“Steve Milloy, the publisher of JunkScience.com , writing for Investor’s Business Daily, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Christopher C. Horner, writing in California’s Orange County Register, point out that a carbon tax…” [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
Category: Climate & Energy
Exxon for carbon tax with conditions
“A carbon tax should be made revenue neutral via tax offsets in other areas.” [Bloomberg]
Sen. Vitter won't put as much emphasis on global warming
“I share the intense skepticism. But I would not expect to be as much the focus of my time and attention on the committee.” [Times-Picayune]
Alarmist Ploy: Institutional Divestment of Fossil Fuel Investments
“The event was one of 21 in a nationwide tour organized by 350.org to promote divestment. But, as Naomi Klein said, ‘it’s not gonna end with divestment. By the end, anybody who takes fossil fuel money is gonna have to justify themselves.'” [Harvard Crimson]
House GOP leaders pledge to oppose climate change ‘tax’
“The entire House GOP leadership team has registered its opposition to climate legislation that raises revenue, underscoring the long odds that taxing carbon emissions has in negotiations on the fiscal cliff.” [The Hill]
Horner: New carbon tax would be folly
“AEI thereby joined former Republican politicians and advisers seeking to rebrand, as a conservative idea, the latest incarnation of what the political Left has long pined for, only to be told it was a dead letter given the political debacle of the Clinton administration’s 1993 “BTU tax.” [Orange County Register]
Obama declined to attribute Sandy to climate change…
… at this afternoon’s news conference. He did, however, reaffirm his belief in global warming. Continue reading Obama declined to attribute Sandy to climate change…
Frontline Responds to Complaints on Oct 23 “Climate of Doubt”: Here, the Rebuttal to Frontline that PBS Ombudsman Won’t Put Online (*update)
(*11/19/12 update: a slight variant of this piece below was placed online at WUWT on 11/17. It would have appeared before this one, but as Watts notes at the top of my guest post, we had a glitch happening with spam filters. Also, please note the edits below at complaint points 2 & 3, courtesy of a WUWT reader)
On October 25th, JunkScience readers saw a partial version of Tom Harris’ guest post at Anthony Watts site, a complaint about a specific error seen in the 10/23 PBS Frontline program “Climate of Doubt”. Several other posts at Watts’ site raise serious concerns about the program’s arguably unfair treatment of anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming critics.
I jotted down my own while watching the 10/23 broadcast, and distilled thirteen of those the following day into an email complaint to the PBS Ombudsman. My letter appeared at the PBS Ombudsman site November 5th, seen about halfway down the page here, accompanied by Frontline’s point-by-point rebuttal. What follows is my rebuttal to Frontline, which, I’ve been assured, will not appear at the Ombudsman site. Continue reading Frontline Responds to Complaints on Oct 23 “Climate of Doubt”: Here, the Rebuttal to Frontline that PBS Ombudsman Won’t Put Online (*update)
Claim: Global warming causes diabetes
“The link between diabetes and climate change is highlighted in a new report from the IDF and supported by Bupa, which aims to put non-communicable diseases (NCDs) high on the international agenda.” [The Guardian]
Vitter to replace Inhofe on key Senate committee
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) will replace skeptic champion Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) as ranking minority member on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Vitter is also a reliable skeptic, but he is admittedly not as well-versed on climate as Inhofe. [Dredging Today]
Carbon Tax is Pointless and Inflationary
By Steve Milloy
November 14, 2012, Investor’s Business Daily
Climate alarmists hope that Hurricane Sandy and President Obama’s re-election will coerce panicky congressional Republicans into a “carbon tax” deal in 2013. But simple math shows the tax would have no effect other than an inflationary one. Continue reading Carbon Tax is Pointless and Inflationary
Grover Norquist: Bonehead of the Day [UPDATE]
Petraeus et al. notwithstanding… Continue reading Grover Norquist: Bonehead of the Day [UPDATE]