The House failed to repeal the incandescent light bulb ban yesterday. Continue reading 10 House GOP-ers whose political lights need to be switched off in 2012
Category: Climate & Energy
What makes a scientific expert? Congressional Democrats offer a shocking answer
What makes a scientific expert? Knowledge? Expertise? Accomplishment? Respect of one’s colleagues? A new bill introduced in Congress has a shocking new answer. Continue reading What makes a scientific expert? Congressional Democrats offer a shocking answer
Update: High extinction risk from climate change?
When last we left Ilya Maclean’s claim that ongoing climate change represented a major threat to biodiversity, our probe had been put off by an autoresponder e-mail from Maclean:
I am out of office until Tuesday 12th July.
But true to his word, Maclean got back to me this morning: Continue reading Update: High extinction risk from climate change?
High extinction risk from climate change?
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims to “provide strong empirical support for the assertion that anthropogenic climate change is now a major threat to global biodiversity”… just don’t ask for an example. Continue reading High extinction risk from climate change?
Climate alarmism downgraded from Michael Mann's 'near-certainty' to Michael Mann's 'hypothesis'
It’s been almost a week since the publication of Michael L. Mann’s new climate study and everyone has missed the only notable part of it. Continue reading Climate alarmism downgraded from Michael Mann's 'near-certainty' to Michael Mann's 'hypothesis'
Memo to Hal Rogers: 'Hope' is not a strategy for dealing with EPA
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) said that the proposed 18 cut in the FY2012 budget for EPA “sends a very strong message” to rein in EPA’s actions. Rogers then added, “I am hopeful that these provisions are sufficient to prod EPA in the right direction.”
But we’ve been down this path before. The EPA doesn’t generally respond to such “messages.” The EPA knows that the Democrat-controlled Senate will reject the House budget cuts and the Republicans will then fold like a cheap suit. If Rogers wants to get the EPA’s attention, he’ll need to turn the agency’s lights off for awhile — that will require an Alamo-like stand to deep cuts in the EPA budget.
Rogers may view the proposed 18% budget cuts as deep, but we view them as approving of 82% of what the EPA does.
Fred Upton: All talk and no action
No doubt the EPA is trembling (or snickering?) at the sight of House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton’s media release about the EPA’s so-called “Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.” Continue reading Fred Upton: All talk and no action
EPA's Shell game
Maybe the EPA is just trying to help Shell explore for oil off the coast of Alaska — or maybe the agency is simply setting up Shell (and the rest of us) for failure. Continue reading EPA's Shell game
UN-hinged: United Nations wants $76 trillion for 'great green technological transformation'
A new report from the United Nations claims that natural disasters have quintupled over the past 40 years and that developed countries should spend $1.9 trillion annually through 2050 in a “great green technological transformation.”
Dick Lindzen: A Climate Change Dissenter Who Has Left His Mark on U.S. Policy
Check out Climatewire‘s profile of hall-of-fame skeptic Dick Lindzen… of course, we are still waiting for Climatewire to report about the latest James Hansen controversy.
Shortchanged: House GOP proposes mere 18% cut in EPA budget
It’s really shocking that the Tea Party-flavored, REPUBLICAN-controlled House is apparently OK with 82% of what the EPA does. Continue reading Shortchanged: House GOP proposes mere 18% cut in EPA budget
Last chance for GOP to stop EPA train wreck
By Steve Milloy
July 6, 2011, The Washington Times
The next month is a good time for Congressional Republicans to move beyond empty gestures to solve the job-killing and economy-slowing problem that is the Obama Environmental Protection Agency. Continue reading Last chance for GOP to stop EPA train wreck