Feb 08 2010

Super Ad on Super Bowl Sunday: The Green Police

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We watched closely and were pretty sure we saw EPA Administrator Lisa “Action” Jackson in this.  Too bad we all can’t own Audis:

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Feb 08 2010

Energy and Environment: Around the Interwebs

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Feb 07 2010

Those Complicit With Global Warming Hysteria

In journalism school in the early 2000’s, there was pervasive hand-wringing over whether the industry having crossed the line from skeptical to cynical on the ways it looked at and portrayed American life.

And then there’s the issue of global warming, which required something of a fifth estate to get journalists to even mention skepticism of the most far-fetched claims.

Mark Steyn writes that “‘climate change’ is not only a scientific scandal but also a massive journalistic failure.” The entire post is worth reading, but Steyn looks at one case in particular:

Like all the poodles of the environmental beat, Margot O’Neill repeats those magic words “peer review” every couple of paragraphs like a talisman to ward off evil deniers. But, in the course of invoking the phrase “peer review”, she never bothers to look at whether the IPCC actually does it. By contrast, without benefit of the resources of a national TV news operation plus salary and benefits, lone blogger Donna Laframboise did a couple of text searches on the IPCC report and discovered multiple predictions of doom – on Himalayan glacier melt and much else – resting not on peer-reviewed science but merely on activist groups such as the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace.

H/t: Instapundit

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Feb 06 2010

More Scorn, Ridicule for UN Global Warming Body

Wow: “even leading scientists and environmental groups admit the IPCC is facing a crisis of credibility that makes the Climategate affair look like small change.”

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Feb 05 2010

Who Invited Al Gore?

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Today, the mayor of Washington, D.C. declared a state of emergency (though, of course, D.C. is not a state) due to an expected mini-blizzard. That usually coincides with some big push for carbon dioxide regulation or legislation and/or a visit from global-warming zealot Al Gore. So who invited him, and where is he hiding?

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Feb 04 2010

And On It Goes

This is just getting ridiculous.

“The latest setback for global warm-mongers is a probe conducted by the British Guardian newspaper, which discovered a prominent climate scientist ’sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based.’”

To quote Charlie Brown, Good grief!

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Feb 03 2010

“Policymakers Standing Up to Imperial EPA on Climate Policy”

Shopfloor.org:

A bipartisan trio of House members on Tuesday introduced a bill to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

Reps. Ike Skelton (D-MO), Collin C. Peterson (D-MN), and Jo Anne Emerson (R-MO) introduced H.R. 4572, which would also amend the 2007 Energy Bill to stop EPA from calculating land use changes in foreign countries in determining American renewable fuels policy, and would broaden the definition of renewable biomass.

“Simply put, we cannot tolerate turning over the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions to unelected bureaucrats at EPA,” Skelton said. “America’s energy and environmental policies should be set by Congress.”

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Feb 02 2010

On To The EPA Fight

As we’ve been issuing virtual screams, it looks like cap and trade is in mortally wounded shape. So the vigilance of the economically minded and global warming skeptics needs to focus on regulatory efforts through the Environmental Protection Agency.

As Mark Tapscott of the indispensable Washington Examiner writes:

As Energy and Environment Climatewire’s Jessica Leber reports today, the Obama administration has proposed a modest cut of $300 million from EPA’s overall $10 billion budget for 2011, the amounts allocated for global warming related regulatory and other activities is up, to $1.1 billion, or about 12 percent of the agency’s expenditures.

A total of $56 million will go to global warming regulations, while another $169 million of the $1.1 billion total will be spent on efforts directly aimed at reducing the greenhouse gases global warming advocates like former Vice President Al Gore claim are responsible for causing dangerous temperature increases in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Ugg. To the rare few Americans who maintain a balanced view of politics, it has to be clear by now that the forces of global warming alarmism are in this for a quasi-religious cause and the possibility to control billions or trillions of money — and probably both.

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Feb 01 2010

Too Early To Do Global Warming’s Autopsy

Glenn Reynolds is linking to what amounts to a post mortem of the campaign for global warming. The short story: “The movement died from two causes: bad science and bad politics.”

We think it’s too early to pop the champagne corks, but it’s certainly looking good. Who knows, maybe we can put this blog on the shelf to collect dust.

Here’s a reminder of our hope/prediction from a few months ago.

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Jan 31 2010

Energy and Environment: Around the Interwebs

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