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    Chevy reVOLTing

    It's 6-speeds, no 5-speeds. Also, roaring your engine for attention just makes you a fag.
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    Chevy reVOLTing

    Yes, I even gave a run down of my reading from the article, which I didn't find partisan at all. What parts did you find partisan?
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    Chevy reVOLTing

    I didn't see anything partisan in that article at all. Chevy had a problem with batteries that were not serviced after crash tests and an improperly installed charging station caused a fire, their engineers are looking into it, a Toyota sales rep compares the reaction to that Toyota received for...
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    Chevy reVOLTing

    Yeah, because GM was doing so well before the government got involved.
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    Former AIG CEO sues the Fed for $25 billion

    Cojones, Chutzpah, Couilles. So this is week old news now, but it's news to me. The former CEO of AIG Hank Greenberg, who now leads Starr International, the largest shareholder of AIG (before the government bailout) is suing the US Government. The lawsuit alleges that the US government acted...
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    BBC's hidden 'warmist' agenda is rapidly unravelling

    Sensational journalism. Shouldn't be surprising. Some meteorologists even published a paper about this popular meme: Here's their Figure 1: Click on the figure to go to the paper, or you can google the title of the paper: "The Myth of the 1970's Global Cooling Scientific Consensus" I guess...
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    BBC's hidden 'warmist' agenda is rapidly unravelling

    Derpy fail. I will deny it's roots are in a one world government. And I'll even give you links to the basic physics that are actually at the root of the problem. The Club of Rome was founded in 1968. Joseph Fourier first discovered what we now call the greenhouse effect, in the early 1820's...
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    Obama praises Aussie carbon tax

    BC and Alberta have both levied prices on carbon air pollution. The CD Howe Institute said there's no reason for Ottawa to drag feet in pricing carbon at the federal level.
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    Fresh oil rising from BP Deepwater Horizon site

    FIS - Worldnews - BP's reservoir continues to leak oil into Mexican Gulf: scientists The Gulf Coast is reeling from reports that fresh oil rising from BP's Macondo Reservoir – ground zero of last year's massive spill – is coming ashore, again. Scientists have confirmed the existence of a...
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    Alleged dead beat dad wins award for Family Values

    Representative Joe Walsh (R) recently announced that the Family Research Council action committee had named him a "True Blue" member of Congress for his "unwavering commitment and consistent support in defense of life and the family," this despite a suit for over $100,000 in unpaid child...
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    Mississippi set to vote on when personhood begins

    Mississippi to vote on 'personhood' : Nature News On 8 November, Mississippi voters will not only decide who should lead the state, but also indicate whether they agree with the candidates about the status of embryos. The Initiative 26 ballot measure proposes to amend the state's constitution...
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    China will not follow US path of carbon emissions

    I'm aware of all of that, what does this have to do with the price of tea in...oh wait. What does this have to do with them meeting their targets on energy policy? They've done better than Canada has, or the US. Not better than Europe though.
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    China will not follow US path of carbon emissions

    It's just a rate...on absolute emissions they're already past the US. But let's entertain the skeptics for a moment, why do Western nations deserve permanently higher rates of energy consumption in the face of such a big problem? [/FONT][/FONT]
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    China will not follow US path of carbon emissions

    China meets five-year energy efficiency goals | Leonardo ENERGYChina’s economic growth has been threatened by inefficient use of energy, and as a result, the nation launched a national campaign to reduce losses in energy-consuming industries, with a focus on electricity generation and steel...
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    China will not follow US path of carbon emissions

    China Won’t Ape US in CO2 Levels as that Would be “World Disaster” | CleanTechnica The world's climate scientists have agreed for some decades, and increasingly so, that global emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide must be curtailed to keep some semblance of the climate that we...
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    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    Judith Curry Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot Posted on October 30, 2011 by tamino| 39 Comments NOTE: See the UPDATE at the end of this post. I didn’t expect...
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    Forum Research, Posters' Political Compass

    In a few threads there have been some posts about the political leaning of this forum, and Canada. I thought about going back and looking at the older threads on the same topic, but I thought I would rather look at current and active posters' responses. So, it's the political compass that many...
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    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    In on what? The conclusion shouldn't shock anyone, the planet is warming... PS. posted here earlier tonight: forums.canadiancontent.net/climate-change/68017-our-cooling-world-26.html#post1494281
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    Our cooling world

    File under, no $hit Sherlock. Results are in from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project. For those who may not be aware, this project started under the guise that the surface temperature results could be biased by poor station placement, and the physicist leading the project cited...