THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Global warming causing poor education, forced marriage, forced labor, and sexual violence

Amazing what a 0.7C change in temperature over the past 161 years can do. Add them to The List.

MILLOY: Show us the bodies, EPA - Washington Times

To paraphrase cinematic sports agent Jerry McGuire, “Show me the bodies.”

While that may sound harsh, given that the EPA is about to kill hundreds of thousands of jobs and cost our crippled economy countless billions of dollars, Republicans must demand some sort of proof that the alleged harms are indeed happening.

The EPA says air pollution kills tens of thousands of people annually. This is on a par with traffic accident fatalities. While we can identify traffic accident victims, air pollution victims are unknown, unidentified and as far as anyone can tell, figments of EPA’s statistical imagination.

It ought not to be too much to ask the EPA to produce some tangible evidence that air pollution is causing actual harm to real people. The EPA should have to demonstrate that its ever-tightening air quality and emissions standards are producing actual benefits.

Jones damns his own lack of scientific rigor | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The Government’s proposed tax is not on carbon, a solid such as soot. It is on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

For Jones, a former science minister, to repeat this deceitful and unscientific language is illustrative of a general collapse in the quality of rational discourse.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Oh No! A single hydroelectric dam produces as much CO2 as 10 million people burning fossil fuels

According to a paper published online today in the Journal of Geophysical Research, a single hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian Amazon is producing as much greenhouse gas emissions as are generated by almost 10 million people burning fossil fuels. The paper states, "The total annual greenhouse gas emission from Balbina dam, ...was...equivalent to approximately 50% of the CO2 emissions derived from the burning of fossil fuels in the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo." The 2010 population of Sao Paulo was 19,683,975 inhabitants. Dams are producing this so-called 'pollution' due to outgassing of CO2 and methane from the rush of water through turbines. Another 'green' energy source down the drain?