Low salt campaign backfires: Study reports rise in sodium intake despite warnings; Low-salt linked with obesity?

Less salt means people eat more food. Continue reading Low salt campaign backfires: Study reports rise in sodium intake despite warnings; Low-salt linked with obesity?

Enviros spin upcoming pipeline defeat: ‘The anti-Keystone movement was never just about blocking a pipeline’

“It aimed to awaken a new environmental movement—and it’s already succeeded.” Continue reading Enviros spin upcoming pipeline defeat: ‘The anti-Keystone movement was never just about blocking a pipeline’

Confused: The Nation warns global warming will cause ‘breakdown of social order or the collapse of states’

Isn’t that what the comrades want? Continue reading Confused: The Nation warns global warming will cause ‘breakdown of social order or the collapse of states’

Study: Global warming to outpace evolution — species won’t adapt, they’ll just go extinct

“Earth’s regional climate zones will shift more quickly in response to warming as the globe grows hotter in coming decades, according to a study published online in Nature Climate Change on Sunday. This is likely to make it harder for species to cope, raising the risk of extinction.” Continue reading Study: Global warming to outpace evolution — species won’t adapt, they’ll just go extinct

Utility lawyer: Enviros misusing zoning laws to block coal exports, undermine the coal industry

“And I don’t believe it’s a good-faith effort to address either the environmental effects of trains or terminals. If the environmentalists really cared about that direct environmental impact, they should have raised it long ago.” Continue reading Utility lawyer: Enviros misusing zoning laws to block coal exports, undermine the coal industry

Backfire: Enviros celebrate famous 1938 global warming paper — but author concluded CO2 emissions ‘likely to prove beneficial to mankind’

From The Guardian on Earth Day: Continue reading Backfire: Enviros celebrate famous 1938 global warming paper — but author concluded CO2 emissions ‘likely to prove beneficial to mankind’

20 Years Ago: 4-22-93 — John Christy says dire reports of global warming not based on reliable data; Satellite data show no warming

From the days when a skeptic could get published in the MSM — here, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Christy offers a good overview of the satellite monitoring system he and Roy Spencer developed. Continue reading 20 Years Ago: 4-22-93 — John Christy says dire reports of global warming not based on reliable data; Satellite data show no warming

Good news for birds: GE warns of sliding wind turbine sales — results aren’t expected to improve

“General Electric Co warned of slowing profit growth in its industrial businesses due to weakness in Europe and sliding [wind and gas] turbine sales, unnerving Wall Street and pushing its stock down.” Continue reading Good news for birds: GE warns of sliding wind turbine sales — results aren’t expected to improve

Study: 20th century ‘hottest in 1400 years’ — Relies on pollen sampling, other proxy ‘data’

“In a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Monday, an international team of scientists reconstructed temperatures over the past 2000 years using proxy records such as tree-ring measurements, pollen sampling, coral reefs, ice cores and historical records.” Continue reading Study: 20th century ‘hottest in 1400 years’ — Relies on pollen sampling, other proxy ‘data’

WaPo: Europe ‘a green-energy basket case’, ‘dysfunctional’, Kyoto ‘not designed properly’ — Flashback to Dec. 1997: WaPo disses Kyoto

Hits Germany for shutting its nukes, Spain for over-investing in renewables, and France for not fracking — but still urges a carbon tax for the U.S. Continue reading WaPo: Europe ‘a green-energy basket case’, ‘dysfunctional’, Kyoto ‘not designed properly’ — Flashback to Dec. 1997: WaPo disses Kyoto

Joe Romm: ‘I don’t worry about the earth… Concern over the earth is elitist’

“…something people can afford to spend their time on when every other need is met.” Continue reading Joe Romm: ‘I don’t worry about the earth… Concern over the earth is elitist’

Hypocrisy: Enviro Journalist Society calls EPA e-mail scandal ‘totally bogus’; An effort to ‘politically damage EPA’

For the Society of Environmental Journalists, EPA transparency is only a problem when enviros can’t get info out of EPA. Continue reading Hypocrisy: Enviro Journalist Society calls EPA e-mail scandal ‘totally bogus’; An effort to ‘politically damage EPA’