September 16, 2012 – 5:34 pm
For every action from those that are out to save Gaia comes an opposite action that leaves you scratching your head (Australian) THE “smart” gases created by scientists to help save the Earth’s ozone layer have turned out to have a devastating side effect: they have boosted global warming by up to 20 per cent. […]
September 15, 2012 – 9:09 am
Hey, can you guess who thinks that using food for fuel is a Bad Idea? The New York Times. Obviously, the ministers at the Central Department Of Environmental Truth feel differently. And, instead of going through the legislative branch, you know, that pesky creation of the Constitution given lawmaking ability, here comes another “rule” from […]
September 11, 2012 – 9:04 am
It’s interesting to note that every time there is a big storm that knocks out power, people immediately assault power companies for failing to spend oodles of money upgrading their infrastructure. Like just last year in New Jersey. This past July saw people and government freaking out on PepCo, a Maryland power company, along with […]
September 3, 2012 – 7:58 am
This is what modern Progressivism looks like (via The New Nostradamus of the North) (Spiegel Online) Now that 100-, 75- and 60-watt bulbs have already been eliminated, as of Sept. 1 the smaller 25- and 40-watt bulbs will also slowly disappear from the lives of 500 million Europeans — without any of those citizens having […]
August 26, 2012 – 3:39 pm
One of the main problems I have with terming things “green” is that it is no longer about the environment, but about reducing CO2, ie, the carbon footprint. That, and that the Warmists go way, way, way overboard. Here’s Grist In 2009, Seattle set out to to create the next generation of cutting-edge green buildings […]
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 […]
