From The Daily Green: It was California Senator Barbara Boxer versus EPA head Stephen L. Johnson yesterday on Capitol Hill. It wasn’t even a close match. In an extraordinary hearing on Johnson’s much-maligned decision to deny California and 14 other states the right to cut tailpipe emissions, committee head Barbara Boxer was quoted as saying:”You’re going against your own agency’s mission and you’re fulfilling the mission of some special interests.” But that wasn’t nearly...
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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Study: Warming may cut US hurricane hits
A new study to be published this week shows that increased wind shear might actually mean that global warming will result in less hurricanes. This is highly controversial and most climatologists disagree with this finding. I think the trend over the last 20 years has been pretty clear that hurricanes are getting stronger and more frequent, although it is true that we do not have a long enough record of hurricane tracking to draw...
Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica
Although air temperatures on the Antarctic continent have not been going much at all, puzzling scientists, this new study shows that ice loss is accelerating. The cause is likely to be the warming water of the circumpolar current.
Oil Sand Disaster Denial
I have discussed in these pages the environmental disaster of biblical proportion that is caused by oil sand exploitation in northern Alberta. Now it looks like Premier Stelmach is in total denial. It’s amazing how low people can sink just for money. Reposted from DeSmogBlog. Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach was in Washington, DC today hyping his province’s vast reserves of oil-soaked tar sands. Not everyone was applauding Stelmach, and rightly so. According to news...
A Solar Grand Plan
Last month Scientific American published an interesting article on a grand plan to replace most of America’s energy sources through the use of large scale solar energy. After reading it, I would say that it is quite realistic and feasible. The biggest obstacle is the cost: 420 billion dollars over 40 years. But then again it is not that much when you consider that the war in Iraq has already cost more than that...
Report pans environmental record of tar sands companies
The exploitation of the tar sands in Northern Alberta is an economic disaster of epic proportions. Now the Pembina Institute and the World Wildlife Fund have issued a scathing report on the lack of effort from the industry to do better, and from the government to oversee and regulate them. By BOB WEBER The Canadian Press January 10, 2008 at 12:27 AM EST EDMONTON — A new report comparing the environmental performance of Alberta’s...
Quote of the day
“Changing one’s mind in light of the evidence is not weakness: Changing one’s mind is the essence of intellectual growth.” Thomas W. Martin
2007 SmogMaker Awards
DeSmogBlog has just handed out their very first SmogMaker Awards This is the first year for the SmogMaker Awards, honoring those who have subverted honest and forthright public conversation on global warming. Judged by an expert panel of fraudbusters – the staff at the climate change watchdog DeSmogBlog.com – these awards recognize clever, deceptive or merely devious public relations campaigns.