“It aimed to awaken a new environmental movement—and it’s already succeeded.” Continue reading Enviros spin upcoming pipeline defeat: ‘The anti-Keystone movement was never just about blocking a pipeline’
Category: Climate & Energy
Confused: The Nation warns global warming will cause ‘breakdown of social order or the collapse of states’
Isn’t that what the comrades want? Continue reading Confused: The Nation warns global warming will cause ‘breakdown of social order or the collapse of states’
Study: Global warming to outpace evolution — species won’t adapt, they’ll just go extinct
“Earth’s regional climate zones will shift more quickly in response to warming as the globe grows hotter in coming decades, according to a study published online in Nature Climate Change on Sunday. This is likely to make it harder for species to cope, raising the risk of extinction.” Continue reading Study: Global warming to outpace evolution — species won’t adapt, they’ll just go extinct
Utility lawyer: Enviros misusing zoning laws to block coal exports, undermine the coal industry
“And I don’t believe it’s a good-faith effort to address either the environmental effects of trains or terminals. If the environmentalists really cared about that direct environmental impact, they should have raised it long ago.” Continue reading Utility lawyer: Enviros misusing zoning laws to block coal exports, undermine the coal industry
Backfire: Enviros celebrate famous 1938 global warming paper — but author concluded CO2 emissions ‘likely to prove beneficial to mankind’
Good news for birds: GE warns of sliding wind turbine sales — results aren’t expected to improve
“General Electric Co warned of slowing profit growth in its industrial businesses due to weakness in Europe and sliding [wind and gas] turbine sales, unnerving Wall Street and pushing its stock down.” Continue reading Good news for birds: GE warns of sliding wind turbine sales — results aren’t expected to improve
Study: 20th century ‘hottest in 1400 years’ — Relies on pollen sampling, other proxy ‘data’
“In a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Monday, an international team of scientists reconstructed temperatures over the past 2000 years using proxy records such as tree-ring measurements, pollen sampling, coral reefs, ice cores and historical records.” Continue reading Study: 20th century ‘hottest in 1400 years’ — Relies on pollen sampling, other proxy ‘data’
WaPo: Europe ‘a green-energy basket case’, ‘dysfunctional’, Kyoto ‘not designed properly’ — Flashback to Dec. 1997: WaPo disses Kyoto
Hits Germany for shutting its nukes, Spain for over-investing in renewables, and France for not fracking — but still urges a carbon tax for the U.S. Continue reading WaPo: Europe ‘a green-energy basket case’, ‘dysfunctional’, Kyoto ‘not designed properly’ — Flashback to Dec. 1997: WaPo disses Kyoto
Copenhagen to be carbon neutral by 2025; Hilarious photo
A photo accompanying the article is captioned “Copenhagen already gets much of its electricity from wind power (photo: Justin Gerdes)”. Note coal plant blazing away in background. Continue reading Copenhagen to be carbon neutral by 2025; Hilarious photo
NYTimes: Audubon birders report 60% of N. American birds moving north because of global warming
But there hasn’t been any warming in 17 years. Continue reading NYTimes: Audubon birders report 60% of N. American birds moving north because of global warming
Obama war on coal continues with power plant water effluent proposal
Enviros blame fracking for deadly Texas fertilizer plant explosion
“The U.S. could soon be home to a lot more ammonia factories — not a comforting thought after a deadly explosion at an ammonia fertilizer plant in Texas on Wednesday evening. You can blame the fracking boom.” Continue reading Enviros blame fracking for deadly Texas fertilizer plant explosion