Category Archives: Current News

Green pee « The Daily Bayonet

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

A Florida school has learned a hard lesson about green technology and green math. The plan was to save water, and the planet, by installing waterless urinals in the boys washrooms. Each green urinal would save the school $100 per … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News | Tagged , , , , , , , | 122 Comments

Dallas earthquake not caused by fracking… And neither was the Ohio quake.

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

Guest post by David Middleton Wow! I woke up Friday morning to news that a 2.0 Md earthquake struck about a mile and a half from my office. I was sleeping at home, about 7 miles from the epicenter, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Current News, earth, Earthquakes, energy, petroleum | Tagged , , , , , , , | 85 Comments

Honda being sued in small claims court by woman they ignored over hybrid gas-electric mileage claim

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

This is novel. A woman who is upset with Honda over lack of promised gas mileage on her HondaCivic Hybrid. It seems as the battery aged, the mileage went from the EPA sanctioned 51mpg highway sticker value to about 30. … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 146 Comments

Thought Provoking words for the BBC and the Guardian – from a Podcast by the BBC’s Michael Buerk

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

Guest Post by Barry Woods The respected BBC journalist, Michael Buerk has a short podcast entitled Michael Buerk on the Climate Summit at a new blog that I have just come across called The Fifth Column. It has some thought-provoking and challenging concerns for … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, media, Opinion | Tagged , , , , , , , | 91 Comments

Coke’s WWF cash machine

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

White Coke Cans Fund Polar Bear Myths Guest post by by Paul Chesser For years Coca-Cola has given millions of dollars to eco-extreme group World Wildlife Fund, whose alarmism and perpetration of falsehoods are unmatched among its cohorts in climate … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News | Tagged , , | 116 Comments

Friday Funny – TV news accidentally parodies the “occupiers”

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

From TVSpy: KGW, the NBC-affiliate in Portland, is under fire after accidentally airing a graphic listing numbers of “stinky people” and “angry people” at Occupy Portland. The graphic (pictured below) aired briefly, for less than a second, in the middle … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, Humor, media, satire | Tagged , , , , , | 99 Comments

Occupy London: “Righteous” until it gets too cold – IR camera reveals they leave to a warm bed at night

Posted on October 26, 2011 by

This is Hilarious. When the going gets tough, the occupiers get going! Wild eyed climate svengali Bill McKibben claims the “atmosphere is occupied”, and that’s why we have global warming. Only one problem, when the atmosphere gets too cold, people … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, ridiculae, satire | Tagged , , , | 167 Comments

The Birds, now occupying near you

Posted on October 12, 2011 by

I wonder if the Hitchcock estate and/or the current copyright holder might want a piece of this action? The whole green movement has gone occupy crazy lately, which I suppose is a reflection of the failure of the movement as … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News | Tagged , | 138 Comments

Monday Mirthiness – a cancel-a-thon in the making

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

I read Paul Krugman’s column once in awhile, and I always come away feeling abused. Yesterday when I read his column, my first thought was that “if I had a subscription, I’d cancel it”. Apparently I wasn’t the only one. … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News | Tagged , | 150 Comments

Solyndra Solar raided by FBI

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

I guess the feds want to know where that $535 million dollar “green jobs” DOE loan went. Via Andrew Breitbart and from NBC Bay Area News: FBI agents armed with search warrants descended this morning on bankrupt solar company Solynrda … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News | Tagged , | 95 Comments

Denied: California Green School’s charter revoked

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

This is a story about a charter school in my town of Chico, CA that had its charter revoked last night by the school board. I used to serve on that board, and I would have voted to pull the … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, local_issues | 82 Comments

Quantifying the Fukushima reactor leak with atmospheric Sulfur Dioxide

Posted on August 15, 2011 by

From the University of California – San Diego  via Eurekalert First quantitative measure of radiation leaked from Fukushima reactor Observations of radioactive sulfur that formed when seawater was used to cool reactors and spent fuel ponds reveal the amount of … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, Disaster, Radiation | 42 Comments

Old prediction may fit the present pattern

Posted on June 1, 2011 by

Jo Nova writes: Prediction: Warming trend until year 2000, then very cold. Visit Steven Goddard’s blog to read the full news story. Their work fits in reasonably well with the Syun Akasofu graph posted here for the world to see:

Posted in Current News | 190 Comments

The folly of linking tornado outbreaks to “climate change”

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

In times of tragedy, there always seems to be hucksters about trying to use that tragedy to sell a position, a product, or a belief. In ancient times, tragedy was the impetus used to appease the gods and to embrace … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Current News, Disaster, Opinion, thunderstorms, tornadoes, weather | Tagged , , , , , | 69 Comments

“…it would be a mistake to blame climate change for a seeming increase in tornadoes”

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

I was very encouraged by this part of the story:

Posted in Current News, Technology, tornadoes | Tagged , , | 50 Comments

Olympic sized climate control pie in the sky

Posted on March 27, 2011 by

From Slashdot.org “In anticipation of extreme heat during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, scientists and engineers at Qatar University have developed a solar-powered gas-filled cloud that will shade spectators and athletes from the intense sun. The $500,000 artificial clouds … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Current News | Tagged , , | 52 Comments

The negligent promotion of nuclear panic

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

It pains me to see large parts of the media still hyperventilating over the very modest amounts of radioactive material coming from the Fukushima Daiichi plant on the east coast of Japan. Nothing has been made more plain that most … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, Disaster, media, Opinion, tsunami | Tagged , , , | 288 Comments

Someone is wrong in the MSM about radiation

Posted on March 20, 2011 by

Almost anyone who has spent any time on the internet in blogs or chat rooms has run into this famous cartoon from XKCD: Well now, the cartoonist has taken on a new subject – showing how wrong some the MSM … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News | Tagged , , | 132 Comments

Good news from Japan: Situation ‘fairly stable’, says IAEA

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

IAEA= International Atomic Energy Agency – update here Story below from the Register: The situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant in Japan, badly damaged during the extremely severe earthquake and tsunami there a week ago, continues to stabilise. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, Disaster, energy | Tagged , , , , | 124 Comments

Nuke Tsunami Makes Clean Coal Look Better

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein The recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami, which shut down several reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex in northeastern Japan, followed by a failure of the backup cooling systems that resulted in hydrogen gas explosions and … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, Disaster, energy, politics, tsunami | Tagged , , | 111 Comments

In light of radiation fears, I offer this repost

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

Going bananas over radiation With all the worries over radiation leaks from Japan, and hoarding of Potassium Iodide tablets, I thought it valuable to repost a link to this story from last month which was very popular.

Posted in Alarmism, cosmic rays, Current News | Tagged , , , | 130 Comments

NCDC’s Dr. Tom Peterson responds

Posted on January 17, 2011 by

After I published this story: NCDC’s Dr. Thomas Peterson: “It’s a knife fight” I wrote to Dr. Peterson to advise him that he had WUWT available to him for rebuttal should he wish. Here is his response verbatim. – Anthony ============================================================ … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Current News | Tagged , , , , , , | 193 Comments

December cold – unprecedented?

Posted on December 29, 2010 by

BBC news has reported that 40,000 homes are still without water in Northern Ireland after the recent spell of freezing temperatures. Many have been without water for more than 10 days, and reservoirs are being drained due to an unprecedented … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, records, weather | Tagged , | 101 Comments

T. Boone Pickens Abandons U.S. wind power

Posted on December 25, 2010 by

From Slashdot: In 2008, billionaire T. Boone Pickens unveiled his ‘Pickens Plan’ on national TV, which calls for America to end its dependence on foreign oil by increasing use of wind power and natural gas. Over the next two years, … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, energy | 147 Comments

Early Christmas gift from Lisa Jackson: power plant greenhouse gas limits

Posted on December 23, 2010 by

EPA Agrees to Limit Emissions From Power Plants, Refineries From the NY Times:  the headline would make it sound like there was some sort of debate going on inside the EPA… First paragraph:  “Threatened with lawsuits from environmental groups, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, politics | Tagged , , , , | 109 Comments