Daily Archives: February 23, 2011

Climate Rethink in California?

California Climate Rethink? CARB’s AB 32 Implementation Plan Under Fire (Tom Tanton, MasterResource.com) — “A California superior court recently issued a tentative decision against the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for failing to comply with environmental law pursuant to the implementation of AB 32, California’s global warming law… This is a teachable moment for CARB. It could also further highlight the complexity–and futility–of regulating GHG emissions in the quixotic quest to ’stabilize climate’.”

PCBs in NYC Schools: Mystery Solved

Now we know what the PCBs-in-New-York-City-schools hysteria was all about. Continue reading

Air pollution worse than cocaine for MIs?

A new study in the Lancet reports that while cocaine use is much more likely to trigger a non-fatal heart attack than air pollution (i.e., coarse particulate matter or PM10), air pollution is the more deadly trigger because more people are exposed to it. Continue reading

Sotomayor endorses vaccine-autism link?

Check out the Placebo Effect on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision concerning vaccines. It seems that Sotomayor hasn’t read the newspapers about the vaccine-autism fraud. Continue reading

Cell phones and brain glucose

Despite all the media coverage of yesterday’s report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that 50 minutes of cell phone use increases brain glucose metabolism in the region closest to the antenna, there is no cause for alarm. Continue reading