Berkeley climate clown Richard Muller and befuddled Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels write in today’s Wall Street Journal [Our comments in bold brackets]: Continue reading Odd (and Not-too-Bright) Couple: Richard Muller & Mitch Daniels push nat gas by way of climate alarmism
Month: November 2012
Driessen: The coming environmental battlegrounds
“When American voters re-elected President Obama, they also returned his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Interior and Energy departments and wide-ranging agenda for “fundamentally transforming” our nation.” [Washington Times]
Browner calls for federal fracking regulations
“Right now states are responsible for overseeing fracking. That means there could be 20 to 30 different state regulations imposed on fracking businesses. Why not develop one set of national requirements based on the best available science and technology and leave the oversight and enforcement up to the states?” [New York Times]
Coal CEO prays for America; Outlines hardships to come for energy
“Robert E. Murray, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Murray Energy Corp., delivered this prayer and message to approximately 50 staff members on Wednesday afternoon.” [Wheeling Intelligencer]
Trzupek: EPA witch hunts on taxpayer dime
“Indeed, as we’ve seen in case after case, this is the EPA’s new approach: Forget about risk evaluation because there is no risk so small that it’s not worth spending huge amounts of public and private dollars to lessen just a little more. That’s not science, folks, nor is it sound public policy. It’s simply a witch hunt, and now that the president has been re-elected, we’re going to have so many more of them that it would make 17th-century Puritans living in Salem blush.” [Rich Trzupek, Washington Times]
HSBC: Obama May Levy Carbon Tax to Cut U.S. Deficit, HSBC Says
“Barack Obama may consider introducing a tax on carbon emissions to help cut the U.S. budget deficit after winning a second term as president, according to HSBC Holdings Plc.” [Bloomberg]
HSBC must think that we live in a dictatorship.
Shock: McCain (2008) Beat Romney and Obama!
It’s hard to believe that John McCain got more votes in 2008 than Mitt Romney did in 2012. McCain 2008 may also have beaten Obama 2012. Continue reading Shock: McCain (2008) Beat Romney and Obama!
WashPost Blog: Obama finally talks climate change. But what will he do about it?
“Yet doing anything bigger on climate change will likely require working with a Republican Congress.” [WashPost WonkBlog]
HuffPost: Obama Victory, Sandy Give Environmental Groups Hopes For Climate Change Action
In his victory address early Wednesday morning, Obama said “We want our children to live in an America … that isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.” [Huffington Post]
WashTimes: Climate-change crybabies
“Mr. Mann’s lawsuit ought to be thrown out.” [Washington Times]
Naomi Klein: Communism to save windmills
“[A truly populist agenda] also means not just more renewable power but democratic community control over those projects.” [The Nation]
FLASHBACK: Naomi Klein: ‘If You Take Climate Change Seriously, You Have to Throw Out the Free-Market Playbook’
FLASHBACK: Naomi Klein admits: Greens are reds
EHP refuses to investigate EPA researcher misconduct
Environmental Health Perspectives editor Hugh Tilson today refused to investigate EPA researchers for scientific misconduct, offering instead to handle the matter as a mere “letter to the editor.”
Last week we transmitted to Tilson prima facie evidence that EPA researchers Andrew Ghio, Wayne Cascio and Martha Sue Carraway committed researcher misconduct by omitting material information from a September 2011 study.
There so far is no “good faith” dispute of the facts we presented. Allowing Ghio/Cascio/Carraway to escape investigation/prosecution by simply responding to a letter (likely in an obfuscatory manner) is unacceptable.