JunkScience.com spotlights and debunks faulty scientific data and analysis used to promote special agendas, such as those of activist groups, personal injury lawyers, regulators, businesses and politicians. http://www.junkscience.com editor@junkscience.com (Barry Hearn) President Bush almost got it right this week when he declined to call on Americans to conserve energy. Sadly, he still seems to think that conservation is a win-win proposition. Worse, so do both major presidential candidates. http://junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080717.html http://junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080717.html junkman@junkscience.com (Steven Milloy) 17 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens launched a media blitz this week to announce his plan for us "to escape the grip of foreign oil." Now he's got himself stuck between a crock and a wind farm. http://junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080710.html http://junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080710.html junkman@junkscience.com (Steven Milloy) 10 Jul 2008 22:25:00 GMT Vicki Lawrence’s 1972 hit, “The night the lights went out in Georgia,” may become the official state song thanks to what passes for justice in the court of Fulton County, GA judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore. http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080703.html http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080703.html junkman@junkscience.com (Steven Milloy) 3 Jul 200823:00:00 GMT NASA’s James Hansen tried this week to surf the 20th anniversary of his famous congressional testimony that launched global warming hysteria. Apparently not wanting to be left out of the green hoopla, John McCain tried to catch Hansen’s wave. Both wiped out with embarrassing proposals. http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080626.html http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080626.html junkman@junkscience.com (Steven Milloy) 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Al Gore imagines that future poets will be singing his praises 1,000 years from now. In the meantime back on Planet Earth, he may have to settle for the slings and arrows that he deserves for his epic hypocrisy. http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080619.html http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080619.html junkman@junkscience.com (Steven Milloy) 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT Four-plus dollar gasoline is forcing Americans to realize that increased domestic oil production is needed to meet our ever-growing demand for affordable gasoline. http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080612.html http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080612.html junkman@junkscience.com (Steven Milloy) 12 Jun 2008 21:00:00 GMT In Charles Krauthammer's May 30 must-read column, "Carbon Chastity," he rightly lambastes environmentalists as resurrected communists/socialists who have latched on to the environment and climate change as a means to advance their anti-people social agenda. http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080605.html http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080605.html junkman@junkscience.com (Steven Milloy) 5 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT The green blitzkrieg hit the ExxonMobil annual shareholder meeting this week. The meeting featured 17 shareholder proposals, the vast majority of which were filed by left-leaning "investors" seeking, in one way or another, to pressure company management into implementing the green agenda. http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080529.html http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080529.html junkman@junkscience.com (Steven Milloy) 29 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT There’s a new global warming consensus in town. It’s too bad the once-level-headed, but now chicken-hearted Bush Administration has already skedaddled, perhaps leaving our standard of living at the mercy of Barack Obama and his high regard for the international hate-America crowd. http://junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080522.html http://junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080522.html junkman@junkscience.com (Steven Milloy) 23 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT In global warming and climate studies, figures are often given in Watts per meter squared (Wm-2) -- what does that mean? Surface warming ratios are variously cited as 0.1 (C) per Wm-2 forcing through 1.0 (C) per Wm-2 -- and most everything in between -- which ones make sense? Are climate models programmed with reasonable assumptions on cause and effect? How is the world actually responding? Have claims of "the smoking gun for global warming" been validated? We'll try to sort it all out for you. http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/What_Watt.htm http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/What_Watt.htm editor@junkscience.com (JunkScience.com) 27 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT In this document we find climate models and long-term climate data unhelpful in determining the planet's thermal response to elevated greenhouse gas levels. Annual temperature change and a modern and well-documented event provide evidence against greenhouse "feedback mechanisms" leading to uncontrolled and catastrophic warming, indicating Earth is not at a critical temperature threshold. http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/Greenhouse_not_a_problem.htm http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/Greenhouse_not_a_problem.htm editor@junkscience.com (JunkScience.com) 16 Oct 2006 07:40:00 GMT Summary: Almost ignored by the media, the Royal Society has quietly published what may prove to be the most significant paper on Earth's climate in decades. Here we present background on the paper and explore some of its ramifications. http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/Cosmic_rays_and_climate.htm http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/Cosmic_rays_and_climate.htm junkman@junkscience.com (Steven Milloy) 13 Oct 2006 05:00:00 GMT False Alarm: A Report on the Center for Science in the Public Interest, 1971-2006 is the most comprehensive report ever about the food and beverage scares launched and/or promoted by the advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest. http://www.junkscience.com/falsealarm.htm http://www.junkscience.com/falsealarm.htm junkman@junkscience.com (Steven Milloy) 15 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT Global warming hysteric Ross Gelbspan continues to have difficulty dealing with the fact that he has never won a Pulitzer Prize. http://www.junkscience.com/Gelbspan060808.htm http://www.junkscience.com/Gelbspan060808.htm junkman@junkscience.com (Steven Milloy) 8 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is apparently trying to position California as a leader in the movement to silence scientific debate. http://www.junkscience.com/Skeptics_on_trial.htm http://www.junkscience.com/Skeptics_on_trial.htm junkman@junkscience.com (Steven Milloy) 1 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT Greenhouse, global warming - and some facts http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/ http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/index.htm editor@junkscience.com (JunkScience.com) 21 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT In order to evaluate claims of global warming and enhanced greenhouse we need to examine estimates of global temperature and trends. As we gain an idea of the change involved we can attempt to quantify what portion of that change may be driven by other changes in the system. Did human activity cause all, part or none of the observed change? Let's see what we can work out: http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/cause.htm http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/cause.htm editor@junkscience.com (JunkScience.com) 5 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT