JunkScience.com greets Huntsman, RINOs at dinner
The RINO group Republicans for Environmental Protection held its second annual dinner last night, featuring “Republican” presidential candidate Jon Huntsman. You won’t want miss JunkScience.com’s pre-dinner welcome wagon…
Posted in The Comrades
MILLOY: EPA’s air-quality overkill
Costly new air-quality standards are based on suspect statistics
By Steve Milloy
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to kill more jobs with another make-believe air-pollution scare. Although congressional Republicans and businesses oppose the coming rules tightening ground-level ozone standards, they once again have opted to fight the agency with both arms tied behind their backs.
Posted in Activists, EPA, Ozone, Regulation
U.S. aims to slash emissions from oil, gas industry
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued draft rules on Thursday that would cut emissions of health-harming gases emitted during the production of oil and natural gas.
The rules, which were expected, would lower emissions of volatile organic compounds that contribute to smog by nearly 25 percent across the oil and gas industry and by 95 percent from natural gas wells drilled using the controversial technique of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. (Reuters)
Posted in EPA, Regulation
T. Boone’s Windy Misadventure And the Global Backlash Against Wind Energy
By Robert Bryce
Three years ago this month, T. Boone Pickens launched a multi-million dollar crusade to bring more wind energy to the US. “Building new wind generation facilities,” along with energy efficiency and more consumption of domestic natural gas, the Dallas billionaire claimed, would allow the US to “replace more than one-third of our foreign oil imports in 10 years.”
Those were halcyon times for the wind industry. These days, Pickens never talks about wind. He’s focused instead on getting a fat chunk of federal subsidies so he can sell more natural gas to long-haul truckers through his company, Clean Energy Fuels.
US Vilifies Carbon-Trading Scheme for Airlines
American airlines would rather not pay for their emissions in Europe.
Starting in 2012, airlines with flights to the EU will have to pay for certificates to emit CO2. But the United States has balked at the expensive plan. Their resistance threatens to spark a major trade dispute. (Spiegel)
Posted in Cap and tax, Regulation
BREAKING Australian Carbon Tax Legislation Released
The Carbon Tax legislation has been released finally: The draft from the Climate Change Department.
It’s supposed to be a simple tax on every ton of pollution. But nothing is simple when you try to tax a basic element of life. In a true free market you only need a buyer, a seller and a product. The Australian government is running this market from beginning to end: There are 340 pages of unfree rules.
The complexity is a chance to hand out favours to “our friends our fans and our marginal seats”.
How many ways can they crony up the country? (Jo Nova)
Carbon cop handed tough new powers
Sid Maher
Posted in Cap and tax
The Kingdom Of Darkness
Doug L. Hoffman
North America, after suffering through a lingering cold, wet spring, is now experiencing a bout of record setting summer heat. Once again, the sizzling summer temperatures are being blamed on global warming. The prophets of climate catastrophe claim to be exposing mankind’s folly by shining the light of science on humanity’s sins against nature. Perhaps it is time to recall the words of Thomas Hobbs who described the Kingdom of Darkness as “nothing else but a confederacy of deceivers that, to obtain dominion over men in this present world, endeavour, by dark and erroneous doctrines, to extinguish in them the light.” With sweltering weather as their cover, minions of the ecological Kingdom of Darkness are again on the march. (The Resilient Earth)
Posted in Climate change, Propaganda
Why Most Forbes Readers Know More About Global Warming than Most Climate Scientists
William Pentland
Climate science is notoriously complex. To put this complexity in perspective, Edmund Teller once estimated that the costs of building the data and computing infrastructure needed to extend weather forecasting abilities by about two weeks ran well into the trillions of dollars. (Forbes)
Posted in Cap and tax, Climate change
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