Oops… Mother Nature did it again; Antarctic sea expansion has natural explanation

“The integration of data and models provides further evidence that the Antarctic Ice Sheet has experienced much greater natural variability in the past than previously anticipated.”

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UN: ‘The world is burning more coal than ever’

From the UN IEA’s new report: “COAL: Medium-Term Market Report 2016.”

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Wow… DDT residues have been killing mosquitoes for 40 years

The greatest manmade chemical of all time — still working despite being banned in 1972.

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Study: Obama ‘war on coal’ responsible for 84% of decline in coal use

The rise of cheap natural gas from fracking only reduced coal use by an estimated 16%.

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No, burning less coal isn’t making tuna ‘safer’

The Washington Post reports today:

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The problem, however, is that the decline in mercury level in tuna (if true, in the first place) is not due to reductions in coal burning. Continue reading No, burning less coal isn’t making tuna ‘safer’

North Carolina slams EPA’s mad rush of midnight regulations

Read the letter to EPA chief Gina McCarthy from North Carolina Secretary of the Environment, Dr. Don van der Vaart.

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Logger Resolute responds to Greenpeace bid to dismiss racketeering suit

Resolute’s response to Greenpeace’s motion to dismiss is here as well as declarations from forestry experts in favor of Resolute.

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Boom… fish farms debunk ‘ocean acidification’ alarm

” In contrast, the aquaculture industry was farming aquatic animals at CO2 levels that far exceed end-of-century climate change projections (sometimes >10 000 μatm) long before the term ‘ocean acidification’ was coined, with limited detrimental effects reported.”

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Oops… West Antarctic ice sheet melting as far back as 1940s

Pine Island Glacier is nearly two-thirds the size of the UK or the size of Texas. So what’s the cause since CO2 was only around 310 ppm in the 1940s?

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Trump defends climate skepticism in New York Times meeting

Claims to the contrary are “fake news.” The full transcript is below.

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Ten Ways to Fix EPA and Jump-Start the Economy

President-elect Donald Trump has an unprecedented opportunity to get the economy moving again while protecting the environment in a reasonable and practical manner.

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E-mails expose EPA’s corrupt process for selecting science adviser

Last October, the EPA selected Donna Kenski to fill an open slot on its Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC).

We just received 450 pages of e-mails from the EPA via the Freedom of Information Act covering Kenski’s selection.

They illustrate the need to #DrainTheSwamp. Continue reading E-mails expose EPA’s corrupt process for selecting science adviser