Chu chooses a BMW over a Volt | JunkScience.com

His wife, anyway.

Dave Martosko reports at the Daily Caller:

In a piece of video that shot across the Internet Thursday like a sports car doing zero-to-60 in four seconds, Energy Secretary Stephen Chu told the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power that he does not own a car. But The Daily Caller has confirmed that Chu’s wife does — and it’s quite an automobile.

There’s no Chevy Volt in the Chu household’s driveway. TheDC has obtained motor vehicle registration records showing that Jean Chu (née Fetter) is the owner of a 2002 BMW 325i, a sports sedan with a gas-guzzling 6-cylinder engine.

Editorial: The Guardian doesn’t give a damn about accurate reporting nor its own editorial code | Watts Up With That?

Strong headline, I know. But the headline is rooted in actions (and lack thereof). Readers may recall the smear job done by Guardian reporter Suzanne Goldenberg to Tom Harris at Carleton University in Ottawa which I covered in detail here: Fake moral outrage translated to smear: media upset that students can choose to take an elective course on climate change at Carleton.

Readers may also recall that in that story there’s a recorded transcript of the interview with Harris by Goldenberg, and it seems nothing substantive that Mr. Harris had to say made it in to Goldenberg’s story.

Flashback: Kleiner Perkins partner revels in Obama venture capitalism | JunkScience.com

In June 2009, Kleiner Perkins managing partner Ray Lane rhapsodized about the Obama administration’s “clean tech” subsidies.

Global Climate Scam » State Approves Wind Farm near Wildlife Refuge

State officials have approved a proposed 49-turbine wind farm in Eastern North Carolina that critics worry could kill migrating birds from the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge nearby.

Shameless: Deniergate’s Gleick keynotes water conference | JunkScience.com

Appalling.

KQED news reports:

… Notably missing from Gleick’s talk — which focused on a wide range of global and regional water issues central to the Pacific Institute’s core mission — was any specific mention of last month’s confession that he had impersonated of a board member of the Chicago-based, libertarian Heartland Institute to obtain internal documents outlining the group’s anti-climate change campaign….