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Daily Archives: November 28, 2011
Is it NHTSA’s job to sell us cars?
Why does a NHTSA safety warning come with a sales pitch? Continue reading
Posted in Electric vehicles
Foster: The moral climate
“Climate change is not primarily a moral issue; it is a scientific issue with moral implications, writes Peter Foster. Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change
Lacey: Scientists Behaving Badly
“More nails for the coffin of man-made global warming.” Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change
Climategate 2.0: Greenpeace wants to ‘invest’ in East Anglia
“I’d hope that we could benefit from funding from Greenpeace.” Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Climategate 2.0: Greenpeace hires East Anglia scientists pre-Kyoto
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap? Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change
German enviro minister: CO2 limit for every individual
German political leaders might want to go the extra mile to avoid the authoritarian impulse. Continue reading
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Posted in Green hell
Herbicide spurs reproductive problems in many animals, ‘report’ says
What does Tyrone Hayes do when none of a multitude of studies show that atrazine harms wildlife? Continue reading
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Posted in Atrazine
Climategate 2.0: Jones, Briffa say Mann, hokey stick ‘on dodgy ground’
Phil Jones points out Keith Briffa withheld that criticism from a 1999 article Briffa wrote for Science — in 1999. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Climategate 2.0: Mann bid to be science ‘gatekeeper’ is ‘amazingly arrogant’
Ray Bradley doesn’t think much of Michael Mann being a gatekeeper of scientific knowledge. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Update: Deadly storm strikes Durban as climate talks open
At least one other similar bad storm struck South Africa — in 1928! Continue reading
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Ross: Chemical fear mongering goes into overdrive
Gil Ross on enviro efforts to hijack reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act. Continue reading
Posted in Chemophobia
NHTSA backtracks on Volt safety
“The fundamental tendency of lithium-ion batteries is that they are inherently unstable,” said Jeremy Anwyl, chief executive of car-research firm Edmunds.com.” Continue reading
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Posted in Electric vehicles
Deadly storm strikes Durban as climate talks open
A UN spokesman sorta blames global warming. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Delingpole: Climategate 2.0
James Delingpole on the significance of the Climategate e-mails. Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change
Nature Conservancy buys out Calif. fisherman then goes into fishing business itself
More sleazy non-profit profit-making from the ever-dubious Nature Conservancy? Continue reading
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Posted in Overfishing, The Comrades
Kenny: Climate change ushers in a new age of superstition
“The general prediction is that the COP-17 conference in Durban will not produce any binding agreement on reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Let’s hope this is true,” writes in South Africa’s Business Day. Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change
S. Fred Singer: Durban Climate Conference: The Dream Fades
Things don’t look promising for the perennial climate confab which convenes in Durban, South Africa today. Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change, IPCC
EU raises hurdle, trips climate negotiations
Could it be that the EU is deliberately trying to sink Kyoto II? Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, IPCC
Australian socialists shovel cash at UN
Half a billion dollars gone, just like that, after a decade of no global warming. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, IPCC
