An “Inconvenient Truth” about Composting : Sustainablog

That means that the “carbon footprint” of the 100 lbs of N in compost fertilizer is 6,403 lbs CO2. That is 14.6 times as much as for synthetic urea fertilizer!

C3: What If NCDC or NASA Had Not Been Allowed To Manipulate The Temperature Records? Would We Have Saved $79 Billion?

Read here. Was $79 billion spent on climate research because politicians were "convinced" by climate scientists wielding bogus temperature records. What if politicians had been presented with the actual temperature records from the start? Would that $79 billion have turned into $5 billion instead? Highly likely.

EPW FACT OF THE DAY: FREE-MARKET?

FACT: When it comes to writing legislation, however, these cheerleaders of markets sing a different tune. Take the Waxman-Markey bill as a salient example. The centerpiece of Waxman-Markey is a cap-and-trade scheme, but a significant portion of the bill is a liberal litany of mandates...

Utilities Fail to Buy Republican Support - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

So, what we're left with is that rent-seeking utilities failing to buy Republican support for their scheme under which the rent-seekers partner with the states to pick your pockets for no climatic impact (even if you accept all of the fevered assumptions) — which is precisely how Enron envisioned this scheme when they came up with this, as internal memoranda reveal. It's good old fashioned nest-feathering. With a real plot like that, it's bewildering the media have to make other ones up.