Tag Archives: United Nations

UN: Hunger will be worsened by ethanol

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Harold Ambler

The practical problems with corn-derived ethanol being used as fuel for automobile motors, landscaping tool motors, and outboard motors are too numerous to mention. The short version of the story is that ethanol causes water to condense in fuel systems, … Continue reading →

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UN Climate Report Confuses Arctic and Antarctic

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Harold Ambler

Things get stranger and stranger with the United Nations’ climate change science compendium published two weeks back. First, it was learned that the graph indicating temperature for the past 1,000 years had been taken from Wikipedia, where it had been … Continue reading →

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United Nations Uses Wikipedia Graph

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Harold Ambler

What started as a brouhaha in the blogosophere has turned into a minor embarrassment for the United Nations in the climate debates. As first reported on ClimateAudit.org, the origin of a graph used in last week’s UN climate report, published … Continue reading →

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