Category: Climate & Energy

If you don’t pay me, I’m not going to use it. Continue reading China Working to Cut Idled Wind Farm Capacity, Official Says

“But the return to office last month of the conservative Liberal Democratic party (LDP) under Shinzo Abe effectively killed off the idea of a non-nuclear Japan.” Continue reading Japan seeks to reverse commitment to phase out nuclear power

“It is in part why “global warming” has been strategically rebranded as “climate change”: to overcome a conundrum that global temperatures have not followed a linear increase in a way that lobby groups find easy to explain.” Continue reading The Australian: Climate results validate sceptics

The old record was set 72 years ago. Continue reading Chicago breaks 72-year snowless record

Cap-and-trade really works! Continue reading California faces epic cold snap

“The White House and the Energy Department say all clean energy loans and grants were decided on the merits” — the merits of political contributions, that is. Continue reading Firms Sue Energy Dept, Claim Cronyism in ‘Green Car’ Loan Program

“With $1.4 billion in help from American taxpayers, Nissan has begun assembling its electric vehicle in Tennessee. It had better use some of the money to buy a large parking lot to store all those unsold cars.” Continue reading IBD: Electric Cars Don’t Sell But Let’s Build More Anyway

“Regardless, all NCDC temperature proclamations must be taken with a large grain of salt. Here’s why.” Continue reading Harris & Ball: 2012 probably not the hottest on record, after all

In D.C., we have a believer, the ancient Bob Ryan. Continue reading Your weatherman probably denies global warming

“Eastern Russia is so freezing — minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and counting — that the traffic lights recently stopped working in the city of Yakutsk.” But if it was CO2-caused global warming, Eastern Russia ought to be warmer. Continue reading NYTimes: Heat, Flood or Icy Cold, Extreme Weather Rages Worldwide

“by including landfalling tropical cyclones in the Climate Extremes Index for 2012, NOAA lowered the ranking, but gives the public the impression that landfalling tropical cyclones contributed to the high ranking—when, in reality, tropical cyclones lowered the 2012 ranking.” Continue reading Another glitch on the NCDC State of the Climate report