Daily Archives: September 9, 2009

Market Confidence Low: Carbon Credits now worth 25 cents, were at $7 in 2008

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From Tom Nelson: Plunging prices at the Chicago Climate Exchange ABOVE: CCX CFI End of Day Summary: Offsets now selling for 25 cents each Back on September 2nd, 2006/2007 instruments were selling as low as 20 cents and held that … Continue reading →

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Forecasting the Earth’s Temperature

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Forecasting the Earth’s Temperature by David Whitehouse via Benny Peiser’s CCnet The recent spate of scientific papers that are attempting to predict what the earth’s temperature might be in the coming decades, and also explain the current global temperature standstill, … Continue reading →

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Arctic Temperatures – What Hockey Stick?

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Circling the Arctic What sudden recent warming? What Hockey Stick? I don’t see any. By Lucy Skywalker Green World Trust Click for a full sized image to click on graphs with thanks to the late John Daly and his timeless, … Continue reading →

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Oh, the tree huggers won’t like this…exploiting trees for electricity

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Electrical circuit runs entirely off power in trees From the University of Washington by Hannah Hickey hickeyh@u.washington.edu University of Washington Electrical engineers Babak Parviz and Brian Otis and undergraduate student Carlton Himes (right to left) demonstrate a circuit that runs … Continue reading →

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