Category Archives: Environment

Coal – confirmed by NASA as getting cleaner

Posted on December 3, 2011 by

Oh Dear, It’s another Joe Romm head exploder. The improvement is verified by satellite data and the results are peer reviewed. Yet the EPA still insists on closing coal plants nationwide. NASA Satellite Confirms Sharp Decline in Pollution from U.S. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Energy, Environment | 92 Comments

Chicken Little of the Sea Visits Station ALOHA

Posted on November 24, 2011 by

Guest post by David Middleton Introduction My never-ending search for actual observational data that support the hypothesis of catastrophic anthropogenic ocean acidification (Chicken Little of the Sea) has taken me to offshore Hawaii and Station ALOHA.

Posted in Alarmism, Environment, Oceans | Tagged , , , , , , , | 35 Comments

Study: ‘green’ biofuels could be costing the earth

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

From the University of Leicester  department of inconvenient truths: New study suggests EU biofuels are as carbon intensive as petrol University of Leicester research into greenhouse gas emissions from oil palm plantations provides robust measures now being used to inform … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon footprint, Environment, Green tech, Land use land cover change | Tagged , , | 74 Comments

Water evaporated from trees cools global climate

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

From the Carnegie Institution – maybe we should build more cooling towers. Washington, DC. — Scientists have long debated about the impact on global climate of water evaporated from vegetation. New research from Carnegie’s Global Ecology department concludes that evaporated … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Obvious science | Tagged , , | 106 Comments

Wastewater GHG emissions, a poop de grace?

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

From the University of Cincinnati Wastewater recycling can multiply greenhouse gas emissions New research shows that wastewater recycling processes may generate more greenhouse gases than traditional water-treatment processes. Despite this finding, there are good reasons to continue keep wastewater recycling … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment | 24 Comments

Attack of the killer clothes dryer

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

From the University of Washington  comes news of a terrible scourge of air pollution coming from America’s suburban wasteland. Yes, it’s the unregulated clothes dryer vent. I see a whole new division of the EPA just for this major threat … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Environment | Tagged , , , | 64 Comments

Animals and plants flee 0.7°C temperature rise in last century

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

UPDATE: Highly recommended reading from Donna LaFramboise (h/t to reader Lars P), apparently this researcher has had several rebuttals posted against his previous peer reviewed version of this claim. One rebuttal by a prominent ecologist said: “the worst paper I … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Climate_change, Environment | Tagged , | 89 Comments

Oh noes! Cities endanger the future environment

Posted on August 20, 2011 by

From Yale University Growth of cities endangers global environment New Haven, Conn.—The explosive growth of cities worldwide over the next two decades poses significant risks to people and the global environment, according to a meta-analysis published today in PlosOne. Researchers … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Environment | 59 Comments

Climate change hype – it’s turtles all the way down under

Posted on July 3, 2011 by

From the Society for Experimental Biology via Eurekalert, now making the rounds on websites like ScienceDaily, worrisome news that climate change will possibly, maybe, could, put the endangered Mary river turtle in Australia at further risk. Even the author of … Continue reading →

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Run Away! The “Anthropocene” is coming!!!

Posted on June 24, 2011 by

Guest Post by David Middleton I just love it when the authors of these sorts of articles start out with a series of mistakes… The Anthropocene: Can Humans Survive A Human Age? by Adam Frank About 12,000 years ago (give … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Paleoclimatology | 101 Comments

Monbiot smacks head first into reality

Posted on May 4, 2011 by

George Monbiot has published a story in the Guardian with a strong dose of reality: He goes on to say that maybe it’s time to give up “magical thinking”. I hope that by laying out the problem I can encourage … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Environment, Opinion | 121 Comments

Green Sin Week – your personal guide to penance

Posted on April 24, 2011 by

Mocking Lent, Good Friday, and Easter observed by millions, the eco website “Grist” this week showed the link between all things green and religion, by making a “virtual confession booth” for those who have sinned against Gaia. Apparently, there’s been … Continue reading →

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Canadian Harp Seals In New England (“prediction” of cooling?)

Posted on March 21, 2011 by

Canadian Harp Seals may have “read” the predictions of the coming decades of stabilization of global temperatures and perhaps some cooling. Animals like the Harp Seal have experienced many millions of years of climatic change and, through the complex processes … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate_change, Cosmic rays, Environment, Modeling, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , | 159 Comments

One more thing that is “better than we thought” – NOAA: “the atmosphere’s self-cleaning capacity is rather stable”

Posted on January 7, 2011 by

Yesterday we learned that the great Pacific Garbage Patch really isn’t as big as hyped by media, today we learn that the “atmosphere’s ability to rid itself of many pollutants is generally well buffered or stable”. Huh. Imagine that, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Earth, Environment | Tagged , , , , , , | 51 Comments

CO2 is Plant Food (Clean Coal, Say WATT?)

Posted on January 6, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein. When Lord Monckton told Congress “CO2 is plant food”, the Global Warming activists went crazy because … well, because they know he spoke an inconvenient truth. Monckton’s statement was ridiculed in many blog posts and … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Carbon dioxide, Carbon sequestration, Energy, Environment, Solar, Technology | Tagged , | 110 Comments

Garbage: Another environmental claim proven to be hyped

Posted on January 6, 2011 by

From Oregon State University: Oceanic “garbage patch” not nearly as big as portrayed in media CORVALLIS, Ore. – There is a lot of plastic trash floating in the Pacific Ocean, but claims that the “Great Garbage Patch” between California and … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Environment, Oceans | Tagged , , | 85 Comments

Naked bodies and a new Messiah

Posted on January 4, 2011 by

Guest post by Robert Zimmerman If anyone had any doubt that the global warming movement is undergoing a serious collapse, this so-called news article from Spiegel Online, entitled “Naked bodies and a new Messiah: Green groups are trying to sex … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Alarmism, Climate News, Climate_change, Education, Environment, media, Opinion, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 107 Comments

Kyoto Protocol: Bad Science = Bad Policy

Posted on December 28, 2010 by

Guest Post by Ruth Bonnett As early as 1969, writings by Ayn Rand – philosopher and novelist – sounded the alarm bells on the environmentalist movement and the potential impact on our society: The uncontested absurdities of today are the … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Carbon credits, Carbon dioxide, Carbon footprint, Environment, Government idiocy, IPCC, Opinion | Tagged , , , , | 97 Comments

Montford and Newbery’s submission to the BBC’s Science Coverage Review

Posted on November 16, 2010 by

I’ll be honest and say that I’m deeply sceptical that this or any other submission will make much difference, but I admire their tenacity. Andrew Montford ( Bishop Hill ) and Tony Newbery (Harmless Sky) have put in a submission … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, media | 53 Comments

Inconvenient eco bags – now with lead

Posted on November 15, 2010 by

From the New York Times: Even Reusable Bags Carry Environmental Risk By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM They dangle from the arms of many New Yorkers, a nearly ubiquitous emblem of empathy with the environment: synthetic, reusable grocery bags, another must-have accessory … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, Environment | 79 Comments