Now, I can’t claim to support the contention the EPA has ever served a useful function or done anything but delay development and inevitable environmental improvement (the wealthier a society becomes the higher it values amenity and aesthetics and the greater the effort and finance it is prepared to divert to the creation/maintenance of baubles like parks, wilderness and wildlife reserves). While I believe the EPA is inherently misanthropic and should be eliminated immediately CFACT has certainly earned sufficient credibility that I am prepared to give them space and publicity for their campaign. Herewith then CFACT’s petition to save the EPA.
Daily Archives: June 28, 2011
“Environmentalism” as a weapon against humanity
CA Enviro Plan Channels Pol Pot
By WAYNE LUSVARDI
Remember Pol Pot, the Cambodian dictator and head of the Khmer Rouge? According to Wikipedia, “During his time in power, Pol Pot imposed a version of agrarian socialism, forcing urban dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects, toward a goal of ‘restarting civilization’ in a ‘Year Zero.’ The combined effects of forced labour, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions resulted in the deaths of approximately 21 percent of the Cambodian population” — 2.5 million people.
Something similar must have been on the minds of the California Council on Science and Technology when it issued its new report, “California’s Energy Future — the View to 2050.” It provides “portraits” of what, under a regime that could be called the Khmer Green, they hope the next state energy system will look like in California’s Year Zero — 2050 (CalWatchdog)
Maryland Adds Environmental Literacy in High Schools
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Posted in Activists, Enviros, Misanthropy
Big Al’s taking a bit of stick lately
The Mendacity of Al Gore’s Rolling Stone Article, Part 3: Diplomacy and Climate Policy
by WILLIAM YEATMAN on JUNE 28, 2011
[N.B. Ex-Vice President and massive carbon “polluter” Al Gore took to the pages of last week’s Rolling Stone in order to critique President Barack Obama’s supposedly timid response to global warming. This is Part 3 of a multipart series on the policy distortions peddled by Mr. Gore in the piece.] (Cooler Heads)
Posted in Activists, Rubber room
CO2 Science Volume 14 Number 26: 29 June 2011
New Major Report
Estimates of Global Food Production in the Year 2050 — Will We Produce Enough to Adequately Feed the World?: Government leaders and policy makers should take notice of the findings of this important new analysis of the world food situation; for doing what climate alarmists claim is needed to fight global warming will surely consign earth’s human population to a world of woe, while doing next to nothing in terms of altering the current warm phase of the planet’s surface temperature.
Editorial
A New Model Search for the “Missing Sink” of Anthropogenic CO2: Has it actually found it?
Journal Reviews
Cold European Winters and Low Solar Activity: Are the two related in any way?
Global Warming and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: How does the former affect the latter?
Warming-Induced Microevolution in Tawny Owls: What was found? … and why is it important?
Live Coral Cover on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: How has it varied over the past decade and a half?
Effects of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment on Forest Water Use: Do elevated concentrations of atmospheric CO2lead to more or less water use by forests?
The Productivity of China’s Forests: 1961-2005: How did it vary over the specified time period?
Ocean Acidification Database
The latest addition of peer-reviewed data archived to our database of marine organism responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment is Collector Urchin [Tripneustes gratilla]. To access the entire database, click here.
Plant Growth Database
Our latest results of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature are: Black Alder (Hoosbeek et al., 2011) and Red Raspberry (Martin and Johnson, 2011).
Medieval Warm Period Project
Was there a Medieval Warm Period? YES, according to data published by 986 individual scientists from 567 research institutions in 43 different countries … and counting! This issue’s Medieval Warm Period Record comes from Southern Okinawa Trough, East China Sea. To access the entire Medieval Warm Period Project’s database, click here.
World Temperatures Database
Back by popular demand and upgraded to allow patrons more choices to plot and view the data, we reintroduce the World Temperatures section of our website. Here, users may plot temperatures for the entire globe or regions of the globe. A newly added feature allows patrons the ability to plot up to six independent datasets on the same graph. Try it today. World Temperatures Database.
Major Report
Carbon Dioxide and Earth’s Future: Pursuing the Prudent Path: Ten of the more ominous model-based predictions of what will occur in response to continued business-as-usual anthropogenic CO2 emissions are compared against real-world observations. (co2science.org)
Posted in Uncategorized
Restoring the scientific method
The Heartland Institute will host its Sixth International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, DC on June 30 – July 1, 2011 at the Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Road NW.
Dozens of think tank cosponsors and hundreds of scientists will gather in an effort to “restore the scientific method” to its rightful place in the debate over the causes, consequences, and policy implications of climate change.
The theme of the conference, “Restoring the Scientific Method,” acknowledges the fact that claims of scientific certainty and predictions of climate catastrophes are based on “post-normal science,” which substitutes claims of consensus for the scientific method. This choice has had terrible consequences for science and society. Abandoning the scientific method led to the “Climategate” scandal and the errors and abuses of peer review by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The scientists speaking at this conference, and the hundreds more who are expected to attend, are committed to restoring the scientific method. This means abandoning the failed hypothesis of man-made climate change, and using real science and sound economics to improve our understanding of the planet’s ever-changing climate. (Heartland)
See it live here.
Responding to Al Gore’s Rolling Stone
The Mendacity of Al Gore’s Rolling Stone Article, Part 2: Special Interests and Climate Policy
by WILLIAM YEATMAN on JUNE 27, 2011
[N.B. Ex-Vice President and massive carbon “polluter” Al Gore took to the pages of last week’s Rolling Stone in order to critique President Barack Obama’s supposedly timid response to global warming. This is Part 2 of a multipart series on the policy distortions peddled by Mr. Gore in the piece.] (Cooler Heads)
Night approaches down-under, dark-green age looms
Last week while driving, I happened to hear part of the farewell speech of Senator Nick Minchin. We will sorely miss people like this stalwart senator. It struck me that this one sad event was like the bell tolling for the new Dark Age to come. In the next few weeks, unless a miracle occurs, and for the first time ever, dark greens and their fellow travellers will gain control of the both houses of parliament in Australia.
No doubt we have won the battle for the minds of the Australian people – every poll shows a strong majority is opposed to the tax on carbon dioxide. And there is growing scepticism for the claim that man causes climate change. But the green elite, who have never won majority support in their own right, are determined to pursue their destructive goals.
Their long-term agenda is to destroy human industry and reduce human population. Thus they are opposed to farming, mining, fishing, forestry, exploration and cheap power. (Carbon Sense Coalition)
Posted in Enviros
On another mendacious environmental whacko group campaign
Forbidden-fruit frenzy
Public health fearmongers have set their sights on apples and spinach
BY TREVOR BUTTERWORTH MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2011
Collectively, our diets are a disaster movie in slow motion: Evolution has wired us to eat as much sweet and fatty food as possible while expending as little energy as possible, and history has managed to deliver the best of all possible environments to encourage both.
The prognostications as to what all of this is going to do to our health (and the cost of health care) in the next 40 years are grim. The fatter we get, the more we will suffer cancer and heart attacks and the more we will have to spend to keep ourselves alive. And yet, what should we be worried about, according to the latest scare from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), an activist group? Apples, spinach, potatoes and blueberries. (The Daily)
Posted in Chemophobia, Health care, Pesticide
New campaign in the “war on obesity” and other adipose nonsense
Pediatrician group urges ban on junk food ads
U.S. pediatricians want to ban junk food ads aimed at children, saying that they conspire with sedentary activities like watching television and playing video games to make kids fat.
“Congress and the Federal Trade Commission have to get tough with the food industry,” said Dr. Victor Strasburger, who wrote the new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), a group of 65,000 physicians. (Reuters)
Australia has what appears to be a coordinated campaign by a doctors group.
ABC News Attacks Scientist Who Exposed Bias In Obesity Research
Posted in Activists, Health care
From the department of redundancy department…
The US EPA apparently thinks it newsworthy that people with impaired health suffer when a region is blanketed in smoke, although they still only came up with less than interesting RR 1.37 for “symptoms of” heart failure (what were the actual number of cases?). Sorry guys, we don’t need an EPA to know more people exhibit shortness of breath (a “symptom of heart failure”) when the place is blanketed in smoke. Then again, we also see an increase in the number of patients presenting with shortness of breath on father-and-son race days, too and my guess is that statistic is >RR 1.37 
Study Finds Peat Wildfire Smoke Linked to Heart Failure Risk
In the summer of 2008, a lightning strike started a wildfire in eastern North Carolina that burned for weeks, blanketing nearby communities in smoke. An EPA study shows for the first time that smoke from this wildfire, which was fueled by peat (decayed vegetable matter found in swampy areas) can lead to an increase in emergency room visits for both respiratory and cardiovascular effects.
This was the first study to report increased visits for symptoms of heart failure in counties exposed to wildfire smoke. The study found a 37 percent increase in emergency room visits for people with symptoms of heart failure during a three day period of dense smoke exposure and the following five days. (US EPA)
Posted in EPA, Health care
The EPA’s assault on abundant affordable energy by any means
EPA and the Mercury Scare
by Paul Driessen
Trying to correct all the disinformation about “mercury and air toxics” is a full-time job
Ever since public, congressional and union anger and anxiety persuaded the Environmental Protection Agency to delay action on its economy-strangling carbon dioxide rules, EPA has been on a take-no-prisoners crusade to impose other job-killing rules for electricity generating plants. (SPPI)
Posted in Coal, Energy, EPA, Mercury, Propaganda, Regulation
A picture worth a thousand words – busily selling out US sovereignty
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson was spotted in Nairobi, Kenya for the 26th session of the governing council of the United Nations Environment Programme
Flashback 26 May 2011: The United Nations States Environmental Protection Agency
“It is our vision that by working with global partners we can advance our shared priorities, including adapting to climate change, ensuring national security, facilitating commerce, promoting sustainable development, protecting vulnerable populations and engaging diplomatically around the world.”
The EPA is seen by the UN and its supporters as the Trojan horse for controlling carbon dioxide emissions in the US, leaving the way open for global control via the UN. The Agency’s considerable involvement with the IPCC and the UNFCCC on many levels gives strong support to that agenda. (Dennis Ambler, SPPI)
