Environment and Energy News reports that Prince Charles will lobby Congress next week on climate. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Business Roundtable comes to on EPA climate rules
America’s CEOs have finally realized that President Obama is not their friend when it comes to the EPA. Continue reading
Posted in Notable and Quotable
‘Study’: BPA hurts babies; Oops, sample size=1
We’ve seen it all at JunkScience.com, and this has to be some sort of new low. Continue reading
Posted in Bisphenol A (BPA)
BPA-free isn’t
By Steve Milloy
There’s a new tale to be told in the annals of corporate greenwashing — so-called “BPA-free” cash register receipts. Continue reading
Posted in Bisphenol A (BPA)
Organic Valley identified as secret funder of ‘FrogTV’ pesticide scare campaign
Is American agriculture facing yet another major attack on food safety similar to the 1989 Alar scare? Continue reading
Posted in Organic food, Pesticides
American Academy of Pediatrics prioritizes fear over facts
The American Academy of Pediatrics this week issued a ““Policy Statement — Chemical-Management Policy: Prioritizing Children’s Health.” If this is what pediatrics is becoming, maybe Christian Scientists have a point. Continue reading
Posted in Chemophobia
EPA set up biomass industry for failure
No doubt some lobbyist was patting himself on the back in January after securing a 3-year reprieve from EPA’ greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations for the biomass industry. Continue reading
Posted in Biomass
Bad news for AMA: Dengue still not blamed on climate change
The upward trend in dengue fever in the U.S. is still not being blamed — at least by scientists — on climate change. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Sad but true: JunkScience predicts Shell drilling permit fiasco
As predicted in print by Steve Milloy more than a year ago, Shell Oil’s Arctic Ocean drilling permits have been blocked by the EPA. Continue reading
Posted in Oil and gas
New ‘disease’: Gulf Spill Syndrome
It was bound to happen — mysterious maladies blamed on exposure to last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Continue reading
Posted in Syndromes
Obama postures about $4-gallon gas at a $35,800 per plate fundraiser
At a $35,800-per-plate Democratic fundraiser last night in California, President Obama slammed “climate change deniers” and postured about the high price of gas:
“Right now we’ve got $4-a-gallon gas, and most of the people under this tent don’t have to worry about that. But for the average person who has to drive 50 miles to work and can’t afford to buy the [$100,000] Tesla, it’s hammering them. It’s hurting them,” Obama said, according to a White House transcript that notes the Tesla comment drew laughter.
Obama also said,
“But I don’t think there’s any doubt that unless we are able to move forward in a serious way on clean energy that we’re putting our children and our grandchildren at risk.”
If he was really worried about “children and grandchildren,” then he be more concerned about the “average people” who are raising those kids.
Posted in Notable and Quotable
Anti-pesticide activists exploit poor kids
By Steve Milloy
While it’s not surprising that children from the inner city and Latino farmworker communities might perform slightly less well than average American children on development tests, anti-pesticide activists can make it news if they can link that performance to pesticides. And so they have tried. Continue reading
Posted in Pesticides
Earth to Harvard Med faculty: DES is not an ‘endocrine disrupter’
A commentary in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine spotlights how easy it is to forget basic scientific principles even when you’re on the Harvard Medical School faculty. Continue reading
Posted in Endocrine disrupters
Does air pollution cause breast cancer?
University of Buffalo researchers claim to have linked air pollution with increased risk of breast cancer.
Though I haven’t received a copy of the study yet, I feel confident in rushing to condemn it as junk science.
As there’s no credible evidence that even heavy smoking (i.e., lots of “toxins” inhaled deeply for decades) increases breast cancer risk, why would ambient air be a risk factor?
Posted in Air pollution
Enviros wrong on Keystone pipeline greenhouse gas emissions
Enviro activists are apoplectic that the Obama State Department has dismissed their concerns about the Keystone (tar sands) pipeline resulting in increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Introducing JunkScience.com’s Global Thermometer
Everyone’s talked about it for years. Politicians and activists have tried to change the entire Western economy and social order because of it. Some have made a fortune or become famous ranting about it.
But no one has ever known what it is. Not only has the technology not existed to calculate it but, truth be told, it doesn’t even really exist in any meaningful manner in the first place! Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Greens set to lose ‘nuisance’ claim in Supreme Court
Things didn’t go well today for the states arguing before the Supreme Court that CO2 can be subject to common law nuisance claims. Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change
Ross Gelbspan still not a Pulitzer winner
The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday — and climate alarmist Ross Gelbspan is again (still) not among them. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Mercury-laden albatross around neck of coal?
by Steve Milloy
What can feathers from eight birds tell us about mercury emissions over the past 140 years? Continue reading
Posted in Mercury
Charles Manson a climate alarmist
You just can’t make this stuff up… from the Daily Mail (UK):
Crazed cult leader Charles Manson has broken a 20-year silence in a prison interview coinciding with the 40th anniversary of his conviction for the gruesome Sharon Tate murders – to speak out about global warming…
In a cell phone conversation, Manson said,
“Everyone’s God and if we don’t wake up to that there’s going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we’re doing bad things to the atmosphere. If we don’t change that as rapidly as I’m speaking to you now, if we don’t put the green back on the planet and put the trees back that we’ve butchered, if we don’t go to war against the problem…”
So at least someone is paying attention to Al Gore.
Posted in Climate Change
