A paper published this week in the journal Climate of the Past analyzes an “unprecedentally large network of temperature…proxy records” [a total of 120] and concludes that warming of the 20th century was “within the range of natural variability over the last 12 centuries.” Continue reading
Daily Archives: February 7, 2012
Now they tell us: EPA admits not addressing local grid reliability problems in mercury rule
“EPA did not address localized reliability challenges…” Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, EPA, Mercury
GOP to spar with EPA over mercury rules
“Republicans will take aim Wednesday at new national standards to limit mercury and other toxic air pollution from power plants.” Continue reading
Posted in 112th Congress, Air pollution, EPA
Fox Tests Volt, Runs Out Of Juice In Lincoln Tunnel
“GM noted that Fox has issues with the Volt. They give Eric Bolling a Chevy Volt for a week. And this is what GM receives in return. Ingrates.” Continue reading
Posted in Electric vehicles
Former EPA staffer novel-izes about the ‘cruel realities of environmental racism’
Check the media release for this new novel by a former EPA staffer. Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Justice
Multi-billion dollar EPA air rule based on ‘belief’
The EPA air chief subtly admits the agency’s junk science? Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, EPA
Singer does Houston: ‘The people who did the IPCC reports were essentially crooks’
“Carbon dioxide is harmless. Carbon dioxide is in our lungs. It doesn’t hurt a thing. All of these efforts are counterproductive, expensive and hurt our economy and kill jobs.” Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Sierra Club seeks to block gas export facility
Go on, take the money and run. Continue reading
Posted in Oil and gas
CDC: Food Categories Contributing the Most to Sodium Consumption — United States, 2007–2008
The junk science-flavored anti-salt crusade continues. Continue reading
Posted in Salt
Santorum: I never believed global warming ‘hoax’
Luvin’ it. Continue reading
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Posted in Battle of 2012
Air pollution not correlated with asthma hospitalizations, reports new JunkScience.com study
This report is an update and extension of our original October 2011 research and report about air quality and hospital admissions for asthma in Los Angeles. Our data now cover the period 2010-2011. Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution
Report: Energy Costs Twice as Much for Half of U.S. Households
And EPA is pushing costs higher. Continue reading
Posted in EPA
Report: Engines idling in New York despite law
“The real challenge here is that in the good times everybody is in favor of environmental stuff, and when the times get tougher, it’s probably the first thing to be jettisoned.” Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution
Report: Flares from Marcellus Shale wells attracting plenty of attention
“It’s safer to have the gas burn.” Continue reading
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Posted in Fracking
Fed. court to decide whether SeaWorld killer whales are slaves
“This is the first time a court has ever considered whether the 13th Amendment applies to the [orcas].” Continue reading
Posted in Animal rights
Michael Mann maligns skeptics in UVa talk
Michael Mann portrays skeptics as not believing in the greenhouse effect last Friday at the University of Virginia. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Jacobson: Securing public health forever with clean energy?
From his Stanford ivory tower, engineering professor Mark Jacobson urges that we give up fossil fuels for…what? Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Atrazine: The Frog of War
Mother Jones profiles Berkeley junk scientist Tyrone Hayes. Continue reading
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Posted in Atrazine, Pesticides
LCV Scorecard: ‘Most anti-environmental session of House in history’
Speaking on behalf of the anti-enviromentalist movement, we are on the ascendancy. Continue reading
Posted in 112th Congress
