Reshoring

A tax structure that promotes operating in the US could change the wave in this article into a tsunami.

“Some big U.S. companies report that they will soon be “reshoring” – returning production to technologically advanced rich countries. Global consulting firm Boston Consulting Group reported recently that one-third of U.S.-based manufacturers operating in China, companies with $1-billion in annual revenue, have confirmed plans to reshore part of their Chinese production; among bigger companies, those with $10-billion in revenue, the number rises to 50 per cent. BCG said reshoring will create as many as three million jobs in the U.S. by the end of the decade, and increase the country’s annual industrial production by $100-billion.”

Read the reason for this trend here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/neil-reynolds/technology-spurring-a-new-manufacturing-revolution/article2426932/

A 3000 year supply of natural gas for the US.

Methane, locked in frozen deposits, can be released with the injection of the needlessly dreaded carbon dioxide. A 3000 year supply is the conservative estimate. This defines the word “sustainable”.

“The U.S. now produces 21 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas a year. But it possesses 330,000 tcf of natural gas in its methane hydrate resource – theoretically enough to supply the country for 3,000 years (give or take). Using less conservative numbers (for example, a methane hydrate resource of 670,000 tcf), the U.S. is good to go for 6,000 years (give or take).”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/neil-reynolds/methane-hydrate-technology-fuels-a-new-energy-regime/article2433611/

Can you say “sustainable”?

The UN has shifted its concern from global warming to “sustainable energy” With this news one could reasonably wonder “what’s the fuss?”. (The UN has declared 2012 as “the international year of sustainable energy for all”.)

“(Reuters) – The Energy Department on Wednesday announced a breakthrough in research into tapping a possibly vast fuel resource that could eventually bolster already massive natural gas reserves.

By injecting a mixture of carbon dioxide and nitrogen into a methane hydrate formation on Alaska’s North Slope, the department was able to produce a steady flow of natural gas in the first field test of this method. The test was done from mid-February to about mid-April this year

Methane hydrates are ice crystal-like structures that contain natural gas. The hydrates are located under the Arctic permafrost and in ocean sediments along the continental shelf.”

Source:http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/02/us-usa-natgas-hydrates-idUSBRE84119120120502

The corruption of climate science. Part I

http://enthusiasmscepticismscience.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/madrid-1995-was-this-the-tipping-point-in-the-corruption-of-climate-science/#more-616

Find the nugget in this blog entry

A video featuring Murry Salby is a Youtube video that is private but it can be seen from a link in this blog entry:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/19/what-you-mean-we-arent-controlling-the-climate/

Discover how CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere are an outcome of climate variability rather than human emissions.

or

There is no smoking gun.

Israel – an energy powerhouse

Israel has reserves of oil to match it’s huge discoveries of natural gas.

“Israel Capable of Producing 250 Billion Barrels of Oil

“Our company has mapped over 250 billion barrels of recoverable oil in Israel,” says Dr. Harold Vinegar of Israel Energy Initiative Ltd.”

See:http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153922

 

Polar Bears Thriving

“The debate about climate change and its impact on polar bears has intensified with the release of a survey that shows the bear population in a key part of northern Canada is far larger than many scientists thought, and might be growing.

The number of bears along the western shore of Hudson Bay, believed to be among the most threatened bear subpopulations, stands at 1,013 and could be even higher, according to the results of an aerial survey released Wednesday by the Government of Nunavut. That’s 66 per cent higher than estimates by other researchers who forecasted the numbers would fall to as low as 610 because of warming temperatures that melt ice faster and ruin bears’ ability to hunt. The Hudson Bay region, which straddles Nunavut and Manitoba, is critical because it’s considered a bellwether for how polar bears are doing elsewhere in the Arctic.”

Source:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/healthy-polar-bear-count-confounds-doomsayers/article2392523/

polar bear sightings

Source:http://env.gov.nu.ca/sites/default/files/foxe_basin_polar_bears_2012.pdf