New study shows icecap loss estimates are wrong by a factor of two. (If you see this story in your daily newspaper, please give a heads up to rural@mtco-ops.com )

Suspected Thief Electrocuted

Question: Who pays the price for government enforced switch to green energy, usually couched in terms like 20 percent of 1990 levels by 2020? Japanese, Spanish and the Germans know the answer.

Temps below average in Southern Cal (You've been reading news about the hottest summer on the planet in the planet's history. Which may well be true. But have you seen this story in your newspaper? If so, let us know which paper in Montana portrayed it. E-mail rural@mtco-ops.com And thanks for revealing the balanced coverage in the press.) 

"If science wants to redeem itself and regain its place with the public’s affection, scientists need to come out every time some politician says, “The science says we must…” and reply, “Science only tells us what is. It does not, and can never tell us what we should or must do.” "

". . . the investigations will be among the final nails in the coffin for the global warming alarmist movement . . .

Most likely, this was the tipping point. Global warming zealots have lost. It's only a matter of time until they realize it and move on to a new contrived catastrophe, where doubtless they'll be warmly received by a compliant press and amply rewarded with more tax-subsidized grants. It seems there are insatiable appetites and never-ending tax dollars for the proper causes." --Orange County Register

For now. Will it be ba-a-a-a-aahck?

Any doubt why two universities cleared its Climategate scientists? "Readers of both earlier reports need to know that both institutions receive tens of millions in federal global warming research funding."

Wonder why thenews is all alarmist? "Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama, Huntsville, has noted that it's becoming nearly impossible to publish anything on global warming that's nonalarmist in peer-reviewed journals." Because of pressure unveiled in the Climategate emails.

Curious as to why the latest panel exonerated the CRU scientists? "That's because they only interviewed CRU people, not the people whom they had trashed."

Vindication or Whitewash? Don't rely on the headlines. Read the full stories before you decide.

From the unlikeliest of sources: "On what principle is it that, when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us."

Just saying is all.

Climategate a "Game Changer." Critics say the emails reveal evasion of freedom of information law, secret deals done during the writing of reports for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a cover-up of uncertainties in key research findings and the misuse of scientific peer review to silence critics.

Concerns with the IPCC reports have "far less to do with the individuals involved than a deeply flawed process." Flaws include reports of Himalayan glacier melts based on wild claims rather than science.

"Spain admits that the green energy as sold to Obama is a disaster"

That headline is from a Spanish newspaper, folks, not Fox News, not the editor of RM. Report: "admits the ominous economic consequences of betting in favor of renewable energies"

Excerpt:

"The owners of solar plants make 12 times more than what they pay for the energy coming from fossil fuel combustion. The majority are subsidies charged to the consumer.

The conclusion is that with the economy at the point of bankruptcy, it is not possible to keep injecting money in such a costly sector. And the government seems to realize this now."

Home Star bill moves through US House

"Even as China has set ambitious goals for itself in clean-energy production and reduction of global warming gases, the country’s surging demand for power from oil and coal has led to the largest six-month increase in the tonnage of human generated greenhouse gases ever by a single country. "