Posted on July 1st, 2009 by admin -
I first saw this video of Alan Carlin from the EPA over at Gore Lied. I thought you should take a look.
I think Dr. Carlin looks pretty credible. He is obviously not a great public speaker and he can probably count on one hand the number of times he has been interviewed on national television on one hand. He, wisely, doesn’t do a lot guessing in his interview and he even answers one question by saying that he can only report on what he was told. Good for him - report the facts and let the conclusion grow from there.
I want to wish Mr. Carlin well - it is quite likely that this episode has injured his career and once again we see that the EPA is not really run by wise people! Does everyone remember when the EPA was so derided that Ghostbusters even made fun of it?
Of course, Gretchen Carlson, asks the typical idiot question that she normally asks - this time stating she thinks that a law was broken. Seriously, this woman needs to get off of national television. I was in a market that she covered earlier in her career and she was foolish then as well. She is the reason that I rarely watch Fox and Friends.
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Posted on July 1st, 2009 by admin -
I have talked about RealClimate.org many times in the past. In general, the gentlemen over there are pretty smart but they do tend to be one-sided in their analysis. They consistently take the side of “global warming is caused by humans” and they don’t treat others with much respect.
I started questioning their partisanship when they lashed out at the UK judge that said that “An Inconvenient Truth” was not 100% factual. They didn’t like me calling them out on that. They then spiked some of my comments on their site when degraded scientific discussion to a challenge of who has a bigger wallet. Read more... (2475 words, estimated 9:54 mins reading time)
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Posted on June 26th, 2009 by admin -
Funny title. You may have to read it a couple times to get it. I didn’t create it - I am not that creative.
Kim Strassel has an opinion in the Wall Street Journal where she does a fair amount of reporting on the difficulties that politicians are having in dealing with the coming global warming catastrophe. It seems that politicians are a lot like many of my readers, when scientists can’t agree on what is happening (and not just little disagreements but violently opposed to each other) one should probably wait to spend trillions of dollars on which side is correct.
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Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by admin -
I have had a few posts on the recent report from the US Administration regarding global warming. My posts all reference the great work of other bloggers on the subject. This post will be no different.
Steve McIntyre builds on the work of Climate Skeptic in digging into the utility industry and the vast increases in outages that they are suffering through due to the rampant bad weather that we are enjoying due to global warming. Read more... (370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)
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Posted on June 19th, 2009 by admin -
I am going to continue to let Climate Skeptic keep up the good work on the latest report from the US Administration regarding the dire circumstances of global warming. He has posted again on the subject and has even done a follow-on to the worry the increased storm activity is upsetting the electrical grid (post number 4 on the subject). Read more... (312 words, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 by admin -
Regular readers know that I think that nuclear power is one of the very few ways we can provide the power we need without taking the chance that global warming is caused by carbon dioxide. If you believe in anthropogenic global warming and don’t believe the human race should live like the Amish, then you really don’t have a choice but to endorse nuclear power.
Contrary to my custom, I will be recreating the complete story here.
Strickland details plans for nuclear plant
Business First of Columbus - by Matt Burns
A third nuclear power station proposed for Ohio likely won’t start operating for years, but government officials and energy industry executives are saying it is time to start considering its construction and Piketon is the place for it.
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 by admin -
It seems that everyone else is doing a great job of beating up the report. I am not sure that I will have to spend any time on it since everyone else is really challenging the science and the techniques in the report. The folks at RealClimate appear to be quiet on it though. I would be interested in their thoughts and if they will follow blindly or will they actually be critical of the parts that bear questioning?
This comes from Climate Depot
U.S. Government Scientist: ‘I disagree strongly with the hurricane-related conclusions of this report!’
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 by admin -
I was about to write about the new report by the US Administration titled “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States” and was starting my research. I was happy to find that Climate Skeptic had already started to review the document. I may add some thoughts on a future post but for now I will recreate some of his statements here and point you to that site.
I guess I am doing a review of the review! But I have done that before and it seems to be popular and provides a service to my readers. Read more... (586 words, 1 image, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)
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Posted on June 17th, 2009 by admin -
If you read this site often, you will think that title implies something about statements that former US Vice President Al Gore made regarding global warming. If you so thought, you are only partially correct. I just read an article about another scientific issue that EVERYONE thought was true.
For years, it has been assumed that one or two drinks of alcohol per day were good for you. I am sure the vintners of the world helped to increase that belief. Now, the NY Times (and I saw it on Lifehacker) is reporting that this may not be true. It seems that just because healthy people drink an occasional glass of wine, the wine itself is not making them healthy! Read more... (243 words, 1 image, estimated 58 secs reading time)
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Posted on June 16th, 2009 by admin -
Treehugger recently did a slideshow on the World’s Dirtiest Rivers and Lakes. While the slideshow doesn’t have anything to do with global warming, it should be important to all and especially the readers that stop by this site each week. If you are concerned with global warming then you should be concerned with most things where we have screwed up the environment to our own detriment.
Recently, there was a rather foolish announcement that said that said global warming kills over 300,000 per year already. I didn’t talk much about this report here, as I thought it didn’t merit my time. However, I do wonder how many real deaths (as opposed to Kofi’s fictitious 300K) are caused by poor drinking water. If you have ever been in a Starbucks, you have likely seen the bottles of Ethos water which donate part of the proceeds to clean drinking water to poor countries. Their site says:
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