Month: April 2014

ACSH thanks! Report is EPA has downgraded BPA, Phthalates

I think this is important.
What is going on at EPA?
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Marita takes some Swings at bad Policy and Money Pits

Thanks Marita, for reminding us of the Production Tax Credit, which along with mandates on energy portfolios, created the wind boondoggle, even in oil production places like Texas.
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Driessen on EPA Misconduct Where do We Start

Thanks Paul for this essay, I assume soon to be up on Townhall
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Bjorn points out the Danger of Misdirection of Resources

This is what his Copenhagen Consensus project is all about .
Too bad people don’t pay attention like Lomborg does, to the Bastiat warming about unintended consequences.
Of course if people die or suffer because of crazy green projects it won’t be counted, since official counts are controlled by the arrogant elites who know how to cheat.
Projected increases in displacement or deaths due to warming, no warming, no deaths? Well retool and ignore the failed predictions.
One can do that if in control of public policy and the media academic bully boy complex.
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/bj-rn-lomborg-says-that-the-un-climate-panel-s-latest-report-tells-a-story-that-politicians-would-prefer-to-ignore

Count on the Climate Nitwits at the Guardian

Of course where the anxious journalists at the Guardian be without the well paid junk scientists at the Met Office?
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Indur Goklany is a Research Giant

I admire Indur Goklany, who is my go to guy on human effects and catastrophic environmental events.
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Dalrymple on Obesity–marvelous

Last week I told you about a British Medical Journal article on the benefits of barriatric surgery over behavior mod, the current operations of preference are Roux en Y with gastric reduction (one helluva surgery), sleeves (simpler) and such.
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Joyce Parker sends me a Killer report on food fetishists

This is perfect–ooooooooh no honey, that’s Puerto Rican peanut butter, says the little Madison Wisconsin prig. Madison is a boutique and clueless little leftist enclave. They do think they are special in Madison, of course.
http://nypost.com/2014/04/19/the-tyranny-of-the-organic-mommy-mafia/

BLM land grab in Nevada–more to consider?

This is too much for a poor emergency physician’s head–
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Commenter to JKScience get's it right on Common Core

I am indebted to Mr. Traina, a commenter on the Common Core junk curriculum who has the info down good.
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Even Deserts are Carbon sinks–DUH

Some are in a tizzy that carbon dioxide stimulation would increase carbon sink effect in arid desert.
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EPA fumbles around and then Punts

Charles Battig MD follows up on a little problem–the dog ate the EPA research.
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