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Sep 7, 2010
Icecap Alarmism Halved
Untitled document 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 )
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Sep 7, 2010
Fatal Copper Theft Attempt
Untitled document Suspected Thief Electrocuted
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Aug 13, 2010
Answer: Consumers
Untitled document 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.
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Aug 10, 2010
Fair and balanced? We'll see.
Untitled document 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.) 
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Jul 28, 2010
When Science gets bossy
Untitled document "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.” "
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Jul 26, 2010
Warming alarmism dead?
Untitled document ". . . 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

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Jul 22, 2010
Cap'n Tax is Dead
Untitled document For now. Will it be ba-a-a-a-aahck?
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Jul 12, 2010
Climategate Reviews Reviewed
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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."

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Jul 9, 2010
Climategate Report Stories (2)
Untitled document Vindication or Whitewash? Don't rely on the headlines. Read the full stories before you decide.
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Jul 8, 2010
Down with Doom
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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.

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Jul 6, 2010
Climategate and the Climate Wars
Untitled document 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.
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Jun 25, 2010
Climate Panel gets new faces
Untitled document 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.
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May 21, 2010
Green in Spain = "Disaster"
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"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."

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May 13, 2010
Cash for Caulkers
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Home Star bill moves through US House

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May 10, 2010
The China Rules on GW
Untitled document "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. "
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We sponsor a variety of continuing and special contests.

  • Recipe - you submit your best recipe in the category specified each month. If it wins, you get $30, second swings $20 and third-place picks up $10. Visit Rural Montana magazine, either the print version or the electronic version on this site for recipe categories, which we announce one to two months in advance. Pay attention to the deadlines, please.
  • Young Montanans - kids submit art and poetry. Sometimes we have a theme, but we look at everything. If yours gets published, we pay $10 and provide complimentary copies to show off to grandma and grandpa.
  • Special features - right now we're paying $10 for brief tales, "Electrifying Tales," in fact, in which the reader shares stories about when the lights came on in parts of rural Montana. This feature has been extremely helpful to us in using the experiences of older folks to help us teach younger folks the importance of electric cooperatives serving areas that profit-oriented utilities had earlier refused to touch. The grand prize winner in this category will receive the hardcover book, The Next Greatest Thing.
  • Reader Photo - we pay $10 for reader photographs that we publish on our special department page. Sometimes we specify a theme, but we look at all the pictures you submit. See the magazine to get a sense of the images that appeal to us for sharing all across Montana.
  • Reader Cover Photo - we pay $100 for a reader photo that appears on the cover of our magazine. It's a continuing contest, but one that requires exceptional photography. It must be a high-resolution digital picture - your print will not stand up to enlargement. Best to submit something in vertical (portrait) format because cropping will reduce the resolution. Shooting a high-resolution horizontal (landscape) picture and cropping to a vertical segment of that picture probably will not work, again, because of resolution. Try to think two months ahead of seasons and holidays, so that you are sending us autumn colors, for example, in July and August for our October and November issues. We like strong, simple and dramatic for our reader covers. Again, see the magazine and review the archives for past reader covers.