Red Herren: SEC Commissioner shovels climate nonsense at NYTimes readers

SEC Commissioner Allison Herren Lee has an op-ed in today’s New York Times cheerleading for enhanced corporate disclosure of climate risks. She has no idea what’s she’s talking about. Below is my line-by-line take down. And don’t forget about my SEC petition to stop climate lying.

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California Governor Newsom makes false claim about children, asthma and tailpipe emissions

In announcing his legally dubious ban of gasoline-powered cars in California by 2035, Gov. Newsom stated, “You deserve to have a car that doesn’t give your kids asthma.” JunkScience.com readers will recall that EPA-funded UCLA and USC researchers in the 2000s to spray diesel exhaust up the noses of children as young as 10 years old in order to see what happened. Not a wheeze was what happened. Nothing that comes out of tail pipe causes or triggers asthma. EPA has much clinical research on actual humans demonstrating this. The results of these (illegal) studies are non-public except to the extent that they have been discovered and previously exposed by JunkScience.com through the Freedom of Information Act.

US Senate refrigerant bill not cool

The Caesar Rodney Institute’s David Stevenson explains why the latest bi-partisan climate bill — a legislative effort to circumvent the non-ratifiable Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol for the benefit of multinational rentseekers– is bad for Americans.

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Wildfires offsetting California’s expensive cap-and-trade emissions cuts

California’s failure to manage its forests so as to limit wildfires offset much if not all of the state’s expensive efforts to reduce its greenhouse emissions. Three charts from the California government and some back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate this.

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Joe Bast sets Washington Post straight on Trump appointment of David Legates to NOAA

Former Heartland Institute chief Joe Bast corrects the fake news on David Legates from the Washington Post. (Editor’s Note: One of the authors of the Post article, Andrew Freedman, was a political science major and is now a political science hack reporter… obviously qualified to pass judgment on Dr. David Legates.)

University of Delaware climatologist Dr. David Legates was just appointed to a leadership role at NOAA.

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