“I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day, America will no longer drink Coca Cola.” Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Solar industry’s lead emissions
“Solar power is not all sunshine. It has a dark side—particularly in developing countries,” reports a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, engineering professor. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy, Lead
Cholera-global warming link debunked
A new study in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene debunks the claim that global warming (via rising sea surface temperatures) will increase cholera outbreaks. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Lancet editors miss bogus reference on Japanese longevity and salt intake
Is it too much to ask of medical journal editors to verify references for key claims? After all, just because a study author footnotes a claim, should that act automatically enshrine the claim with credibility? Continue reading
Posted in Salt
Flame retardants reduce infant birthweight?
UC-Berkeley’s anti-flame retardant crusader Brenda Eskenazi is back at it with a new study claiming to link maternal exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) with reduced infant birth weight. Continue reading
Posted in Chemophobia, Flame retardants (PBDEs)
Johns Hopkins’ embarrassment: MS in global warming BS
Johns Hopkins University is now offering a master’s degree program in global warming alarmism. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Education
IBD: Perry vs. Gore
Editorial, Investor’s Business Daily
August 30, 2011
Junk Science: The governor of a state under assault by the EPA takes on the patron saint of climate change over whether “warmers” or “deniers” benefit financially from the debate. Meanwhile, the nation loses. Continue reading
Posted in Battle of 2012, Climate Change
Conn Carroll: Flood of new EPA rules could drown economic growth
“Seven proposed rules pending before the agency are poised to inflict more than $125 billion in costs on the U.S. economy annually, according to EPA’s own estimates… [and] all of the EPA’s claimed health benefits from CAA regulations are, at best, bureaucratic guesses,” says Washington Examiner senior editorial writer Conn Carroll. Read Carroll’s commentary.
Posted in Air pollution, Costs and benefits, EPA
Ozone hurts crop production?
Satellite views of the Midwestern United States show that ozone levels above 50 parts per billion (ppb) along the ground could reduce soybean yields by at least 10 percent, costing more than $1 billion in lost crop production, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution
Krugman: Republicans against science
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a former advisor to cap-and-trade pusher Enron, claims Republicans are anti-science because they don’t believe in the manmade global warming hypothesis.
But isn’t it anti-science to expect scientists to support a hypothesis merely because some (or even many or most) do? When I was in college and graduate school, my professors proved laws, theorems etc. from first principles — not by simply asserting that a consensus of belief exists.
Also offensive is the notion that unless you are a paid climate researcher, your views on extant climate science (like those who signed the Petition Project) don’t count. But you don’t need to be Steven Spielberg to be a movie critic.
Posted in Climate Change
House GOP outlines fall attack on EPA
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has laid on plans (see Memo below) to overturn much of the EPA’s economy- and job-killing agenda. But as good as the memo sounds, mere House votes against the EPA will not do the trick. The House needs to strangle the EPA in ongoing debt and budget negotiations. The House controls government purse strings and needs to use that leverage to stop the EPA, which is one of the biggest threats and obstacles to America’s recovery and prosperity. Continue reading
Posted in 112th Congress, Air pollution, Climate Change, Coal, EPA
Wind mills more dangerous to eagles than DDT
Killing an eagle can put you in jail for a year and cost $5,000, under federal law. But killing hundreds of eagles in the name of saving the planet earns you taxpayer subsidies? Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy, Climate Change, Endangered species
WSJ: An EPA Moratorium
From the Wall Street Journal editorial page: Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, EPA
Irene: Another doomsday forecast gone awry
“From North Carolina to New Jersey, Hurricane Irene appeared to have fallen short of the doomsday predictions,” reports the Associated Press.
Posted in Climate Change
Bachmann: Radical greens blocking energy development
“Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann claimed Saturday that the United States has more fuel resources than any other country, but blamed what she termed “radical environmentalists” for bottling up American energy policy, reports the Washington Post.
Posted in Battle of 2012
Green on green violence: Politico smacks down 350.org’s Bill McKibben
350.org founder Bill McKibben’s effort to link Hurricane Irene with global warming is so outrageous that even Politico called him on it. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, The Comrades
Gore: Fighting skeptics like fighting racism
Not wanting to be outdone by James Hansen in this week’s climate lunacy contest and apparently envious of Martin Luther King’s new monument on the Washington DC mall, Al Gore likened the battle against climate skeptics to the civil rights struggle against racism: Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Notable and Quotable
Hurricane Barack: EPA ready to destroy what Irene misses
“Regardless of track and intensity, Hurricane Irene will cause extensive tree and power line damage. Electricity infrastructure will be greatly compromised for millions if not tens of millions of Americans,” predicts the Weather Channel. And as as pointed out by the National Mining Association, what’s left will be compromised even further by the Obama EPA.
Posted in Air pollution
Hansen: Obama a ‘hopeless [oil] addict’
NASA’s James Hansen continues adding to his resume of lunacy. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Climatewire: Irene caused by CO2 emissions?
As Hurricane Irene approaches the East Coast, the media is already attempting to link it with the much-dreaded global warming. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
