Cutting back on salt may cause you to eat more

WCHS (Charleston, WV) reports: Continue reading Cutting back on salt may cause you to eat more

Did global warming cause a Florida dengue outbreak — the Bill McKibben-Steve Milloy Twitter debate

We report, you decide. Continue reading Did global warming cause a Florida dengue outbreak — the Bill McKibben-Steve Milloy Twitter debate

Bring it on: Nanny Bloomberg, billionaire enviro Steyer, Hank ‘Mr. TARP’ Paulson to launch global warming push

Mike Bloomberg and Tom Steyer are well-known billionaire activists. Beyond the TARP fiasco, you may remember that Steve Milloy’s Free Enterprise Action Fund uncovered self-dealing by enviro Hank Paulson while he was chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs.

The Hill reports:

Outgoing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will launch a “major bipartisan initiative on climate change” in October with billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer and George W. Bush-era Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, according to a published report.

The plan is mentioned in a new profile of Steyer and his work against the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline in The New Yorker.

Bloomberg has made climate a priority with efforts including a major grant to the Sierra Club’s anti-coal plant work and plans to strengthen New York City’s defenses against powerful storms.

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Frackers’ “Eat Me Last” Gambit: Our CO2 is part of the solution to global warming!

The Guardian reports on UK energy and climate minister Ed Davey’s lame effort to espouse the fracking industry’s “Our CO2 is OK” line: Continue reading Frackers’ “Eat Me Last” Gambit: Our CO2 is part of the solution to global warming!

Richard Windsor’s $40K official portrait spurs EGO Act banning taxpayer funding — ‘Lisa Jackson can borrow my camera for free’

FoxNews.com reports: Continue reading Richard Windsor’s $40K official portrait spurs EGO Act banning taxpayer funding — ‘Lisa Jackson can borrow my camera for free’

WV paper: EPA Officials Should Clean Up Own Act

The Wheeling Intelligencer editorializes: Continue reading WV paper: EPA Officials Should Clean Up Own Act

Richard Windsor Lawyer: ‘She has engaged in no wrongdoing of any kind’

Politico reports on the appearance of Richard Windsor (aka Lisa Jackson) before the House Oversight and Government Committee: Continue reading Richard Windsor Lawyer: ‘She has engaged in no wrongdoing of any kind’

WaPo: ‘Get used’ to NOAA junk science — wreck the economy while experts ‘sort out’ weather event attribution

About last week’s NOAA report claiming human fingerprints on “extreme” weather events, the Washington Post editorializes: Continue reading WaPo: ‘Get used’ to NOAA junk science — wreck the economy while experts ‘sort out’ weather event attribution