Category: Climate & Energy

“According to a press release from its creators, the ad will reportedly air on Fox News Channel in the Denver, Colorado and Houston, Texas markets before and after Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, February 12.” Continue reading ‘Exxon Hates Your Children’ Ad To Air On Fox News Around State Of The Union

What warming? Continue reading Lom-Gore-Borg: 40% of global warming is not manmade

“The Obama administration’s electric-car fantasy finally may have died on the road between Newark, Del., and Milford, Conn.” Continue reading WaPo Columnist: The electric car mistake

“On Thursday, February 14, 2013, The Heartland Institute is releasing a 57-page report produced by its legal counsel, Jones Day, presented to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois in support of criminal prosecution in the matter… Continue reading The Criminal Case Against Peter Gleick coming from Heartland on Valentine’s Day

“Volcanoes are well known for cooling the climate. But just how much and when has been a bone of contention among historians, glaciologists and archeologists. Now a team of atmosphere chemists, from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the University of Copenhagen, has come up with a way to say for sure which historic episodes of global cooling were caused by volcanic eruptions.” Continue reading Chemistry trick kills volcano-climate cooling controversy

“Ancient carbon trapped in Arctic permafrost is extremely sensitive to sunlight and, if exposed to the surface when long-frozen soils melt and collapse, can release climate-warming carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere much faster than previously thought.” Continue reading Study: Sunlight stimulates release of climate-warming gas from melting Arctic permafrost

Paul Krugman needs to read his own newspaper before he calls others ignorant. Continue reading Krugman attacks ‘Ignorance Caucus’ — but (ignorantly?) asserts that sea-level rise is making Norfolk vulnerable

“The Energy and Commerce initiative marks an escalation of GOP efforts to nudge Obama on Keystone after Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman (R) gave the OK to a revised pipeline route. The Nebraska ruling was viewed as one of Keystone’s last hurdles, with clearing Obama remaining the final test.” Continue reading House GOP put Obama on Keystone Clock

Can the Muslim Brotherhood play nice with nuke power? Continue reading UN: Growing African interest in nuclear power

“Nye has created some wonderful science educational programs for children, but a weather expert he is not.” Continue reading WaPo slams ‘science guy’ Bill Nye for spurious Nemo explanation

“Since there is a very strong upward trend in Colorado summer temperatures, they could link tree death to climate change.” Continue reading Study: Colorado tree die-off triggered by hotter temperatures

“I don’t see in the foreseeable future that fracking will be employed anywhere within Germany.” Continue reading German environment minister: No tracking