We have been subsidizing useless, low-density power sources for decades and received no return value, just increased costs. Now according to Reuters 3 of Europe’s “top renewable energy companies” are the latest “victims” Continue reading
Daily Archives: November 14, 2011
Collapsing prices and massive oversupply, why subsidize “renewables”?
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Posted in Clean energy
Fears of energy resource depletion as old as the temperature record
Recently there has been something of a resurgence in “peak oil” muttering. This and fears of catastrophic global warming are used as excuses to claim a need to “wean society off its oil addiction”. Daniel Yergin highlights another interesting tie between energy resource “depletion” and temperature measures Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change, Coal, Oil and gas
RIP Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski
Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski died Saturday while undergoing surgery in Poland. He was 84. An atmospheric chemist, radiation specialist, and medical doctor, Dr. Jaworowski was a frequent contributor to 21st Century Science & Technology and to EIR. Dr. Jaworowski fought fearlessly for the truth, with major original contributions on subjects including the Chernobyl radiation hysteria, the linear no-threshold theory, and global warming, and weathered every attack for his views with courage and equanimity. Continue reading
Posted in From the Publisher & Editor
Muller flip-flops again?
Is Richard Muller climatically bipolar? Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Twin-study shows occupational chemical worker risk of Parkinson’s?
Well, not really. Continue reading
Radon causes skin cancer?
Can’t wait to buy anti-radon skin protection products. Continue reading
Posted in Radiation
Wastewater treatment fosters antibiotic resistance?
Antibiotic resistance hysteria hits water treatment. Continue reading
Posted in Pharmaceuticals
UK air: ‘State-sanctioned mass poisoning’?
We have successfully exported air pollution junk science. Continue reading
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Posted in Air pollution
Mayo Clinic study confirms smoking ban efficacy?
The smoking ban-heart attack scam continues. Continue reading
Posted in Tobacco
EU adopts guidelines on airport body scanners
Privacy is a good reason to question the use of airport scanners; cancer risk is a bogus one. Continue reading
Posted in Radiation
New book: 80% of DOE loans to Obama contributors
Check out this new book from Hoover Institution fellow Peter Schweizer. Continue reading
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Posted in Clean energy
WashPost: Before Solyndra, a long history of failed government energy projects
“Perhaps the federal government is, as former Obama economic adviser Lawrence Summers put it, “a crappy VC,” or venture capitalist.” Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change
WashPost embraces ‘broken window’ economics
Robbing Peter to pay Paul is a crime, not a successful economic policy. Continue reading
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Posted in Air pollution, Clean energy
Daily Caller Interview: Lord Monckton
It’s always good to hear from Lord Monckton. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Green Bank Strategy: Strand fossil fuel assets
London’s HSBC bank suggests an economically suicidal way to slow carbon emissions without laws and treaties. Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change
Must-see video: Denial Tango
A pretty funny song about us deniers from down under. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
China to get tar sands oil?
Even the Washington Post understands that Keystone XL opponents accomplished nothing for the environment. Continue reading
Posted in Oil and gas
Romney’s EPA administrator?
We’ve joked about a President Mitt Romney picking Obama EPA air chief Gina McCarthy as his EPA administrator. Joking aside, Romney’s “most likely” EPA administrator is somewhat worrisome. Continue reading
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Posted in Battle of 2012
Politico: EPA to be GOP target in 2012
That’s because: “American jobs have been Obama EPA target since 2009″. Continue reading
Posted in Battle of 2012
Hybrids: Another greenwash-out?
Sales of hybrids are in “free fall.” Continue reading
Posted in Electric vehicles
