Energy Efficiency

When he tired of arguing with climate change skeptics, one programmer wrote a chatbot to do it for him. Would you argue climate science with this fellow? Nigel Leck, a software developer by day, was tired of arguing with anti-science crackpots on Twitter. So, like any good programmer, he wrote a script to do it [...]

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Misanthropy: Hatred or mistrust of humankind. Man-made global warming theory [AGW] says that climate change is caused by the CO2 emissions from the use of fossil fuels. As the human population increases the inexorable need for energy from fossil fuels increases and therefore the level of AGW increases. AGW is similar to the theory of Thomas [...]

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The best Australia can hope for from either mainstream political party on the subject of climate change and clean energy is that they don’t really mean what they say. Both the ALP and the Coalition have brought policies that most independent analysis suggests will fail to reach the presumed bipartisan target of a 5 per [...]

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has promised standards that would ban the building of new “dirty” power stations, but her policy would not cover up to 12 coal-fired plants already proposed across the country and with standards no better than those already operating in China and far short of the British commitment to ban all power [...]

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The no-not-so new Prime Minister has suggested placing a price on carbon as one of the goals of her government, but will re-labeling the ETS be more window dressing; one must woner who the new puppeteers are if Tanner is on the way out as well; and much as I hate to put shit on [...]

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