“An unusually hot melting season in 2010 accelerated ice loss in southern Greenland by 100 billion tons – and large portions of the island’s bedrock rose an additional quarter of an inch in response.” Continue reading
Daily Archives: December 9, 2011
House year-end bill wastes year of hearings, effort
Game, set and match to Lisa Jackson. Continue reading
Posted in 112th Congress, EPA
DC: Gingrich’s environmental proposals include altering climate with giant mirrors
Gingrich suggested building “a large array of mirrors [that] could affect the earth’s climate, ” to extend farmers’ growing season. Continue reading
Posted in Battle of 2012, Climate Change
Noonan on Gingrich: ‘A human hand grenade’
Peggy Noonan’s column on Newt Gingrich in today’s Wall Street Journal contains her most important thought — ever. Continue reading
Posted in Battle of 2012
Gingrich Cosponsored 1989 Climate Change Bill With Pelosi
“Alongside Pelosi, several other pro-choice advocates sponsored the bill [which included population control measures], including John Conyers, Barbara Boxer, Barney Frank, and Chuck Schumer.” Continue reading
Posted in Battle of 2012, Climate Change
Food police cause food poisoning?
Did the food police cause 77 people to become ill from consuming Nestle ready-to-bake cookie dough in 2009? Continue reading
Posted in Food nannies, Food poisoning
WSJ’s Bussey: An Inevitable Keystone Pipeline
“Keystone XL, or a similar pipeline and set of worries, isn’t just inevitable. It’s something we should accept to prevent worse alternatives from coming to pass.” Continue reading
Posted in Oil and gas
EID: Six Questions for EPA on Pavillion
Energy-in-Depth offers its view on EPA linking fracking with groundwater contamination in Wyoming. Continue reading
Posted in Fracking
WSJ: More Ninth Circuit Mayhem
A ruling by the whacky Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals would allow enviros to shut down logging by requiring road stormwater run-off to be managed by logging-stopping permitting rather than logging-enabling “best practices.” Continue reading
Posted in Logging
Stern: Gonzo future for carbon on corporate books
Nicholas Stern frets about the fossil fuel reserves listed on corporate balance sheets. Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change
Buffett goes scavenging in solar
“In a lot of ways, this is classic Warren Buffett.” Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Green: 20 Most Unscientific Scares
The Institute of Public Afairs’ Dr Kesten Green lists the 20 most unscientific scares. Continue reading
Posted in Odds and ends
Gingrich climate book coming post-election
This looks scary. Continue reading
Posted in Battle of 2012
Durban last day doom & gloom
Before we get to the obligatory ‘after the last hour’ dramatically-done ‘saving-the-planet’ non-deal to all party again next year in Qatar, here’s a brief last morning wrap: Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, IPCC
Climate Depot: UN Climate Draft Text Demands ‘New International Climate Court’ to compel reparations for ‘climate debt
UN Draft Text Demands: The West will pay ‘climate debt’ because of its ‘historical responsibility’ for causing ‘global warming’ — UN seeks end to wars to ‘protect the climate system Continue reading
Posted in IPCC
UK: Results of publicly funded research will be open access
Hopefully that means data and methodology too, ‘results’ are generally made public. Continue reading
Posted in Education, Media, Odds and ends
A Plot To Undermine The Right To Bear Arms
Newly obtained documents show that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives discussed using its covert operation Fast and Furious to argue for new rules about gun sales. We told you so. Continue reading
Posted in Odds and ends
Sensible breast cancer/pollution report from LA Times
It won’t please the chemical cranks but it is good to see Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Breast cancer, Chemophobia, Health, Obesity
What’s an ‘eco’ label worth? Likely nothing
Not to the environment, anyway Continue reading
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Posted in Greenwashing
Not a grain of truth in sneaky Greenpeace tactics
More Greenpeace greenmail – based on a lie, as always Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Green hell
