Senate Democrats will hold a show trial of sorts tomorrow about air quality and asthma in children. Because Congressional Republicans generally stink at such hearings, JunkScience is releasing this fact sheet to help them out. Continue reading Can Congressional Republicans be trained? JunkScience.com releases childhood asthma-air pollution fact sheet ahead of Senate hearing
Environmental Protection (Or Propaganda?) Agency
JunkScience.com friends Paul Driessen and Willie Soon nail the EPA in today’s Investor’s Business Daily:
If Federal Register notices, press releases and activist campaigns assured progress, the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rules for 84 power plant pollutants would usher in vastly improved environmental quality and human health.
Unfortunately, the opposite is likelier…
Claim: BPA exposures underestimated
University of Missouri researchers claim that previous lab tests have underestimated exposures to bisphenol A (BPA). (Press release|Study).
However, the study has a number of limitations which suggest that it is not applicable to humans: Continue reading Claim: BPA exposures underestimated
Win $500 in JunkScience.com's 'Climate Change Denier Tattoo' Sweepstakes!
Ready to be out and proud? Enter JunkScience.com’s Climate Change Denier Tattoo Sweepstakes! Continue reading Win $500 in JunkScience.com's 'Climate Change Denier Tattoo' Sweepstakes!
Tattoos for climate 'deniers'?
Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Glover suggested in his most recent column that “Surely it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.”
Gore-monism: Romney believes in manmade global warming
That Mitt Romney is a Mormon is, of course, no problem. That he is a Gore-mon, however, is. Continue reading Gore-monism: Romney believes in manmade global warming
Do GOP hopefuls trust Al Gore?
By Steve Milloy
June 3, 2011, Washington Times
What would Al Gore do? Could that really be New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s thought process? Continue reading Do GOP hopefuls trust Al Gore?
Atrazine not a carcinogen, study says
Who didn’t know that the Environmental Working Group was wrong about atrazine being a carcinogen? Continue reading Atrazine not a carcinogen, study says
Honey, I shrunk the carbon markets…
The World Bank reported yesterday that the global carbon market is shrinking… politics, apathy, fraud and the failure of cap-and-trade in the U.S. to blame.
Cosmic rays as climate driver: The Svensmark Effect demonstrated
Not that climate skeptics are under any obligation whatsoever to explain whatever climate change is occurring, but a new study demonstrates that cosmic rays, as affected by the Sun, can affect cloud formation so as to have a much greater impact on global climate than CO2. Click for the full story — only on JunkScience.com.
Fossil fuel emissions make Nemo deaf?
As we predicted the other day… Finding deaf Nemos: Clownfish are growing up with impaired hearing ’caused by fossil fuel emissions’. But if baby clownfish were so sensitive to slight changes in their environment, there would be no clownfsh — imagine the relatively dramatic changes in their environment during storms that they survive. Continue reading Fossil fuel emissions make Nemo deaf?
Cell phones and cancer: Who cares what WHO says?
Today’s media hoopla about the World Health Organization classifying cell phone use as “possibly carcinogenic” is much ado about nothing. Continue reading Cell phones and cancer: Who cares what WHO says?