Category: Climate & Energy

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

As Lord Monckton might say… ‘Mee-thane is the problem.’ Continue reading New Green Horror: Composting

“The Met Office is very cross with me. Well you can hardly blame it given that I’ve just published a big piece explaining what a spectacular waste of taxpayers’ money it is.” Continue reading Delingpole: The Met Office – defending the indefensible, as per usual

You can’t draw a graph with data points that are defined differently — unless you are NOAA. Continue reading Hottest year ever? Skeptics question revisions to climate data

Imagine giant cigarettes, burning tobacco to heat water to spin turbines. Continue reading Germans develop new politically correct use for tobacco — biomass