UN: Not possible to blame individual extreme weather events on global warming — but 2003 Euro heat wave blamed on warming anyway

The new WMO report concludes: Continue reading UN: Not possible to blame individual extreme weather events on global warming — but 2003 Euro heat wave blamed on warming anyway

UN: Climate extremes are ‘unprecedented’

The BBC reports: Continue reading UN: Climate extremes are ‘unprecedented’

Dem Virgina Guv candidate vows no ‘witch hunts’ against scientists

Is that what a Freedom of Information Act request is? Continue reading Dem Virgina Guv candidate vows no ‘witch hunts’ against scientists

Earth to Natural Gas Industry: GOP-er explains that coal is not Obama’s only target

The National Journal reports: Continue reading Earth to Natural Gas Industry: GOP-er explains that coal is not Obama’s only target

Claim: Global warming to cause more thunderstorms

The Daily Green reports: Continue reading Claim: Global warming to cause more thunderstorms

Shell Oil in bed with enviros to phase out coal

Marvin Odum is a fool if he thinks that the enviros will leave his company alone after they’ve destroyed the coal industry. Continue reading Shell Oil in bed with enviros to phase out coal

Al Gore Whine: MSM ignoring climate alarmism

Al Gore writes at Huffington Post: Continue reading Al Gore Whine: MSM ignoring climate alarmism

NOAA to hit drought panic button on monthly basis — Will track ‘flash droughts’

Digital Journal reports: Continue reading NOAA to hit drought panic button on monthly basis — Will track ‘flash droughts’

Steve Forbes: Focus on economy, not climate

Steve Forbes writes at the Green Bay Press Gazette: Continue reading Steve Forbes: Focus on economy, not climate

Crude Oil’s Coming Clash With Obama’s New Climate Policy

Mark Mills writes at Investor’s Business Daily: Continue reading Crude Oil’s Coming Clash With Obama’s New Climate Policy

Obama’s $8 billion coal joke: Rolls out loan guarantees for carbon capture projects

The Hill reports:

The Energy Department announced Tuesday it will soon take applications for up to $8 billion in federal loan guarantees for projects and developing technologies that reduce carbon emissions from extracting and burning fossil fuels.

The draft request related Tuesday for fossil fuel technologies and projects that reduce greenhouse emissions is open for comment until September and is slated for finalization this fall.

The move is part of the climate agenda President Obama revealed last week. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has been busy promoting the loan guarantees as a rebuttal to attacks from industry and mostly GOP lawmakers that the president’s agenda amounts to a “war on coal.”

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Carbon capture & storage is physically, financially and politically impossible.

CCS is pointless and inflationary.

Indian columnist: Obama climate plan ‘hollow’, little more than clean energy imperialism

Arun Mohan Sukumar writes in the Hindu: Continue reading Indian columnist: Obama climate plan ‘hollow’, little more than clean energy imperialism