Category: Climate & Energy

The National Academy of Science’s National Research Council issued a new climate report today with the same old alarmism: Continue reading New NAS climate report; Same ol' same ol' junk science

In “Coal Tales Call Unfit for Fourth Grade“, the New York Times reports that anti-business lefties are attacking Scholastic, Inc. for publishing pro-coal educational materials that were developed by the American Coal Foundation. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood calls this “predatory marketing.”

The CCFC, however, apparently had no problem when Scholastic published Al Gore’s propaganda in 2007.

Read the Times article and take the poll below:

Cutting through the environmental crap in today’s New York Times report, “In a Green Town, Activists See Red Over Lockheed Martin“, it’s clear that:

• The mayor of Burlington, VT wants jobs;
• Lockheed Martin wants to make money; and
• Local anti-military lefties oppose both of the above.

But the debate, at least as reported by the Times, is centered around around global warming. Read the article and take the poll below.

Move over Army Cross… the Windmill Commendation Medal is on its way for clean energy heroism above and beyond the call of duty. What are we talking about? —>

By Steve Milloy
May 7, 2011, Investor’s Business Daily

General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt hasn’t yet seen the light on climate science, but apparently he has at last felt the heat for lobbying for cap-and-trade. Continue reading GE's Immelt Returns Focus To Green Cash

General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt has finally renounced advocacy of global warming legislation… and we helped! Continue reading Victory! GE's Immelt surrenders on climate

Clinton administration energy chief and former UN ambassador Bill Richardson hopes the killing of Osama bin Laden improves the prospects for climate legislation. According to Politico, Richardson said:

My hope is that from this success in the foreign policy arena two days ago, that he will be emboldened to take once again to the Congress legislation — not just to increase a renewable energy standard — but climate change legislation that this country and the world need… We can sit back and say, well we’ll wait until the next election, wait until the political climate is better. You know if we do that, we’re doomed — if we don’t take action right away.

Ironically, bin Laden was Richardson’s ideological kinsman on climate.

Transparency International reports that,

None of the 20 countries deemed most vulnerable to climate change score more than 3.6 on TI’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) indicating significant risks of corruption.

At the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference, President Obama promised that the U.S. would contribute to a $100 billion fund for developing nations threatened by climate change.

An upside of our debt crisis is that foreign climate corruption is not likely something U.S. taxpayers will be funding any time soon.

Climate alarmists have finally found one good thing about global warming — as you might expect, though, they’re even wrong about that. Continue reading New 'study': The ONE good thing about global warming

You might think that the big terrorism news today is that we finally got Osama bin Laden. Hah, that shows how much you care about the planet. Continue reading Forget bin Laden: Gitmo is green!

No doubt some lobbyist was patting himself on the back in January after securing a 3-year reprieve from EPA’ greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations for the biomass industry. Continue reading EPA set up biomass industry for failure

The upward trend in dengue fever in the U.S. is still not being blamed — at least by scientists — on climate change. Continue reading Bad news for AMA: Dengue still not blamed on climate change