June 20, 2013 – 8:21 am
Alternate headline: Obama readying plan to artificially raise your electricity costs and the costs of everything else by executive fiat (NY Times) President Obama is preparing regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, senior officials said Wednesday. The move would be the most consequential climate policy step he could take and one likely […]
June 19, 2013 – 3:49 pm
Today’s unhinged Warmist story comes to us via the UK Guardian, in an article which mentions a violent video game from PETA and then suggests the creation of games “to accurately teach about science” In Grand Theft Climate, you play a climate scientist who, after years of harassment, public attacks and scorn, and political interference […]
June 14, 2013 – 2:54 pm
Here it comes (The Hill) A Senate panel will begin consideration of a carbon tax bill as part of a broader hearing on climate change in mid-July. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) told reporters in the Capitol on Thursday that Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) climate bill will surface during that […]
June 14, 2013 – 8:49 am
In other words, hold onto your wallets, as Obama speaks to people whom which he wants to provide open wallets (Bloomberg) With his administration under pressure from environmentalists to reject the Keystone XL pipeline project, President Barack Obama plans to unveil a package of separate actions next month focused on curbing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. […]
June 11, 2013 – 2:56 pm
An important question an enviroweenie/Warmist wants answered from Grist (because your average E/W doesn’t seem to have the brainpower to do the Internet search themselves, so instead will ask someone else to do the work, thereby increasing the amount of energy needed to find the answer) Ask Umbra: Can my bicycle power my toaster? How […]
June 10, 2013 – 3:07 pm
There is so much #Fail in this little missive by Warmist Clay Evans I do not know where to actually begin Climate-change action is a conservative position “On May 2, after nightfall shut down photosynthesis for the day in Hawaii, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere touched 400 parts-per-million there for the first time in […]
June 10, 2013 – 8:47 am
All hail the computer model!!!!! (Washington Post) Global emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use rose 1.4 percent to 31.6 gigatons in 2012, setting a record and putting the planet on course for temperature increases well above international climate goals, the International Energy Agency said in a report scheduled to be issued Monday. The agency […]
June 8, 2013 – 5:10 pm
Not spying on Americans, not Islamist terrorism, not governments spending way more than they take in, not the tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities, nope. Here’s Joe Romm (Climate Progress) The biggest story of our time is the collapse of Arctic sea ice and its impact on our extreme weather (see “CryoSat-2 Confirms Sea Ice […]
June 8, 2013 – 8:08 am
Unsurprisingly, the two op-ed authors, Michael Oppenheimer and Kevin Trenberth…you remember, Kevin, right? He’s the one who wrote the email which said “we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t”, among others…start out by forgetting to actually mention science. But, you know, alarm bells […]
June 7, 2013 – 11:08 am
It’s been over 2784 days since a major hurricane hit the United States. Only one actual hurricane (Isaac being a hurricane can be debated) has hit the US since 2008. There hasn’t even been that many tropical systems hitting the US. Major hurricane activity seems to occur during the PDO, and can be affected by […]
