The Government’s New Climate Report: Shading Science for Alarmism — MasterResource

A word of warning to the readers of the CCSP’s report on the Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States: while the above examples don’t invalidate the whole document, they do serve as a reminder to keep foremost in mind that the presentation of issues in the report reflects the CCSP authors’ desires for they way they would like things to be, rather than the way that things actually are. In some instances these overlap, in (too many) others, they don’t.

Veggie Power: Plant-based Jet Fuel [Allegedly] Outperforms Oil-based Jet Fuel - Environmental Capital - WSJ

To quench the global aviation industry’s thirst with jatropha and camelina, says Boeing’s director of sustainable biofuels strategy Darrin Morgan, would require planting an area the size of Germany. But with some crop science and improved yields on these plants, the idea of using biofuels in airplanes “actually starts to add up,” he says.

And there’s one final, but kind of important, point: The cost of producing biofuels remains higher than the cost of jet fuel.

Chamber Launches Informative New Waxman-Markey Site | GlobalWarming.org

Yesterday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a public web page dedicated exclusively to the Waxman-Markey bill. The page is accessible here.

The purpose of this very basic page is to give visitors the 10 or 15 most relevant documents to Waxman-Markey, so as not to overwhelm them. It’s a great place to learn more about an energy-rationing bill that threatens to torpedo economic growth in America.