Tom Nelson writes: Water vapor as “pollution”?: Sierra Club’s claims are based on opacity, which measures the thickness of emissions from a smoke stack by how much light passes through…
Category: Environment
Friday Funny – Great moments in Environmentalism: the '2 million' KXL comments – real or fake?
UPDATE: Bill McKibben doesn’t seem to want to address the question. See below. Earlier today, 350.org’s founder Bill McKibben tweeted this: [Source: http://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/442052998324551680 ] Tom Nelson asked about those boxes…
Study: Electric vehicles have little impact on US pollutant emissions
A new study from North Carolina State University indicates that even a sharp increase in the use of electric drive passenger vehicles by 2050 would not significantly reduce emissions of…
New tax scheme: 'Environmental fiscal reform'
PR from Basque research: Environmental fiscal reform would improve the environment and reduce the informal economy The effect that the introduction of environmental fiscal reform would have on an economic…
Environmental concern disappears with economic instability
From University of Southern California another lesson from the economic train wreck that is Greece; people stop worrying about the environment when you make cleaner fuels too expensive to use.…
Is There an Equine Version of Wind Turbine Syndrome?
While not much gets past WUWT, this story from Portugal has only recently gotten some press, well after its posting in March, and I think it warrants attention here. While…
Better US air quality since 1990 offers health benefits
From Brigham Young University: Breathing better, living longer Arden Pope’s students know him as an excellent economics teacher, but some would be surprised to learn that, thanks to him, the…
EPA sues Oklahoma utility for obeying the law
Guest post by David Middleton Just when you think that the EPA cannot possibly get any more idiotic… U.S. EPA sues OG&E over work at Oklahoma coal power plants Tue…
How Environmental Organizations Are Destroying The Environment
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The Washington Post reports: During an April visit to the San Francisco home of billionaire and environmental activist Tom Steyer, who created a political action…
Why The Parrotfish Should Be The National Bird
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Ecological alarmist scares have a lot in common with zombies. They seem to eat up people’s brains, they are mindless themselves, and most important, they…
Leveraging a Changing Climate: Recent advances in understanding how Species cope with Changing Conditions.
Guest essay by Daniel Bourke Introduction The concept of climate change has become a controversial one. By that it is not meant to be said that the happening of climate…
"A [Junk] Scientist’s Misguided Crusade" Against the Keystone XL Pipeline
Guest Post by David Middleton More improper activity from the Million Dollar Bureaucrat… A Scientist’s Misguided Crusade By JOE NOCERA Published: March 4, 2013 Last Friday, at 3:40 p.m., the…
"Canadian oil sands pollute nearby lakes. Report is blow to Keystone pipeline." (Or Not)
The only “blow to the Keystone pipeline” is in the exaggerated reporting of the science… The “report” (Kurek et al., 2013) did find slight elevations (relative to 1950) of polycyclic…
Erratic Environment May Be Key to Human Evolution
Versus Image Credit: Wikipedia Image Credit: Anne Knock From Live Science: At Olduvai Gorge, where excavations helped to confirm Africa was the cradle of humanity, scientists now…
The Atlantic Magazine's '5 Charts About Climate Change That Should Have You Very, Very Worried'… Worried about scientific illiteracy.
Guest post by David Middleton I ran into this gem on Real Clear Energy this morning… The article cites terrifying new reports commissioned by the World Bank and the CIA…
More 'truth is stranger than fiction' from Seinfeld
I’ve always said that the global warming story is just like another product of Vandelay Industries, as some of the more alarming parts foisted on us are simply sitcom variety…
Got a warming wound? Rub a salt marsh in it.
From the University of Virginia, comes yet another incomplete press release that doesn’t give the name of the paper or the DOI: Salt marsh carbon may play role in slowing…
Inconvenient bacteria eats a good portion Deepwater Horizon oil spill
From the University of Rochester , those darned bacteria are ruining the eco photo-ops. Video follows. At least 200,000 tons of oil and gas from Deepwater Horizon spill consumed by…
The "Toxic Twenty": Keeping America's Lights On
Guest Post by David Middleton The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is out with their latest “Toxic Twenty” list… The NRDC’s report is standard green claptrap. Kentucky led the Toxic…
Plants: An efficient green technology for cities
From the American Chemical Society Green plants reduce city street pollution up to 8 times more than previously believed Trees, bushes and other greenery growing in the concrete-and-glass canyons of…
Was “Good Science” Really Applied in the Recent Mercury Report Issued by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection?
Guest essay Dr. Willie Soon (Note: the newspaper The Florida Times-Union at jacksonville.com refuses to allow Dr. Soon to post a rebuttal fitting the word length and other editorial restrictions,…
Oh the Entomology! Light pollution "radically altered" environment – making more bugs, more bug predators
From the University of Exeter , some buggy science. Next thing you know, PETA will be campaigning to have us shut off street lighting to “save the insects”. I’m surprised…
Racing To The Mountaintop at 0.4 Metres Per Year
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony highlighted a study called “Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe’s Mountain Peaks” (paywalled here , hereinafter Pauli2012). The Supplementary Online Information (SOI) is here.…
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