With Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) citing Hurricane Sandy as a reason to have another go at climate legislation, to say nothing of the media spin depicting Sandy as punishment for our fuelish ways, it’s useful to look at some actual science. In a study published in the journal Climatic Change, scientists Michael Chenoweth and Dmitry Divine analyze the history of [...]
Evidence for how Iran is pulling all the ocnflict strings on Israel's borders - and is using Palestinian Hamas as its regional pawn in pursuit of its nuclear strategy...in my latest article. Go here to Energy Tribune.
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So much for the democratic mandate of the well-heeled environmental lobbies...the President's election mandate, it turns out, is (strong cross-party support) for more domestic oil and gas.
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… if your data do not look like a quadratic! This is a post about global sea-level rise, but I put that message up front so that you’ve got it even if you don’t read any further. The reputable climate-statistics blogger Tamino, who is a professional statistician in real life and has published a couple [...]
Grim new report from the NAACP. Grim, but not surprising. The new report says that 78 percent of African-Americans live within 30 miles of a coal fired power plant. Of the 378 coal plants across the country, 75 are considered to be the most toxic and receive an “F” on the report’s environmental justice report [...]Along with a few others who have swum against the tide of media ignorance, I have been saying for years how the peak oil (we're running out of oil) alarmists were dead wrong. Now everyone knows they were. Here's a piece from me just published spelling it out further.
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Just published at Energy Tribune my article spelling out why the US Government's unlected quango (aquasi-non-government-organization) is thoroughly "unfit for purpose".
For teh full article go here.
Both the blogosphere and the mainstream media have been abuzz with commentary blaming global warming for Hurricane Sandy and the associated deaths and devastation. Bloomberg BusinessWeek epitomizes this brand of journalism. Its magazine cover proclaims the culpability of global warming as an obvious fact: Part of the thinking here is simply that certain aspects of the storm (lowest barometric [...]