The bottom line is: we won’t starve; pesticides are our friend; the bees will return; the cause is most assuredly ‘all natural’ and the scaremongers will look for another reason to condemn humanity. Continue reading
Daily Archives: January 10, 2012
Sierra Club takes coal fight to college basketball
“The Sierra Club Clean Energy Match-Ups are meant to connect sports to the idea that dirty and dangerous on campus coal plants need to be replaced by clean and affordable solutions for the health of the players and the students.” Continue reading
Posted in Coal
Pose: Christie signs one-year fracking ban in New Jersey
Chris Christie poses on fracking. Continue reading
Posted in Fracking
TransCanada: Keystone XL creates 20,000 jobs
“Keystone XL has the capacity to deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day to U.S. refineries in Cushing, Oklahoma and the Gulf of Mexico.” Continue reading
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Posted in Oil and gas
Hayhoe now whining to Canadians
Please pass her a tissue made from Canada’s “Boreal” forests. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Deadly cantaloupe listeria outbreak blamed on non-chlorinated wash
The enviro war against chlorine claims more victims. Continue reading
Posted in Chemophobia, Chlorine, Food poisoning
Obama addresses EPA employees
The droner-in-chief thanks EPA staff with banalities. Continue reading
Posted in EPA
Mary Nichols a ‘Leader Who Gets Things Done’?
Oughtn’t Rolling Stone wait to see how California’s climate pioneering works out before handing out plaudits? Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, The Comrades
Van Jones a ‘Leader Who Gets Things Done’?
Rolling Stone embraces the prizes-for-everyone culture. Continue reading
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Posted in The Comrades
Solar-powered light bulbs = Hope?
We’ve checked it out. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Light bulbs
Global Warming Helps Moves Doomsday Clock One Minute Closer to Midnight
“It is five minutes to midnight. Two years ago, it appeared that world leaders might address the truly global threats that we face. In many cases, that trend has not continued or been reversed. For that reason, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is moving the clock hand one minute closer to midnight, back to its time in 2007.” Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Examiner: Constitutional right of due process at stake in EPA case
“Worst of all, EPA claimed in federal district and appellate courts that respecting the couple’s due process rights by granting them judicial review of the order would be a “disservice” to the agency.” Continue reading
Posted in Land use
Stinkbugs rule as government, pesticide industry dither
Stink bugs have spread to 36 states — so where are the insecticides? Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Pesticides
Report: Fukushima nuclear cleanup could create its own environmental disaster
How clean is clean? Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear power, Radiation, Toxic waste sites
Elk: Global warming made us do it
The elk are overeating mountainous plants because of manmade global warming, says a new study in Nature Climate Change. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Endangered species
Canadian Minister Tells Enviros to F**k Off on Oilsands Obstructionism
That’s Ron Bailey’s take on a “no holds barred” open letter from the Natural Resources Canada minister Joe Oliver. Continue reading
Posted in Oil and gas
Mann book on hokey stick due in March
Who will play Mann in the movie? Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Mann Alert!
There will be a Milwaukee siting of Mann on March 8. Ed Begley, Jr. too! Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change
The Idsos: A Perversion of Science?
“In a front-page article in the 20 December 2011 issue of EOS, entitled “What Do U.S. Students Know About Climate Change,” Kevin M. Theissen makes some egregious statements that are not in harmony with basic principles that should be embraced by true practitioners of science.” Continue reading
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Posted in Climate Change
