Category: Climate & Energy

The Wall Street Journal editorial page observes in “Alaska’s Ebbing Oil“:

…In its 1980s heyday, the 800-mile pipeline pushed some 2.2 million barrels of oil a day from Alaska’s North Slope to the port of Valdez. Yet as the rich fields of Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk River have declined, oil flow has dropped to one-third of that volume. The drop-off is now causing serious technical problems, as slow-flowing oil drops in temperature and clogs and corrodes the pipe. Failing a technological fix, or more oil, the pipe’s near-term viability is at risk.

Environmentalists know that if the pipeline is shut down, by law it must be dismantled. If they can starve the pipeline of supply, they can kill Alaskan drilling….

To parapharase John Donne’s Meditation XVII:

Any energy source denied diminishes us, because we are involved in an energy intensive society and therefore never send to know for whom the gas pump tolls it tolls for our standard of living.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced a revised energy “master plan” for New Jersey that embraces natural gas, energy efficiency and economically failing renewable energy technologies (i.e., solar and wind), merely “considers” nuclear power, and shuns more coal, which currently produces 14% of the electricity used in the state. Did Christie miss the 20th century’s lessons about central planning? You can watch Christie’s press conference here.

Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Glover suggested in his most recent column that “Surely it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.”

That Mitt Romney is a Mormon is, of course, no problem. That he is a Gore-mon, however, is. Continue reading Gore-monism: Romney believes in manmade global warming

By Steve Milloy
June 3, 2011, Washington Times

What would Al Gore do? Could that really be New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s thought process? Continue reading Do GOP hopefuls trust Al Gore?

The World Bank reported yesterday that the global carbon market is shrinking… politics, apathy, fraud and the failure of cap-and-trade in the U.S. to blame.

Not that climate skeptics are under any obligation whatsoever to explain whatever climate change is occurring, but a new study demonstrates that cosmic rays, as affected by the Sun, can affect cloud formation so as to have a much greater impact on global climate than CO2. Click for the full story — only on JunkScience.com.

As we predicted the other day… Finding deaf Nemos: Clownfish are growing up with impaired hearing ’caused by fossil fuel emissions’. But if baby clownfish were so sensitive to slight changes in their environment, there would be no clownfsh — imagine the relatively dramatic changes in their environment during storms that they survive. Continue reading Fossil fuel emissions make Nemo deaf?

Washington, DC – June 1, 2011 (PRNewswire) – JunkScience.com announced today that it is sending an emergency shipment of climate-related books authored by global warming skeptics to Gov. Chris Christie, the apparently climate information-deprived chief executive of the state of New Jersey. Continue reading JunkScience.com launches global warming book drive for needy New Jersey Governor; Christie should be embarrassed by 'What would Al Gore do' rationale