- Bishop Hill blog - Biofuels bust

The New Times reports that a judge has decided that the US Environmental Protection Agency is a bad joke. The EPA's biofuels mandate has been officially ruled to be absurd, because of its requirement that fuel companies incorporate cellulosic ethanol in their products whether it was possible to buy such ethanol or not.

China’s wind sector lost $1.6 billion in 2012 | JunkScience.com

“A major contributing element was that China’s power generation capacity rose considerably in 2012, and wind power gave way to thermal and nuclear power.”

Enviros oppose ‘clean energy’ in Ireland | JunkScience.com

Windmills would be eyesores.

Quark Soup by David Appell: Is the Future "Bleak?"

I do not think Jim Yong Kim knows that the future will be "bleak" if we don't act "soon."

NOAA Deception Over 2012 Heatwave « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

A quick look at the NCDC graph of summer temperatures for Kansas shows straightaway that NOAA have not been telling the whole truth. Temperatures were much higher in 1934 and 1936. Indeed there have been eight summers, since 1895, that have been hotter than 2012.