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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Sen. Lautenberg politicizes his dead sister to support EPA overregulation
Senate Republicans are apparently too polite to call out Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) on his shameless exploitation of his long-dead sister. Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution
Carbon ‘markets’ aren’t
If you need more evidence that cap-and-trade isn’t really market-based, you need look no further than the latest collapse of the EU carbon market. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Warmer: ‘Fire Up the Grill, Not the Atmosphere’
In the wake of Brian Palmer’s BBQ-ing-causes-global-warming op-ed in today’s New York Times, we are even more excited about grilling several cows over many bags of charcoal this Independence Day weekend.
Posted in Climate Change, Meat
FDA panel right on Avastin
An FDA panel has rightly rejected Avastin for the treatment of breast cancer. Continue reading
Posted in Pharmaceuticals
AAAS whines about FOIA requests for climate scoundrels Mann, Hansen
The global warming establishment feels real heat from skeptics and whines about it. Check out this release from the American Tradition Institute.
Posted in Climate Change
Chemicals on autopilot blame for autoimmune disease: Industry, chemists AWOL?
Does the chemical industry have any self-respect? Continue reading
Posted in Chemophobia
Cancer cluster among TSA screeners?
As much as we may dislike the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and its often over-the-top airport screening procedures, there is no reason to believe that airport body scanners present any sort of risk of harm to TSA workers. If there is a genuine surge in health effects among TSA employees who work near scanners, the surge is likely due to increased diagnosis and reporting of medical conditions as opposed to radiation exposure. There’s just not enough radiation exposure to workers from the scanners. The scanners can be opposed on grounds of intrusiveness and pointlessness but not safety.
Posted in Disease clusters, Radiation
EPA regulations — our economy’s golden goose?
Every dollar spent complying with federal regulations returned anywhere from $2.13 to $14.90 during the 2000s, according to a new report from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). EPA rules accounted for approximately 84% of this alleged regulatory largesse. Needless to say, the OMB report is total nonsense. Continue reading
Posted in Costs and benefits
Climatewire: Unfair trade press (Part 2)
So I received the following e-mail from Climatewire deputy editor Lisa Friedman in response to my e-mail to editor John Fialka: Continue reading
Posted in Green jobs
Climatewire: Unfair trade press
Why is perfectly legal funding for a climate skeptic a big trade press story but possibly illegal income paid to a government climate alarmist a non-story? Continue reading
Posted in Green Hypocrisy
Black carbon and global warming?
The EPA’s Science Advisory Board has endorsed the EPA’s draft Report to Congress on Black Carbon, which concludes that black carbon emissions are the second or third leading cause of global warming. But check out the report’s charts on historical black carbon emissions (pages 4-37 to 4-39). Let us know if you find some correlation between historical black carbon emissions and historical temperatures.
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Posted in Climate Change
UN underscores arbitrariness of chemical bans
Canada and the Ukraine successfully blocked the banning of chrysotile asbestos from the UN’s politically incorrect list of chemicals that can be banned from import as hazardous. The two countries argued that chrysotile asbestos shouldn’t be banned because it can be handled safely. Of course, there’s not a chemical on the Rotterdam list that can’t be handled and/or used safely. Chemical bans are arbitrary, silly and harmful.
Posted in Asbestos, Chemophobia
New BPA scare: Male mice less hunky to females?
Is your significant other turned off after you consume canned food? Do you have trouble finding your way home after touching a cash register receipt? Continue reading
Posted in Bisphenol A (BPA)
A Lesson in Limited Government: Dow Chemical vs. Natural Gas Industry
Today’s lesson in why “limited government” is the best government comes courtesy of Dow Chemical and the natural gas industry. Continue reading
Posted in Fracking
NYTimes assault on fracking continues
The New York Times continued its assault on hydraulic farcturing for natural gas (“fracking”) over the weekend and today with two front-page articles attempting to position the unconventional gas industry as a scam. Continue reading
Posted in Fracking, Oil and gas
Pawlenty: Running from His Past Moves on Environmental Policy
GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty says he’s a skeptic; but he used to be a climate alarmist. Can he be trusted? The National Journal summarizes Pawlenty’s troubling climate past.
Posted in Battle of 2012, Climate Change
More Five-Star Green Hypocrisy
If Brown University Prof. Barrett Hazeltine wants to be a green activist he really ought to avoid participating in piggish consumption. Continue reading
Posted in Green Hypocrisy
RINOs for Traffic Fatalities?
A group of 15 so-called Republicans wrote President Obama urging him to double average fuel efficiency to as much as 62 miles per gallon by 2025. Continue reading
Posted in Autos, The Comrades
Minnesota Congressman urges Gore to lie to poor people
Minnesota Democrat Rep. Keith Ellison is urging Al Gore exploit poor, asthmatic children. Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, Child Exploitation, Climate Change
