Month: September 2013

The social cost of carbon is zero — as an open and transparent process would demonstrate. Continue reading White House urged to developed ‘social cost of carbon’ figure in an open, transparent process

James Delingpole writes at the Telegraph: Continue reading Arctic ice melt IS a problem because Right-wing newspapers smell, explains Guardian climate ‘expert’

“Please sir, I want some more.” Continue reading Oliver Twist-ing in the Wind: UK offshore wind needs more subsidies, says energy minister

Steve Hayward writes at Power Line: Continue reading Australia’s U-Turn: Is Germany next?

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

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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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!