Month: February 2013

Plus the state wants to spend $300-$800 million on a replacement plan. Continue reading Indian Point nuke plant shutdown would cost 3,000 jobs & $75 million in lost yearly property taxes

Borenstein tries to support his global warming-caused “less snow, more blizzards” hypothesis. Continue reading Seth Borenstein: DC snowfall history ‘fitting nicely with my story’

“”You could shut down oil sands production tomorrow and it would have absolutely no measurable impact on climate change.” Continue reading Keystone XL will have ‘no impact on climate change’, TransCanada boss says

“Japan posted a record 1.63 trillion yen ($17.4 billion) trade deficit in January as rebounding exports lagged behind surging imports of crude oil and gas due to rising prices and the weakening yen.” Continue reading Fossil fuel imports drive Japanese trade deficit

“Are my critique and the request to step down related?” Continue reading Pielke Jr. dumped from journal because of critique of ‘shoddy paper’?

Tesla is happy that the NYTimes public editor has taken John Broder to the woodshed. Continue reading Tesla’s gets last laugh in the NYTimes test drive debacle?

From Chris Horner via Twitter: “”Nuremburg-style trials” dude upset, apparently NYT journo hasn’t “crossed over into advocacy” (how does one tell?)” Continue reading Grist: The virtues of being unreasonable on Keystone

“The state’s shale gas production doubled between 2011 and 2012, even as the number of rigs drilling new wells in Pennsylvania dropped in response to lower gas prices and companies migrating to more lucrative oil shales in other states.” Continue reading PA Marcellus topped 2 trillion cubic feet of gas in 2012

“Australia’s landscape soaked up a third of national carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels over the past two decades, a CSIRO assessment has found.” Continue reading Australia: Plants soaked up a third of greenhouse gases