
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