Aletho News | February 25, 2010

Obama’s provision of $54 billion in loan guarantees to the nuclear industry will cost Americans much more than the probable 50% default rate that the Congressional Budget Office anticipates. While the federal government will guarantee the profits of investors, rate payers will suffer the inevitable rate hikes.
Higher electric rates will [...]

“The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration show…. 2009 was the second warmest year since 1880, when modern temperature measurement began. The warmest year was 2005. The other hottest recorded years have all occurred since 1998, NASA said.”
Global temperatures [...]

by Mitchel Cohen

Two decades ago, the garbage barge, the Khian Sea, with no place in the U.S. willing to accept its garbage, left the territorial waters of the United States and began circling the oceans in search of a country willing to accept its cargo: 14,000 tons of toxic incinerator ash. First it went to [...]

Aletho News | January 5, 2010
The future of biodiesel fuel looks highly uncertain as federal tax credits that provided refiners $1 for every gallon produced expire with the new year. While many fleet vehicles have been manufactured to use the fuel, few will continue to do so since they are convertible to traditional fuel.
The National [...]

Aletho News | December 26, 2009
The promotional material from Big Green Energy, aka Biomass Gas & Electric, presents biomass as “clean, renewable energy”, sustainable and green. The US Department of Energy uses the terms “clean and renewable” when introducing visitors at its website to the topic.
But is it accurate to describe the repeated removal of [...]

Once again, the representatives of the “free” market have sought to defy the laws of nature. This time, the venue was Copenhagen, Denmark, and the “free” marketeers think they have prevailed, but this is only round one. In the end, the laws of nature will dominate, one way or another.
Both the directly corporate-controlled as well [...]

Aletho News – December 11, 2009

“Wood is very quickly becoming a very important part of the energy mix and in a few years will be a global commodity much like oil” Heinrich Unland, CEO at Novus Energy GmbH. (photo – Bloomberg)
The proposed construction of a new generation of nuclear plants is just one aspect of [...]

As the left ignores the evidence of criminal destruction of data that was the subject of Freedom of Information requests, the right has had an open field to frame the agenda behind the climate fearmongering as an issue of big government tax scheming. In reality, tax hikes are the least likely motive behind the crimes.

Aletho News
December 4, 2009

By now we know that Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory has been built on a mixture of hype and massaged data. Various carbon tax schemes have been put forward, even unprecedented proposals for a world wide taxation authority to be overseen by the UN. Does it follow that the primary agenda behind the fraud was implementing these new taxes, or were these proposed tax schemes secondary and part of a proclivity on the part of the state to seize any opportunity to enhance revenue?

In the three decades since AGW was made into a political tool by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party, tax laws have been “reformed” many times

By Saul Landau
From my window in Alameda overlooking San Francisco Bay, I watch hundreds of men and women in white suits, some with masks, busily uprooting slimy sea plants and gently grabbing birds with feathers coated in black grease. Abutting the public beach, this “bird preserve” became a disaster for the very creatures it was [...]

Change is coming, it is in the papers daily.  Yesterday I saw an ad that took up an entire page.  It showed two pictures of the Himalayas.  One was taken at the turn of the twentieth century and the other was fairly recent.  It showed how almost all the ice is gone.  That ice supplies [...]