The guy likes to eat. So what? Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Want to be an IPCC reviewer?
Click here to apply to join the next climate nonsensus!
Posted in Climate Change
Texas needs a new climatologist
The global warming-believing state climatologist for Texas says that the 2011 drought could last until 2020. But how does he know? The answer is astonishing. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Video & poll: Whacking birds by wind turbine
Watch this video and vote for whether wind power is worth the cost in whacked birds. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Retiring federal judge goes off on federal scientists
Fresno U.S. District Judge Oliver W. Wanger excoriated government scientists for deception and zealotry with respect to the Delta smelt. Sadly, Judge Wanger’s retirement is imminent. Click to read the story.
Posted in Endangered species
Green irony: Ozone repletion to warm Antarctica
Time for a rethink of the Montreal Protocol? Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Ozone depletion
The cost of EPA’s TCE junk science
We reported yesterday about EPA’s junk science determiniation that TCE is a human carcinogen. Today, the Los Angeles Times reports on what this means for Superfund clean-ups.
Posted in Trichloroethylene (TCE)
Big Wind vs. Big Green
Big Wind wants to minimize the consequences of knocking birds out of the sky. Big Green wants to use birds to knock Big Wind out of business. The “clean energy”-loving Obama is caught in the middle. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy, Endangered species
Plants may store much more carbon
A new study in Nature says that the global uptake of carbon by land plants may be up to 45 per cent more than previously thought. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
EPA pulls secondhand smoke trick on TCE
EPA says in a new assessment that the widely used solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) is carcinogenic to humans by all routes of exposure. But the EPA has simply pulled the same trick on TCE as it did on environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) — a trick that got the EPA’s ETS cancer risk assessment trashed by a federal court. Continue reading
Posted in Trichloroethylene (TCE)
WSJ: A Bird-Brained Prosecution
The Obama administration is prosecuting seven oil and gas companies for the deaths of 28 birds. But what about the wind industry? Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Rogue government: EPA disses its own IG
If EPA IG Arthur Elkins has any self-respect, he’ll resign. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, EPA
Solyndra losing in DOE Solar Decathalon, too
The University of Tennessee team participating in the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathalon is in 15th place among a field of 19 — thanks in part to its pricey Solyndra technology. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Nature: Americans inefficiently happy; Should be more like Costa Ricans
A commentary in Nature suggests that Americans could be happier than they are now with a lot less impact on the Earth — just like Costa Rica. And all we need is some good ol’ central planning. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Prenatal lead exposure increases blood pressure in female offspring?
Epidummyologists may have discovered another non-effect. Continue reading
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Posted in Lead
The Quest: Dan Yergin needs to leave his Cambridge bubble
Pulitzer Prize winner Dan Yergin has a new energy book out called “The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World.” Though I’ve seen it has high as #22 on Amazon.com, that’s way more than it deserves. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
New green job record: $23 million per
And we thought $5 million per green job was a lot. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
The Communist Menu-festo
Now that the left has wrecked and/or captured the energy, financial and health care sectors of our economy, our food chain is the next target. Continue reading
Posted in Food miscellany, Food nannies, The Comrades
A few notes on climate fretting in Massachusetts
Apparently having solved all its real problems, Massachusetts has developed its first climate change adaptation report. After all, sea level is rising (or the land is sinking) by an inch per decade. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
EPA IG: Climate science review deficient
EPA’s endangerment finding was apparently not properly cooked. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, EPA
