Clever idea… but that’s where PopSci’s cleverness ends. [Popular Science]
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Category: Climate & Energy
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]
The great British wind scam
“Green businesses are modifying large turbines to make them less productive, because perverse government subsidies reward machines that produce less energy at nearly double the rate of more efficient ones.” [Spectator]
Carbon taxes won’t save the planet
By Steve Milloy
November 19, 2012, Washington Times (Print Version)
Global-warming alarmists are hoping Hurricane Sandy and President Obama’s re-election will force panicky congressional Republicans into agreeing to a “carbon tax” in 2013. If you can do simple math, you can figure out that a carbon tax would have no effect other than an inflationary one. Continue reading Carbon taxes won’t save the planet
Corn-holed: EPA denies ethanol waiver to eight states; Iowans rejoice
“A request by eight states including Arkansas and North Carolina to waive the renewable fuel standard has been denied by the Environmental Protection Agency… Iowa Governor Terry Branstad applauds the EPA for its decision. In a statement, he said that waiving the renewable fuel standard would add uncertainty to the agriculture sector.” [WHO-TV]
Carbon caper: Bogus policy
“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]