Category: Climate & Energy

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

As predicted in print by Steve Milloy more than a year ago, Shell Oil’s Arctic Ocean drilling permits have been blocked by the EPA. Continue reading Sad but true: JunkScience predicts Shell drilling permit fiasco

Enviro activists are apoplectic that the Obama State Department has dismissed their concerns about the Keystone (tar sands) pipeline resulting in increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Continue reading Enviros wrong on Keystone pipeline greenhouse gas emissions

Everyone’s talked about it for years. Politicians and activists have tried to change the entire Western economy and social order because of it. Some have made a fortune or become famous ranting about it.

But no one has ever known what it is. Not only has the technology not existed to calculate it but, truth be told, it doesn’t even really exist in any meaningful manner in the first place! Continue reading Introducing JunkScience.com's Global Thermometer

Things didn’t go well today for the states arguing before the Supreme Court that CO2 can be subject to common law nuisance claims. Continue reading Greens set to lose 'nuisance' claim in Supreme Court

The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday — and climate alarmist Ross Gelbspan is again (still) not among them. Continue reading Ross Gelbspan still not a Pulitzer winner

You just can’t make this stuff up… from the Daily Mail (UK):

Crazed cult leader Charles Manson has broken a 20-year silence in a prison interview coinciding with the 40th anniversary of his conviction for the gruesome Sharon Tate murders – to speak out about global warming…

In a cell phone conversation, Manson said,

“Everyone’s God and if we don’t wake up to that there’s going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we’re doing bad things to the atmosphere. If we don’t change that as rapidly as I’m speaking to you now, if we don’t put the green back on the planet and put the trees back that we’ve butchered, if we don’t go to war against the problem…”

So at least someone is paying attention to Al Gore.