Wednesday, August 01, 2012

NCDC Scientist’s Comments Are Consistent With A Political Agenda | Real Science
Brilliant thinking. He is saying the drought is less extreme than past ones, and that is consistent with more extreme weather due to climate change.

Heavy rain is forecast this week for much of the corn belt.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Why Do I Think This Penalty Would Have Been Waived on GE or Dreamworks?
The Environmental Protection Agency has slapped a $6.8 million penalty on oil refiners for not blending cellulosic ethanol into gasoline, jet fuel and other products. These dastardly petroleum mongers are being so intransigent because cellulosic ethanol does not exist. It remains a fantasy fuel. The EPA might as well mandate that Exxon hire Leprechauns.
C3: Per NOAA, Global Warming Is Not Accelerating, CO2 Is Not Earth's Temperature "Thermostat"
Doomsday climate scientists and alarmists state that CO2 causes "accelerating" global warming and it is the globe's "thermostat" - the actual NOAA temperature dataset debunks those anti-science claims
A Glimpse of the Alternative Fuel Future - NYTimes.com
While a variety of new fuel technologies are advancing, policymakers can be assured that the internal combustion engine will remain dominant for decades, the National Petroleum Council told the Department of Energy on Wednesday in a report.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Cap and Trade and the Corporate State
For years, one of the problems I have had with the way CO2 cap and trade systems were structured was a fear that these systems would devolve into cronyism, with the companies best able to lobby the government getting allocations while less connected companies had to pay. It seems this is already occuring in California:

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