August 20, 2012 – 9:20 am
Writing over at Wired, Matt Ridley exposes the constantly litany of enviroweenie/Warmist prognostications of doooooooom, along with other end of the world as we know it crazies (via Climate Depot) Apocalypse Not: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Worry About End Times When the sun rises on December 22, as it surely will, do not expect apologies […]
August 17, 2012 – 4:57 pm
Warmists who refuse to give up their fossil fueled travel and big “carbon” lives hit hardest (Grist) There’s a new scientific paper out in the journal Nature called “Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere.†In a sane world, it would be front page news. This is from the abstract: Localized ecological systems are known […]
July 13, 2012 – 5:18 pm
Someone really confused their talking points (Washington Examiner) David Frantz, who runs the Energy Department’s loan guarantee program, contradicted President Obama today by telling Congress that the program is not designed to create jobs. “The predominance of our portfolio — and the objective, really, of the act — is to be creating large infrastructure, utility-scale […]
July 5, 2012 – 8:03 am
Back on June 26th, Obama cheerleading The Politico was rating “green” companies that received DOE loans, and determined that Nevada Geothermal Power (NGP) as a “mixed bag” Nevada Geothermal: The company’s Blue Mountain project in northern Nevada received a partial loan guarantee for $98.5 million in 2010. The project is already generating power, but production […]
July 4, 2012 – 6:54 am
Interesting. Oregon doesn’t seem to mind killing thousands of birds each year from all the wind turbines located around the state, and actually asked for permission to not be held responsible for killing Golden Eagles. But, scaring them? Bad mojo (Fox News) An Oregon town has reportedly canceled its annual fireworks show out of concern […]
June 29, 2012 – 2:36 pm
And it’s a menace to society (Treehugger) The notion that air conditioning should be enshrined as a fundamental right is preposterous—there’s a difference between feeling entitled to a luxury and defending a human right, after all. The New York Times saw fit to host a debate on that topic last week anyway, and Lloyd promptly […]
June 20, 2012 – 8:12 am
Now, this is interesting. One of the things I have written about many times, as have others, is why there is a need for public sector unions. One of the main purposes of unions is to protect the workers from harsh bosses and companies and make sure working conditions are within excepted norms. Liberals always […]
June 15, 2012 – 8:55 am
For those who watched the new Dallas reboot (I didn’t. Wasn’t interested in the first, not interested in this one), did you catch the underlying theme? No? Well, let Time Magazines Ecocentric explain it In case you thought that the battle between big oil and alternative fuel had cooled down, Hollywood has proven that the […]
June 9, 2012 – 8:43 am
Live in Miami Beach? Well, prepare yourself to have your garbage invaded (InfoWars) Audi’s infamous ‘Green Police’ Superbowl commercial may not be far off coming to fruition. Miami Beach has passed an ordinance that makes recycling compulsory from July 2013, with those who fail to comply under threat of fines up to $2500 dollars. “People, […]
June 7, 2012 – 10:52 am
We’re doooooooooooooooooooooomed. Or something. It’s another in a long line of tipping points that never seem to actual happen (Science Agogo) Based on an evaluation of more than 1,000 previous studies, a new meta-review by an international group of 18 scientists suggests the Earth is perilously close to a tipping point where resource consumption, ecosystem […]
