Daily Archives: January 19, 2012

Gross: Obama campaigns on Keystone XL rejection

Obama kills jobs and then fundraises of the corpses. Continue reading

Murdock: Romney runs hot and cold on global warming

“Willard Mitt Romney these days could not be more explicit about abandoning President Barack Obama’s carbon-dioxide restrictions.” Continue reading

PCE in drinking water caused mental illness in Cape Cod-ers?

We went crazy just reading this study… Continue reading

Let us inject facts into ‘Seismicity’

“What’s unfortunate is that some folks are attempting to use [recent seismic events in Ohio] as a justification for stopping oil and natural gas development in Ohio — kind of like trying to argue that the auto industry should be shut down just because a scrap tire dump caught fire somewhere.” Continue reading

Burnett: Plastic Bag Bans Hurt Shoppers, Retailers and Workers

By H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.
January 19, 2012, Exclusive for JunkScience.com

A small but increasing number of cities are in a frenzy to ban plastic shopping bags. More than two dozen cities nationwide have either banned plastic grocery bags (and in some cases, paper bags) entirely, or have imposed a fee for using them in order to encourage the use of reusable bags. However, such policies have hidden costs few seem to recognize. Continue reading

2010-2011 Cooling Caused Arctic Ozone Depletion

Warming bad. Cooling bad. Everything bad — except alarmist junk science. Continue reading

Nannying: Ban on fast-food ads reduced consumption of junk food, says study

An outright ban is recommended as the “most effective policy tool.” Continue reading

Hansen admits: ‘Global temperature in 2011 was lower than in 1998′

Good thing we had all that manmade CO2 to keep us warm. Continue reading

Obama Commerce Dept. to investigate wind tower dumping

Isn’t any low-wage-made import from China/Vietnam essentially “dumping”? Continue reading

Enviros aim to stop exporting of coal, LNG via Oregon port

A port spokesman called many of the environmental claims “speculative, emotional and sensational.” Continue reading

Enviros: ‘Babies are born pre-polluted with dioxin’

And Ben & Jerry’s ice cream comes pre-packaged with dioxin. Continue reading

Study: Dope-use may make you smarter

The dangers of statistics. Continue reading

Poll: Ohioans Want Benefits of Fracking for Gas Without Earthquakes

Some risk is part of life. Why allow an occasional minor earth rumble to stop jobs and economic growth? Continue reading

New York state RINO embraces class warfare in introducing fracking moratorium

Because “…it’s the billionaires and the gazillionaires that have all the access.” Continue reading

Obama EPA frets issuing pre-election cap-and-trade power plant regulations

Obama can’t do cap-and-trade before the election. But afterwards, win or lose… Continue reading

Trumpeter Swans: Another Climate Change Winner

Good news for yet another bird species. Continue reading

China frets ‘grim’ climate change risks

But not enough to cut emissions. Continue reading

War-Climate Change Link Disarmed

“We need to move beyond the idea that conflict is the inevitable result of climate-driven resource scarcity.” Continue reading

Flashback: Perry says EPA ‘a cemetery for jobs’

Rick Perry dropped out of the race today, but he did leave us with this memorable video clip. Continue reading

EPA pushed State Dept. to consider tar sands CO2 emissions for Keystone XL decision

A rational that could be used to shutdown any fossil fuel development project. Continue reading