Obama takes over fracking « Don Surber

The president Jay Rockefeller waited all his life for assumed command of the fracking oil fields of western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and northern  West Virginia on Friday. The president has no authority from Congress or the Constitution to do so, but by golly he is taking over fracking.

We’ll see if Democratic Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, Democratic state Attorney General Darrell McGraw or Democratic Senator Joe Manchin will take any action against this unconstitutional attack on West Virginia.

Spectacularly Poor Climate Science At NASA | Real Science

For the past 30 years, NASA climate scientists under the leadership of Dr. Hansen have demonstrated nearly complete incompetence in forecasting, and they have tampered with data to try to hide their mispredictions.

Ghosts of green schemes past fuel warning on public service job cuts - National News - National - General - Moonee Valley Weekly

In an interview with the Herald yesterday, Senator Milne said the government's record in rolling out green schemes such as green loans and solar rebates was not good and it could ill-afford to bungle the biggest of them all.

''In the area of climate change we have just developed a huge, comprehensive, internally consistent package to respond to the climate crisis,'' she said. ''It has four pillars: renewable energy, energy efficiency, the carbon farming initiative and emissions trading.

''This is a highly complex field; it's going to be the biggest reform of this government and the one that in history will be looked back upon as a significant achievement of this term of government.