EPA approves California auto emissions standard
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday approved California’s long-standing bid to set its own tough standards for vehicle emissions, a decision in tune …
EPA approves California auto emissions standard
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday approved California’s long-standing bid to set its own tough standards for vehicle emissions, a decision in tune …
Republicans are raising questions about why the EPA apparently dismissed an analyst’s report questioning the science behind global warming.
By Judson Berger
A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into …
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House, dealing a legislative victory to President Obama, narrowly passed sweeping legislation Friday that calls for the nation’s first limits on pollution linked to global warming and aims to usher in …
By MARK STEVENSON
MEXICO CITY – President Barack Obama’s climate envoy dismissed recommendations that the United States and other developed countries reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases 40 percent by 2020.
“The 40 percent below 1990 (levels) …
Debate rages over climate bill, but what’s in it for consumers?
By Renee Schoof
WASHINGTON — How much will it cost the average American household to reduce the U.S. share of global warming pollution and shift to …
How the Global Warming Bill Will Affect your wallet
By Matthew Bandyk
In the coming weeks, Congress will likely consider a massive global-warming bill to create a new cap-and-trade program to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. President Obama …
By Jared Allen
More and more Democrats are ready to vote against Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s climate change bill, according to a congressional committee chairman who opposes his leader.
The House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) said …
BEIJING (AFP) – China will not accept binding cuts in its greenhouse gas emissions, an official said Thursday, after the United States said it made progress with Beijing in talks here on a global …
By Grace Chung
WASHINGTON — Single-use plastic bags, a staple of American life, have got to go, the United Nations’ top environmental official said Monday.
Although recycling bags is on the rise in the United States, an …
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was sued Friday by an environmental group that claims the agency has failed to safeguard public health in the West by not limiting the transmission of air …
Global Warming
July 1st, 2009 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
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I don’t think Al Gore in his wildest dreams could have imagined how successful the “climate crisis” movement would become. It is probably safe to assume that this success is not so much the result of Gore’s charisma as it is humanity’s spiritual need to be involved in something transcendent – like saving the Earth.
After all, who wouldn’t want to Save the Earth? I certainly would. If I really believed that manmade global warming was a serious threat to life on Earth, I would be actively campaigning to ‘fix’ the problem.
But there are two practical problems with the theory of anthropogenic global warming: (1) global warming is (or at least was) likely to be a mostly natural process; and (2) even if global warming is manmade, it will be immensely difficult to avoid further warming without new energy technologies that do not currently exist.
On the first point, since the scientific evidence against global warming being anthropogenic is what most of the rest of this website is about, I won’t repeat it here. But on the second point…what if the alarmists are correct? What if humanity’s burning of fossil fuels really is causing global warming? What is the best path to follow to fix the problem?
Cap-and-Trade
The most popular solution today is carbon cap-and-trade legislation. The European Union has hands-on experience with cap-and-trade over the last couple of years, and it isn’t pretty
Popularity: 1% [?]
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The risk of impacts from climate change is rapidly growing—not from potential future changes in the weather, mind you, but instead, from potential massive government oversight in how we generate and consume energy. The governemnt …
I am of the opinion that this may be subject to a criminal investigation. Particularly when you read the email response, which basically obstructs crucial information that may have altered the outcome in the House …
Solar Cycle 25
Sunday, June 28th 2009, 5:39 AM EDT
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Introduction.
The sun was dismissed by the IPCC as a contributor to the apparent warming of the Earth’s climate during the period from 1975 to 2000.
It seems to …
Global Recession Cuts Down on Global Warming
AMSTERDAM — The global recession has an up side, at least for people worried about climate change: Carbon emissions are growing more slowly than in recent years, Dutch researchers …
The Reference Frame
Saturday, June 27, 2009
EXCERPT:
When I returned home last night, I have been watching CSPAN-1 for many hours. The discussions about the Waxman-Markey “climate bill” were just a stunning experience.
H.R. 2454: the 1092-page version
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Carbongate
Climate Change: A suppressed EPA study says old U.N. data ignore the decline in global temperatures and other inconvenient truths. Was the report kept under wraps to influence the vote on the cap-and-trade bill?
This was …
Here is a list of the Republican traitors that voted for the Waxman-Markey bill:
Mike Castle
Mark Steven Kirk
Dave Reichert
Leonard Lance
Frank LoBiondo
John McHugh
Chris Smith
Mary Bono Mack
I think this marks the beginning of the end in regards to …
This is why environmentalists need to be ran out of business. When you put a minnow above the life of a human, you are a sick freak.
Delta pump shutdown triggers concerns
By Kate Campbell
Assistant Editor
The …
Global Warming, Not
Posted by reasonmclucus on Saturday, June 20, 2009 4:12:18 PM
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Former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw has been reduced to doing infomercials. I don’t know if it’s because he has some psychological need to be …
Global Warming
June 17th, 2009 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
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Musings on the Vostok Ice Core Record
Since I get asked so often what I think of the Vostok ice core data that James Hansen uses as …
The American Spectator
By Paul Chesser on 6.19.09 @ 6:07AM
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Did the chief executives of a few Western states hijack the staff and resources of their regional coalition, against the will of most of their fellow governors, …
Jennifer Marohasy
June 12th, 2009
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“THE scientific method is a valuable way to advance objective knowledge. By testing a hypothesis against observation, it can either be falsified or supported. Not proved, of course, but nevertheless over time …
Winnipeg Free Press
June 13, 2009
By: Robert Alison
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Winter grips 90 per cent of north, migratory birds can’t breed
It is the winter that refuses to go away in northern Manitoba and most of the eastern Arctic.
Prolonged cold …
Climate Depot
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Marc Morano
EXCERPT:
The following is a guest post by Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Chris Walcek, a professor at the University at Albany in NY and a Senior Research Associate at the Atmospheric Sciences Research …
by Marlowe Hood
PARIS (AFP) – The world faces a growing risk of “abrupt and irreversible climatic shifts” as fallout from global warming hits faster than expected, according to research by international scientists released Thursday.
Global …
Summers In UK ‘Will Be Like Mediterranean’
Catherine Jacob, environment correspondent
British summers could soon be akin to those in the drought-ridden Mediterranean and our winters characterised by severe flooding, according to a new report on climate …
ICECAP
June 17, 2009
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM
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NOAA proclaimed May 2009 to be the 4th warmest for the globe in 130 years of record keeping. Meanwhile NASA UAH MSU satellite assessment showed it was the 15th coldest …
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE
June 15, 2009
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(This is part of a private message from Richard S Courtney, answering a third person’s question: “what fundamental principles of thermodynamic, radiative forcing or radiation balance are …
CNS News
Monday, June 15, 2009
By Matt Cover
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(CNSNews.com) – U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said that there was “no question” that China would receive both financial and technological assistance from the United …
The Daily Bayonet
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Gangsters are muscling in on Big Al’s territory and skeptics might be executed. It’s just another week in the rough world of radical environmentalism, conveniently rounded up for your delectation and delight.
Beverages are …
Front Porch Republic
By Bill Kauffman 17 April 2009
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BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY–Once upon a time in America, schoolchildren celebrated a lovely little holiday called Arbor Day. The young scholars would sing songs about Johnny Appleseed, recite Joyce …
Via Watts Up With That?
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The Petition
Jack Eddy was a solar scientist who discovered the sunspot period known as the “Maunder Minimum” in the 1970’s, and despite intense academic pressure of the consensus then, argued that …
Telegraph
By Christopher Booker
Published: 6:04PM BST 13 Jun 2009
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Our politicians haven’t noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, observes Christopher Booker.
For the second time in little over …
Once again your humble field correspondent is here to bring you news about the latest AGW science. Today I have good news and bad news. The good news is that there now seems to be …
This despicable website actually proposes the decrease of global population, yet nowhere can I find exactly how they would like to do it. They say they are trying to decrease the population through education, but …
SPPI
Written by Sherwood, Keith and Craig Idso
Thursday, 28 May 2009
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In a paper recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, Silverman et al. (2009) created a model of coral calcification based on field observations of gross community calcification as …
JoNova
June 2009
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This is big step. Steve Fielding in Australia holds a crucial senate vote on the proposed Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). Astonishingly (for a politician) he stands out from the crowd for simply saying the …
This ranks as the stupidest idea I have ran across in a very long time. Well, maybe not a long time. Painting roofs white is just as stupid.
While Congress considers taxing auto and industrial pollution, …
Financial Post
Posted: May 30, 2009, 3:29 AM by NP Editor
In the climate-change debate, the companies on the ‘environmental’ side have the most to gain.
First in a series.
By Lawrence Solomon
EXCERPT:
W e all know …
The New Republic
Post Date Wednesday, May 20, 2009
by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
Why environmentalism keeps imploding.
EXCERPT:
Sometime after the release of An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, environmentalism crossed from political movement to …
Carbongate
Climate Change: A suppressed EPA study says old U.N. data ignore the decline in global temperatures and other inconvenient truths. Was the report kept under wraps to influence the vote on the cap-and-trade bill?
This was …
by Marlowe Hood
PARIS (AFP) – The world faces a growing risk of “abrupt and irreversible climatic shifts” as fallout from global warming hits faster than expected, according to research by international scientists released Thursday.
Global …
EXCERPT:
The risk of impacts from climate change is rapidly growing—not from potential future changes in the weather, mind you, but instead, from potential massive government oversight in how we generate and consume energy. The governemnt …
Reproduced with permission
Peter W. Huber
Humanity will keep spewing carbon into the atmosphere, but good policy can help sink it back into the earth.
Like medieval priests, today’s carbon brokers will sell you an indulgence that forgives …
The American Spectator
By Paul Chesser on 6.19.09 @ 6:07AM
EXCERPT:
Did the chief executives of a few Western states hijack the staff and resources of their regional coalition, against the will of most of their fellow governors, …
EXCERPT:
The risk of impacts from climate change is rapidly growing—not from potential future changes in the weather, mind you, but instead, from potential massive government oversight in how we generate and consume energy. The governemnt …
Jennifer Marohasy
June 12th, 2009
EXCERPT:
“THE scientific method is a valuable way to advance objective knowledge. By testing a hypothesis against observation, it can either be falsified or supported. Not proved, of course, but nevertheless over time …
