Did NOAA cheat on its 2011 hurricane forecast to beat two fifth graders? [National Center for Public Policy Research]
Month: November 2012
Miss. solar firm goes bust; Backed by Gov. Haley Barbour with $26MM of taxpayer money
When will Republicans learn that when you lie down with dogs…
Solar firm that got $26M in Miss. loans is closing… FLASHBACK to April 2010: Barbour “delighted” Twin Creeks Technologies picked Mississippi… CEO said “The State of Mississippi and the Governor’s office have been extremely helpful in driving the agreement to closure in record time…”
AAA urges EPA to halt approval of E15 for vehicles
“AAA, the nation’s largest travel organization, on Friday urged the Obama administration to halt the sale of E15 — a new fuel with a higher blend of ethanol — because of possible engine damage to most vehicles on the nation’s roads.” [Detroit News]
Challenge issued to the University of Montana's Curtis Noonan
Show us a body, dude. Put up or shut up. Continue reading Challenge issued to the University of Montana's Curtis Noonan
Sen. Whitehouse: Deniers tolerated too long
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is going to need an awfully large concentration camp for all of us. Continue reading Sen. Whitehouse: Deniers tolerated too long
EPA Fines School Bus Co. For Diesel Idling; Who will fine EPA for diesel idling?
So it’s not okay for school buses to idle, but EPA can idle a truck and pump its diesel exhaust into the lungs of elderly people?
From the Danbury Daily Voice:
Idling diesel engines emit pollutants, which can cause or aggravate a variety of health problems, including asthma and other respiratory diseases, and the fine particles in diesel exhaust are a likely human carcinogen,” the EPA said in the statement. “Diesel exhaust not only contributes to areawide air quality problems, but more direct exposure can cause lightheadedness, nausea, sore throat, coughing and other symptoms.
Eugene Robinson admits U.S. not a climate threat
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson has bowed to reality (as calculated here by JunkScience.com). Robinson writes today, “Americans are not the big problem…” [Washington Post]
'Clean Energy' Dead-Ender: Vinod Khosla
We’d bet the only reason that one of Khosla’s funds is “up 30% since inception in 2009” is because CalPERS is afraid to value the investment at its real worth. [New York Times]
Climate alarmist utility CEO forced out by regulators
Duke Energy CEO and USCAP co-founder Jim Rogers will get to spend more time with the grandchildren who taught him about the dangers of global warming. [Indiana Business Journal]
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Bizarre ‘Fox Lies’ video: Alleged “Climate-Denying O’Reilly Fan” Now Believes Global Warming is Real
A case study on what happens when somebody makes an assertion about a Fox News personality without doing some elemental research into what he actually says or believes. Continue reading Bizarre ‘Fox Lies’ video: Alleged “Climate-Denying O’Reilly Fan” Now Believes Global Warming is Real
PopSci: 7 Gifts For The Climate Change Denier In Your Life
Clever idea… but that’s where PopSci’s cleverness ends. [Popular Science]
We have only one gift suggestion for the alarmist in your life… Continue reading PopSci: 7 Gifts For The Climate Change Denier In Your Life
Washington state confronts ocean acidification
“Increasingly corrosive waters” affecting oyster farming? But the daily pH variation in tidal areas is naturally large. Continue reading Washington state confronts ocean acidification