Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson has bowed to reality (as calculated here by JunkScience.com). Robinson writes today, “Americans are not the big problem…” [Washington Post]
Category: Climate & Energy
'Clean Energy' Dead-Ender: Vinod Khosla
We’d bet the only reason that one of Khosla’s funds is “up 30% since inception in 2009” is because CalPERS is afraid to value the investment at its real worth. [New York Times]
Climate alarmist utility CEO forced out by regulators
Duke Energy CEO and USCAP co-founder Jim Rogers will get to spend more time with the grandchildren who taught him about the dangers of global warming. [Indiana Business Journal]
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Bizarre ‘Fox Lies’ video: Alleged “Climate-Denying O’Reilly Fan” Now Believes Global Warming is Real
A case study on what happens when somebody makes an assertion about a Fox News personality without doing some elemental research into what he actually says or believes. Continue reading Bizarre ‘Fox Lies’ video: Alleged “Climate-Denying O’Reilly Fan” Now Believes Global Warming is Real
PopSci: 7 Gifts For The Climate Change Denier In Your Life
Clever idea… but that’s where PopSci’s cleverness ends. [Popular Science]
We have only one gift suggestion for the alarmist in your life… Continue reading PopSci: 7 Gifts For The Climate Change Denier In Your Life
Washington state confronts ocean acidification
“Increasingly corrosive waters” affecting oyster farming? But the daily pH variation in tidal areas is naturally large. Continue reading Washington state confronts ocean acidification
Alarmist MacCracken gives up ghost on CO2 cuts
“Indeed, cutting emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) today won’t eliminate a climate change-induced pattern favoring more severe storms and extreme weather.” [Michael MacCracken, NJNet.com]
NYTimes: Is This the End?
In this New York Times front-page Sunday Review article, opinion writer James Atlas frets about climate change destroying New York City. Atlas comes to the correct conclusion about pointless fretting (i.e., enjoy what you have while you have it) but also (inadvertently) debunks the notion of manmade climate change as a cause. Continue reading NYTimes: Is This the End?
Effort to Curb Dangerous Coolant Falters, Sometimes at Home
Is your HVAC tech simultaneously causing ozone depletion and global warming? [NYTimes]
Fracking industry keeps eye on Obama
Upcoming EPA report could doom its future. [Washington Times]
Higher Gas-Tax Idea Joins Fiscal-Cliff Talks
Carbon tax in disguise? [Wall Street Journal]
First cap-and-trade auction a bust for California budget
“A low price for credits and minimal demand for future offsets suggest California will see a mere fraction of the $1 billion that Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers estimated the state would receive this fiscal year.” [Sacramento Bee]