Category: Climate & Energy

Will Justice Anthony Kennedy pass tomorrow’s test of judicial common sense? Continue reading A Supreme test: Are CO2 emissions a 'nuisance'?

The Chevy Volt gives the phrase “pay to pollute” a whole new meaning. Continue reading Detailing the greenwashed Chevy Volt

Last Friday’s budget deal blocks funding for the Obama administration’s National Climate Service (NCS). —>

Cornell University Prof. Robert Howarth claims in a new study that,

“Compared to coal, the footprint of shale gas is at least 20 percent greater and perhaps more than twice as great on the 20-year horizon.”

A respectable but counting-the-number-of-angels-that-can-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin takedown of Howarth’s study may be found at EnergyInDepth.org.

But if you just want JunkScience.com’s cut-to-the-chase takedown, here it is:

Manmade emissions of CO2 from burning coal are not known to have had a discernible impact on climate. So even assuming that Howarth’s worst case scenario concerning shale gas was true, two times a non-discernible impact is still a non-discernible impact.

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JunkScience.com’s recent spotlight on anti-fracking activist-researcher Conrad Volz has apparently led to Volz’s ouster from the University of Pittsburgh, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “Pitt prof caught off base in new frack attack” exposed Volz’s flawed research and anti-fracking activism — a combo that was too much for Pitt. The Tribune-Review article refers to Canada Free Press’ reprint of the JunkScience.com article.

By Steve Milloy

The American Medical Association claimed in an April 4 editorial that,

“The shift in the planet’s climate is affecting the health of patients — and physicians are starting to see the results.”

So let’s see how the AMA backs up that assertion. Continue reading AMA quacks on climate

The hostile bid by Nasdaq OMX and the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to buy NYSE Euronext could possibly breathe new life into the now-defunct Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). Continue reading Chicago Climate Exchange gets new life?

University of Pittsburgh assistant professor Conrad (Dan) Volz issued a report on March 21 to scientists and the U.S. EPA claiming that natural gas industry is dumping carcinogenic agents into drinking water. Continue reading Pitt prof caught off base in new frack attack

From “Pull the Plug on Electric Car Subsidies” in today’s Wall Street Journal:

If you’re looking for a car that makes good economic sense in these tough times, PEVs simply don’t make the grade. Unless crude oil prices rise close to $300 per barrel and battery costs fall by 75%, a PEV is more expensive than a gasoline-powered vehicle.

… and neither, let alone both, will be happening any time soon.

The oxymoron-ish nature of a “left-wing think tank” is on display in the Center for American Progress’ latest pitch for a so-called “clean energy standard” (CES). Continue reading Clean energy's junk economics

Not that it takes much to confuse Republican politicians more than they already are about the EPA and its regulation of greenhouse gases (GHGs), but the Greenwire article below tries to sow further confusion by claiming that Republicans are at least partially responsible for the confusion over whether the Supreme Court forced the EPA to regulate GHGs. Our comments are [bracketed in bold]. Continue reading Clearing the air on EPA's Supreme Court 'mandate'