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A geothermal energy company with a $98.5 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration for an alternative energy project in Nevada — which received hearty endorsements from Energy Secretary Steven Chuand Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — faces financial problems, and the company’s auditors have questioned whether it can stay in business.

Much like Solyndra LLC, a California solar-panel manufacturer with a $535 million federal loan guarantee that went bankrupt, Nevada Geothermal Power (NGP) has incurred $98 million in net losses over the past several years, has substantial debts and does not generate enough cash from its current operations after debt-service costs, an internal audit said.

Lights go dim on another energy project – Washington Times

h/t to tckev

I was on a conference call to Toronto this morning, and several people were discussing the heat – saying “it never used to be like this.”

13 Jul 1936 – 900 DEAD. HEAT WAVE In North America. RECORD TEM…

Why doesn’t climate science peer review involve any actual review?

Nature recently published this ingenious paper claiming a “sea level rise hotspot” between Cape Hatteras and Cape Cod.

SLRDs for 60-yr time series at gauge locations across North America. : Hotspot of accelerated sea-level rise on the Atlantic coast of North America : Nature Climate Change : Nature Publishing Group

Satellite measurements don’t show this “hot spot” – only tide gauges, indicating that the land is sinking rather than the ocean rising. The geology of the region is well understood – glacial rebound from the last ice age is causing the “hot spot” to sink at the same rate as the rise measured by tide gauges.

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Besides the fact that they missed the fundamental geological point, their claim of “accelerated sea level rise” is also bogus. The tide gauges show no acceleration, just a steady subsidence of the land over the last 160 years. The fastest sea level rise actually occurred during the 1930s.

http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/12.php

It took me about 15 seconds of reading the study to recognize the horrific error they had made – yet the paper managed to get through peer review at the “prestigious” Nature Magazine.

h/t to Marc Morano

The snow and -20C weather put a damper on the Fourth of July festivities on the Greenland ice sheet.

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Bill McKibben is convinced that hot dry weather in New England is due to your SUV.

Twitter / billmckibben: Today’s self-evident truth

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The USHCN graph below shows actual temperatures measured by thermometers in the US. The 1920s, 1930s and 1940s were the hottest decades, before Hansen and Tom Karl altered the data.

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On July 10, 1913 – Death Valley reached 134 degrees. On July 4, 2012 the temperature is sixty-two degrees cooler.

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death valley weather – Google Search

Ancient soccer moms caused 120 metres of sea level rise. We know this because 97% of our leading scientific societies tell us that climate change is caused by man woman.

‘Britain’s Atlantis’ – a hidden underwater world swallowed by the North Sea – has been discovered by divers working with science teams from the University of St Andrews.

Doggerland, a huge area of dry land that stretched from Scotland to Denmark was slowly submerged by water between 18,000 BC and 5,500 BC.

Divers from oil companies have found remains of a ‘drowned world’ with a population of tens of thousands – which might once have been the ‘real heartland’ of Europe.

A team of climatologists, archaeologists and geophysicists has now mapped the area using new data from oil companies – and revealed the full extent of a ‘lost land’ once roamed by mammoths.

‘Britain’s Atlantis’ found at bottom of North sea – a huge undersea kingdom swamped by a tsunami 5,500 years ago | Mail Online

h/t to Marc Morano

Twenty towns were wrecked, and many people died – in the low CO2 hurricane of 1896.

03 Oct 1896 – HURRICANE IN AMERICA. TWENTY TOWNS WRECKED. THE …

h/t to Andy DC and Ivan