The rise of cheap natural gas from fracking only reduced coal use by an estimated 16%.
Continue reading Study: Obama ‘war on coal’ responsible for 84% of decline in coal use
Month: November 2016
No, burning less coal isn’t making tuna ‘safer’
The Washington Post reports today:
The problem, however, is that the decline in mercury level in tuna (if true, in the first place) is not due to reductions in coal burning. Continue reading No, burning less coal isn’t making tuna ‘safer’
North Carolina slams EPA’s mad rush of midnight regulations
Read the letter to EPA chief Gina McCarthy from North Carolina Secretary of the Environment, Dr. Don van der Vaart.
Continue reading North Carolina slams EPA’s mad rush of midnight regulations
Logger Resolute responds to Greenpeace bid to dismiss racketeering suit
Resolute’s response to Greenpeace’s motion to dismiss is here as well as declarations from forestry experts in favor of Resolute.
Continue reading Logger Resolute responds to Greenpeace bid to dismiss racketeering suit
Boom… fish farms debunk ‘ocean acidification’ alarm
” In contrast, the aquaculture industry was farming aquatic animals at CO2 levels that far exceed end-of-century climate change projections (sometimes >10 000 μatm) long before the term ‘ocean acidification’ was coined, with limited detrimental effects reported.”
Continue reading Boom… fish farms debunk ‘ocean acidification’ alarm
Oops… West Antarctic ice sheet melting as far back as 1940s
Pine Island Glacier is nearly two-thirds the size of the UK or the size of Texas. So what’s the cause since CO2 was only around 310 ppm in the 1940s?
Continue reading Oops… West Antarctic ice sheet melting as far back as 1940s
Trump defends climate skepticism in New York Times meeting
Claims to the contrary are “fake news.” The full transcript is below.
Continue reading Trump defends climate skepticism in New York Times meeting
Ten Ways to Fix EPA and Jump-Start the Economy
President-elect Donald Trump has an unprecedented opportunity to get the economy moving again while protecting the environment in a reasonable and practical manner.
Continue reading Ten Ways to Fix EPA and Jump-Start the Economy
E-mails expose EPA’s corrupt process for selecting science adviser
Last October, the EPA selected Donna Kenski to fill an open slot on its Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC).
We just received 450 pages of e-mails from the EPA via the Freedom of Information Act covering Kenski’s selection.
They illustrate the need to #DrainTheSwamp. Continue reading E-mails expose EPA’s corrupt process for selecting science adviser
Another Food Myth Busted: Whole-fat milk consumption associated with leaner children
“The study’s findings differ from Health Canada, National Institutes of Health and American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines recommending two servings of low fat (one per cent or two per cent) milk for children over the age of two to reduce the risk of childhood obesity.” Continue reading Another Food Myth Busted: Whole-fat milk consumption associated with leaner children
Claim: A warm climate is more sensitive to changes in CO2
Nice graph. But can you see what’s wrong with it?
Continue reading Claim: A warm climate is more sensitive to changes in CO2
Claim: Study links shorter sleep and sugar-sweetened drink consumption
The mindless anti-sugar nanny state strikes again.
Continue reading Claim: Study links shorter sleep and sugar-sweetened drink consumption