Guest Blogger: William F. Buckley on Climate Change

3 04 2007

William F. Buckley
From RealClearPolitics April 03, 2007
Business of Global Warming Feels a Lot Like Inquisition
By William F. Buckley

The heavy condemnatory breathing on the subject of global warming outdoes anything since high moments of the Inquisition. A respectable columnist (Thomas Friedman of The New York Times) opened his essay last week by writing, “Sometimes you read something about this administration that’s just so shameful it takes your breath away.”

What asphyxiated this critic was the discovery that a White House official had edited “government climate reports to play up uncertainty of a human role in global warming.” The correspondent advises that the culprit had been an oil-industry lobbyist before joining the administration, and on leaving it he took a job with Exxon Mobil.

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$10 million plus X Prize offered for a 100-MPG car

3 04 2007

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Now here’s something I can get behind.

The X Prize Foundation, which spurred innovation by offering $10 million for the first privately built spacecraft plans to offer millions for the
first practical car that increases mileage five-fold. The specs for the competition are out in draft form and call for cars in two categories that are capable of 100 MPG in tests to be run in 2009. The categories are:
4-passenger/4-wheel; and 2-passenger/unspecified wheels.

The cars must meet manufacturability requirements, and not be “science projects”. The prize is expected to top $10 million. The X Prize Foundation says that so far it has received more than 1,000 inquiries from possible competitors.

I’m hopeful Chico State will get their engineering department involved. They have a shot.


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