Category Archives: Environment

Gulp: The Very Scary Climate Cost Of Halloween Candy!

We’re dooooooomed because of Halloween. Here’s Warmist Diana Donion at the Huffington Post Trick or Treat? The Frightening Climate Costs of Halloween Candy Americans will spend more than two billion dollars on candy this Halloween, making it candy’s biggest holiday. This is fun for kids, great for dentists, and downright fantastic for the Mars family. […]

Did Deforestation Help Unleash Ebola?

An interesting proposition from Grist Perhaps you have heard about Ebola, otherwise known as The Most Terrifying Disease Of Our Modern Times (Sorry, MERs; panic is a fickle friend). But you might not have heard that Ebola’s origin story also features a favorite environmental arch-villain? And by “favorite,” I mean “actually the worst”: deforestation. You see, the […]

Enviros Wonder Why “Green” Groups Are So Darned Lilly White

Visiting any hardcore enviro/climate change groups is almost like attending a Redheads Of Alaska meeting. The white is blinding Green must diversify or die Roughly 50 environmentalists of various racial backgrounds — African American, Native American, Latina, and Caribbean — gathered at the National Press Club yesterday with a message for mainstream green institutions: If […]

BrightSource Solar Plant Workers Have A Name For Birds: “Streamers”

Of course, Warmists are more concerned with mythical anthropogenic “climate change” than wildlife (AP) Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrated sun rays — “streamers,” for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair Federal wildlife investigators who […]

If Everyone Is Not Forced To Go Vegan, We’re Doomed

Cause doom (HuffPo) “We’re creating irreversibility in areas of global depletion. If we’re going to make it as a civilization or species, we have to change,” says Dr. Richard Oppenlander. “To move the world in the direction that’s truly more sustainable, the most efficient way possible means adopting fully organic, plant-based agricultural systems.” Oppenlander (pronounced […]

What If “Climate Change” Wasn’t Real?

Just to be clear, once again, for Warmists, the debate is not about a changing climate, it is about causation. Warmists say it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind, yet they won’t modify their own behavior to match their beliefs. Strange, eh? Anyhow, Tali Trigg has an interesting essay regarding “climate change” and true environmentalism If […]

Surprise: EPA Also “Lost” Emails

I mentioned a Mark Stein article in the previous post. Something else he wrote It’s worse when the supposedly impartial civil service uses those powers in the service of the ruling party: The merger of party and state is the very definition of “banana republic”. And it’s worst of all when they get away with […]

Who Knew Thate Stealing A/C Units Is Now A Federal Offense Under The Clean Air Act?

When conservatives refer to government overreach and the proliferation of Big Government, this fits in perfectly (WLWT) An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act by releasing a refrigerant into the air during the theft of dozens of air conditioning units. Federal prosecutors say Martin Eldridge and others stole at least […]

Masking Real Environmental Issues With “Climate Change”

I’ve mentioned many times that one of the things about the “climate change” movement is that it takes real, and sometimes very serious, environmental issues, and places them under the banner of “climate change”, when they have really nothing to do with CC and would be best off standing on their own. Here we go […]

Good News: Obama’s Extremist EPA Attempting To Change Rules On Navigable Waters

The Environmental Protection Agency was a great idea when it was signed into law by Richard Nixon. Protecting the environment. Who couldn’t be against an agency that does that? Over the years, though, they’ve been invaded by extremist enviro-wackos, and I’m not sure that we can even call it “mission creep” at this point. More […]

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