Seventy-two House Democrats wrote to the EPA yesterday pressing the agency to complete its 20-years-in-the-making risk assessment on dioxin. Possibly they don’t know this, but one of the reasons the dioxin assessment has taken so long is that it was debunked and derailed by JunkScience.com and Ben & Jerry’s in November 1999. Continue reading House Dems press EPA on dioxin; Ben & Jerry's to the rescue!
Shale gas 'worse' than coal for climate?
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.
Next.
Tims of the day: House frosh oppose budget deal because EPA riders removed
Hats off to Reps. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) and Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas) for voting against last Friday’s budget deal because the riders blocking EPA from regulating greenhouse gases were dropped. According to Climatewire, Scott, Huelskamp and probably others among the 28 House GOP who voted against the deal believed that restricting EPA was a “critical” component of the budget effort.
Winning! JunkScience.com knocks off anti-fracking professor
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.
Junkman's fantasy: Budget impasse sends 90% of EPA apparatchiks home!
Greenwire reports,
About nine out of every 10 U.S. EPA employees will be furloughed if Congress and the president can’t reach an eleventh-hour budget deal, according to contingency plans released by the agency this morning.
But what about the children?
As I wrote in the Washington Times on February 9,
The EPA is coming for our jobs, electricity and economy. The Obama administration is preparing to make cap-and-trade look like a walk in the park compared to EPA regulation. Its regulatory apparatus is running amok.
Cut the EPA’s budget. Cut it in March. Close down the federal government if necessary. Save us now.
March may not have worked out, but cutting the EPA’s budget in April works, too.
Ford unhappy with outcome of climate alarmism
Bill Ford has spent much of the past 11 years agitating for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions limits. Now Ford is unhappy that his company is reaping what he sowed. Continue reading Ford unhappy with outcome of climate alarmism
Obama finally embraces malaria victims — as political pawns
By Steve Milloy
U.S. Agency for International Development administrator Rajiv Shah and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson win this week’s award for cynicism. Continue reading Obama finally embraces malaria victims — as political pawns
Greenpeace assault on coal finance
Check out this assault on an Australian Bank for their involvement with the mining industry that quite literally sustains the country:
h/t Jo Nova
64 Senators vote to delay/block EPA greenhouse gas regulation
Although today’s four efforts to rollback EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations failed, they nonetheless demonstrated that 64 Senators (17 Democrats and 47 Republicans) support some sort of delay/blockage of EPA greenhouse gas regulation.
A word about Glenn Beck's departure from FOX
by Steve Milloy
I read with sadness today that FOX News is ending Glenn Beck’s daily show. Congratulations, George Soros. You won that round. Continue reading A word about Glenn Beck's departure from FOX
Beyond bias: Trade press recasts Rockefeller as an 'EPA skeptic'
We’re all familiar with the so-called mainstream media’s so-called “liberal bias.” Putting aside that the MSM is not “mainstream” and their bias is way to the left of “liberal,” it’s no secret that this bias often-to-usually colors how the MSM reports news stories. But simple bias is not the entire extent of the MSM’s breech of journalistic ethics. Continue reading Beyond bias: Trade press recasts Rockefeller as an 'EPA skeptic'
AMA quacks on climate
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