Daily Archives: November 4, 2011

Jackson on purchasing science and peer review

Lisa Jackson has double-standards when it comes to paying for science and standards of view. Continue reading

Jackson says effort to get Michael Mann’s e-mails ‘criminal’

She may not have called Conrgessional GOP “jack-booted thugs”, but Lisa Jackson did call the America Tradition Institute’s effort to get Climategater Michael Mann’s e-mails through the Freedom of Information Act “criminal.” Continue reading

Jackson misleads on Muller, Climategate

Lisa Jackson may not have said that Congressional GOP were jack-booted thugs, but she still spewed newsworthy falsehoods to Berkeley students. Continue reading

Update: Lisa Jackson and ‘jack-booted thugs’ corrected by Greenwire

Greenwire erred in reporting that Lisa Jackson described Congressional Republicans as “jack-booted thugs.” Continue reading

Shocker — or maybe not: Megadroughts occured before industrialization

Tree rings strike a blow against climate alarmism. Continue reading

More Lisa Jackson: ‘Not hyperbole’

More from Lisa Jackson’s talk at Berkeley yesterday. Continue reading

EPA chief: Congressional GOP are ‘jack-booted thugs’

Lisa Jackson takes trash-talking to a new level for a senior government official. [Note: This entry was based on an erroneous Greenwire report that has since been corrected.] Continue reading

Paying Mother Nature for services rendered?

Do we get to sue her when she screws up? Continue reading

More Wozniak: Magical energy

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak called for “outside-the-box” thinking at a meeting of the American Wind Energy Association — way outside the box. Continue reading

iBlather: Wozniak slams coal

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak underappreciates the extent to which coal makes Apple technology and his personal fortune possible. Continue reading

Monster growth in CO2 emissions — or monster omission?

Critical information was omitted from the recent Associated Press headline about “monster” growth in global CO2 emissions in 2010 and how it was much worse than the IPCC or anyone thought. Continue reading

Hohhot! — and that’s not a typo

It’s why no rational person ought to worry about their carbon footprint. Continue reading

House Committee passes cost-benefit requirement for agency rules

The Regulatory Accountability Act requires agencies to assess the costs and benefits of regulatory alternatives and, in most cases, to adopt the least-costly alternative to achieve the regulatory objectives of Congress. Continue reading

House, States slam EPA on Chesapeake Bay

EPA refuses to conduct a cost-benefit analysis for its Bay water quality targets. Continue reading

EPA-loving RINO: Sen. Lamar Alexander

Lamar Alexander says he won’t vote to overturn EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. Continue reading

Ireland Warming

Ireland’s environment minister abandons climate change legislation but denies being a denier. Continue reading

NYTimes on Muller: Damn the torpedoes

The New York Times editors flaunt their climate confusion. Continue reading

Bloomberg: GOP candidates must believe in global warming

Our litmus test is the opposite. Continue reading

Should planet earth have rights alongside and equal to human rights?

I’m not sure how planet earth managed to request legal counsel but it must have done since Polly Higgins is described as “The lawyer for Planet Earth”. Anyway, equal rights for earth would extend to trees, grass, fish, animals, bugs, dirt, rocks and the air. In other words everything that makes up this world we live on would be legally on par with humans. Art Horn explains: Continue reading

Shock! Burning methane is less carbon-intensive than burning coal

For reasons which are not clear this is allegedly contentious. Possibly because greenies are against any development and artesian-dependent graziers are not difficult to worry about their water supplies coal-seam gas (CSG) and fracking are under attack in Australia: Continue reading