Keep sharp things away from Bill McKibben tonight. Continue reading Senate endorses Keystone XL pipeline in budget amendment vote
Category: Climate & Energy
Carbon taxes spurned in Senate budget vote, 41-58: 13 Dems rejected late plea from Al Gore
Al Gore urged a carbon tax today. The Senate rejected his plea. Continue reading Carbon taxes spurned in Senate budget vote, 41-58: 13 Dems rejected late plea from Al Gore
IBD: BLS Releases Another Phony ‘Green Jobs’ Report
“As yet another Solyndra looms, a new government report shows that by the government’s own broad definition of a green job, more can be found in a coal mine than near a solar panel.” Continue reading IBD: BLS Releases Another Phony ‘Green Jobs’ Report
EPA GHG rules for new coal plants likely delayed until 2014 due to legal and policy uncertainties; Enviros likely to sue
“Almost certainly” say agency sources. Continue reading EPA GHG rules for new coal plants likely delayed until 2014 due to legal and policy uncertainties; Enviros likely to sue
Apple Says Data Centers Now Use 100% Renewable Energy
Everyone that believes this stand on your head. Continue reading Apple Says Data Centers Now Use 100% Renewable Energy
Frackers try buying off enviro opponents — ‘And EDF shall live with Shell. And the Clean Air Task Force shall lie down with Chevron’?
Paying off environmentalists has never worked before. Continue reading Frackers try buying off enviro opponents — ‘And EDF shall live with Shell. And the Clean Air Task Force shall lie down with Chevron’?
NOAA: Feb. 2013 ninth warmest Feb. on record; Tied with Feb. 2003 — 350 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions ago
Atmospheric sensitivity to CO2 over past 10 Februarys = zero. Continue reading NOAA: Feb. 2013 ninth warmest Feb. on record; Tied with Feb. 2003 — 350 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions ago
UN Economist: Atmosphere could absorb at most another one trillion tons of CO2
How would the economist know? Do economists even know anything about the economy? Finally, there is already more greenhouse gas in the atmosphere than there is radiation available to be absorbed. The atmosphere can hold a lot more CO2 with little (if any) warming effect. Continue reading UN Economist: Atmosphere could absorb at most another one trillion tons of CO2
Where’s the global warming mate? Cold weather puts Britain on brink of running out of gas
Isn’t spring supposed to be coming earlier these days? Continue reading Where’s the global warming mate? Cold weather puts Britain on brink of running out of gas
Video: Nuremberg-Trials-for-Skeptics-Guy says Earth’s surface temp may reach 180-degrees F by 2300 without emissions curbs
But the Earth only re-radiates so much radiation for CO2 to absorb and there’s already a surfeit of CO2 in the atmosphere. Continue reading Video: Nuremberg-Trials-for-Skeptics-Guy says Earth’s surface temp may reach 180-degrees F by 2300 without emissions curbs
Bill Gates wants you to give up meat because of global warming and ‘brutal’ farms where animals ‘suffer needlessly’
Bill Gates = Thomas Malthus + Igrid Newkirk. Continue reading Bill Gates wants you to give up meat because of global warming and ‘brutal’ farms where animals ‘suffer needlessly’
WaPo: ‘Yes, conservatives can be environmentalists. Here’s how.’
Poor Jonathan Adler, formerly of the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute and now a law professor at Case Western University, has forgotten whatever it was he learned while at CEI and has now embraced free market-flavored central planning. Continue reading WaPo: ‘Yes, conservatives can be environmentalists. Here’s how.’