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On Green Hell Blog- Anti-pesticide cranks responsible for elevated childhood asthma? June 13, 2011Crawling culprit seen in urban kids’ asthma Researchers have identified cockroaches as a potential explanation for dramatic variations between neighborhoods in asthma rates among New York City children. In some New York City neighborhoods, 19 percent — nearly 1 in 5 — children have asthma; in others, the rate is as low as 3 percent. [...]
- Paul Driessen on Oregon Dems’ attack on skeptic’s kids April 26, 2011Political Payback – Oregon Style Paul Driessen Confused visitors will be forgiven for thinking Oregon State University is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Congressman Pete DeFazio and the “progressive-socialist” wing of the Democratic Party. Or for likening what’s going on there to political retribution as practiced in Third World thugocracies. (Townhall) […]
- Greenpeace assault on coal finance April 8, 2011Check out this assault on an Australian Bank for their involvement with the mining industry that quite literally sustains the country: h/t Jo Nova
- Further update on Oregon Dems attack skeptic’s kids March 28, 2011Crunch time: Payback machine grinding GOP candidate’s kids WorldNetDaily Earlier this month, WND broke the sensational story in which Art Robinson – the noted scientist who challenged Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio for Oregon’s 4th District congressional seat in November –alleged some extraordinarily nasty post-election political retribution was underway agai […]
- Carbon tax coming to the EU? March 16, 2011The European Union’s taxation commissioner plans to propose a new two-part fuel tax, split into a carbon tax of 20 euros per ton of CO2 and a minimum energy tax on motor fuels and heating fuels. (Reuters).
- Study: Greens’ red tape costs GDP, jobs March 10, 2011A first-of-its kind study from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reports that stalled energy projects are costing the New York economy $36.2 Billion and More Than 60,000 Jobs. (Progress Denied: A Study on the Potential Economic Impact of Permitting Challenges Facing Proposed Energy Projects).
- Update on Oregon Dems attack skeptic’s kids March 10, 2011Following on from Oregon Dems attack climate skeptic’s children Art Robinson has posted further information here. Follow the issue on Oregon State Outrage.
- EPA GHG regs put biomass plant at risk March 9, 2011Thanks to EPA’s new greenhouse gas permitting authority, a proposed Wisconsin biomass plant has come under fire from green activists. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel report: It doesn’t make sense to issue a permit for the project because it would add emissions of carbon dioxide at a rate much higher than a natural gas-fueled power [...]
- Africa’s killer dares to criticize March 9, 2011Check out this galling interview of William Ruckelshaus, the EPA administrator who banned DDT. While Ruckelshaus is correct in criticizing Members of Congress for essentially being willfully uninformed on environmental issues, his criticism is astonishingly arrogant given his own willful (and genocidal) ignorance of facts. During 1971-1972, the EPA held seve […]
- Coal exec: ‘More coal. All the time.’ March 9, 2011Don’t miss Peabody Energy exec Fred Palmer’s unapologetic interview with The Guardian (UK). Notable quotes include: “We’re 100% coal. More coal. Everywhere. All the time.” “We don’t have a political allegiance. We’re Americans and our political party is coal.” “Anyone who has the notion that we’re going to move away from fossil fuels just isn’t [...] […]
- Scoundrel CFL makers lobby against consumers March 9, 2011Light bulb makers, in the form of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, will be testifying against a repeal of the 2007 federal light bulb law on March 10 before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The trade group and its member firms have been making their lobbying rounds on Capitol Hill this week. According [...]
- Oregon Dems attack climate skeptic’s children March 7, 2011Democrat-run Oregon State University is apparently retaliating against climate skeptic and congressional candidate Dr. Art Robinson by taking action without cause against his three graduate student children. Robinson put together the petition against climate alarmism signed by 31,000+ U.S. scientists and unsuccessfully challenged Rep. Peter DeFazio in OR-4 l […]
- Sierra Club chief admits lobbying for business March 4, 2011At the Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics conference today, Sierra Club chief Carl Pope casually mentioned that the Sierra Club sits down with corporations having environmental regulatory problems and then uses its expertise in “changing public policy” to help the corporation solve its problem with the government — a novel role for a non-profit organization that […]
- CAGW hysteria risks public health March 3, 2011Activists love to talk about the hypothetical far-future “health risks” of a less-cold planet. They are not so keen to discuss the very real harms caused by their hysterical anti-carbon claims here and now. We at JunkScience.com are not so reticent. The immediate trigger for this is an article in the Adelaide Advertiser from South [...]
- Shell wants you to walk March 2, 2011At the annual Rentseekers Ball (aka the Wall Street Journal’s ECO:nomics Conference), Royal Dutch Shell gave attendees room-warming gifts — pedometers, with a note that was headlined “Take the First Step.” If they want us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so much, why do they sell us gasoline?
- How to speed nuke permits: ‘Issue them’ March 1, 2011At today’s House Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing on EPA’s job killing greenhouse gas regulations, Rep. Cory Power (R-CO) asked panel witness Dan Reicher — a longtime anti-nuke campaigner trying to position himself as some sort of “clean energy” expert — what could be done to accelerate the issuance of nuke plant permits. While Reicher [...]
- ‘Clean energy’ central planning misfires in India March 1, 2011New Dehli’s experiment with “clean” natural gas turned out to be not so clean after all. A University of British Columbia study reports that, “A pioneering program by one of the world’s largest cities to switch its vehicle fleet to clean fuel has not significantly improved harmful vehicle emissions in more than 5,000 vehicles – [...]
- Arizona Public Service proposes ratepayer rip-off March 1, 2011Arizona Public Service is proposing a rate package that includes “decoupling” — i.e.: If approved, that would allow APS to collect a certain amount of revenue per customer regardless of how much energy was sold. Such plans essentially allow a company to earn more money for selling less electricity. Wake up Arizona. Decoupling should be [...]
- Is Obama With Eye On ’12 Mulling An EPA Rollback? March 1, 2011By Steve Milloy March 1, 2011, Investor’s Business Daily It looks as though President Obama may have decided that getting re-elected in 2012 is more important than saving the planet from the much-dreaded global warming. But then how does he break it to the people who helped elect him and whose support he will need [...]
- Is Obama prepping the left for bad news on EPA? February 28, 2011The coincidence of: Sen. Sherrod Brown’s letter to Obama about EPA regs; Pew Center chief Eileen Claussen’s “prediction” in today’s Guardian about Obama; and Grist.org’s howling about the Brown letter, may be signs that Obama is preparing his base for the impending news that the EPA will be delaying implementation of its greenhouse gas regulations [...] […]
- Anti-pesticide cranks responsible for elevated childhood asthma? June 13, 2011
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- UK climate chief: Skeptics are ‘crackpots and conspiracy theorists’ June 19, 2013RTCC reports: Speaking on Tuesday in Brussels during a during a CBI/EU Corporate Leaders Group event, Davey warned the consequences of inaction in the face of record emission levels were severe, calling on the European Union to adopt a 50% … Continue reading →
- 2012 Greenland melt shows climate models not ready for prime time June 19, 2013Even Michael Mann agrees. Andrew Freedman writes at ClimateCentral: The new study, along with other recent work, points to the unsettling possibility that the Arctic climate system is evolving in ways that have not been anticipated by sophisticated climate models. … Continue reading →
- In Berlin, Obama will invoke JFK, Reagan to push climate change June 18, 2013The Washington Examiner reports: Following a well-worn path to Germany’s Brandenburg Gate, President Obama plans to invoke America’s most important speakers at the Berlin landmark — John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan — as he seeks to revive his promise … Continue reading →
- Warmists attack Baltimore meteorologist Tony Pann for commenting on climate research scam June 18, 2013The warmist Forecast the Facts wants Pann muzzled. Baltimore’s City Paper reports: Now, a group called Forecast the Facts has teamed up with Maryland-based Chesapeake Climate Action Network to launch a petition, asking WBAL to “publicly correct the false claims … Continue reading →
- Obama Energy Secretary disavows Obama campaign attack on climate ‘deniers’ June 18, 2013The Hill reports: Rohrabacher then took aim at Organizing for Action (OFA), the advocacy group borne from President Obama’s reelection campaign that now works to advance the White House’s agenda. “Yet we have just a few weeks ago an offshoot … Continue reading →
- UN: Advertising food that children will eat has been ‘disastrously effective’ June 18, 2013Although that headline was originally meant as sarcasm, on second thought, it may be entirely accurate. Reuters reports: The marketing of unhealthy foods to children has proven “disastrously effective”, driving obesity by using cheap social media channels to promote fat-, … Continue reading →
- Peter Gleick on climate: Today, part of Alaska is hotter than Florida June 18, 2013Peter Stealing-Heartland-Institute-documents-was-a-”serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics” Gleick tweeted a serious lapse of scientific judgment today by trying to label weather as climate change. Gleick tweeted:
- Peak Meat? World Eats 7-Times More Animals Than in 1950 June 18, 2013“By 2050, the human population will be 9 billion. Can the meat machine keep up?” Malthusians write in The Atlantic: Planet Earth is a giant food machine. It’s done an impressive job cranking out sustenance for the masses, often aided … Continue reading →
- Debunked: Hansen’s manmade ‘loaded climate dice’ June 18, 2013James Hansen frets manmade CO2 emissions are “loading the climate dice” — the UK Met Office takes a different, broader view. From the Met Office’s report on today’s meeting about “unusual” UK weather: There are a number of possible factors … Continue reading →
- Carbon emissions reduction 56th on G8 96-point list June 18, 2013And the “strong commitment” to the “urgent need” comes with a big escape hatch — action “consistent with science.” Read the G-8 communique.
- G8 pays only lip service to climate in final communique June 18, 2013BusinessGreen reports: Leaders at the G8 Summit have reiterated their commitment to delivering bold action to tackle climate change, acknowledging they have “grave concern” about the failure to deliver sufficiently deep emission cuts and the economic and security risks that … Continue reading →
- Ten Nobel Peace Prize winners ask Obama to reject Keystone XL June 18, 2013They claim global warming will kill “hundreds of millions.” From the media release: The letter reminds the President and Secretary of State that, “Climate change threatens all of us, but it is the world’s most vulnerable who are already paying … Continue reading →
- Research to Nowhere: 13 federal agencies fund $2.5 billion annually in warmism research June 18, 2013And the warmists are still losing. At least the Bridge to Nowhere actually did go somewhere. Highlights of the NASA Authorization Act of 2013 …Thirteen different federal agencies fund $2.5 billion annually in climate science research, but only NASA has … Continue reading →
- Media Matters slams CNBC for giving equal time to non-warmists June 18, 2013Unfair fairness? Media Matters claims: Twenty-four out of the 47 substantial mentions or segments on climate change on CNBC, or just over 51 percent of coverage, cast doubt on whether manmade climate change existed. Read more…
- Attention Warmist Shoppers: Carbon emissions credits 25% off already-low-prices in the China aisle June 18, 2013The FT reports: China saw its first-ever domestic transaction in the right to discharge carbon dioxide at the launch of its first pilot carbon market on Tuesday, moving the world’s largest CO2 emitting country closer to capping such pollution… But … Continue reading →
- Meteorological Soc. President plays race card against wrong opponent June 18, 2013The only racism relevant to the environment is the WaPo-reported history full of “racist and exclusionary practices” among enviro groups. In “Does climate change disproportionately do harm to African-Americans?” MSNBC reports: Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd, president of the American Meteorological … Continue reading →
- Any global warming since 1978? Two climate experts debate June 18, 2013John Nielson Gammon vs. Fred Singer. Nielson-Gammon says: In summary, the reported land surface temperature trends over the land portions of the globe since 1978 are about +0.5 F/decade if measured directly, and they are around +0.3 to +0.4 F/decade … Continue reading →
- Shell: EU carbon goals can’t be met unless governments pay to bury carbon June 18, 2013Message decoded: EU carbon goals aren’t going to be met. Bloomberg reports: Carbon capture and storage, a way of cutting emissions from industry by burying them underground, needs more state support for the European Union to meet clean-energy goals, a … Continue reading →
- Claim: Air pollution causes autism June 18, 2013This is junk science because… … if this were true, autism rates would have exploded in the U.S. in the 1940s and continued high until the 1970s or so. Moreover, autism rates would be soaring in China right now. Additionally, … Continue reading →
- Aussie Climate Commission says 80% of fossil fuel reserves must stay in ground to avoid warming June 18, 2013What warming? UPI reports: A new report calls for 80 percent of global fossil fuel reserves to stay in the ground to avoid climate change. “The current amount of carbon embedded in the world’s indicated fossil fuel reserves would, if … Continue reading →
- UK climate chief: Skeptics are ‘crackpots and conspiracy theorists’ June 19, 2013
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