D.C. Government to [Pretend to] Switch to Wind Power for Electricity Needs

The D.C. government's agencies will be getting all of their electricity through wind power for at least a year...

Thanks, Tucson and Phoenix! - Warmist English Major Chris Mooney

I’m flying back to the east coast today, after a weekend and a bit more in Arizona [they don't have Skype there?], at the Tucson Festival of Books and then speaking to the Phoenix Area Skeptics Society.

EPA official who wanted to ‘crucify’ oil companies praised EPA nominee for help in ‘shaming states’ | WashingtonExaminer.com

Al Armendariz, the Environmental Protection Agency official who said regulators should “crucify” a few oil and gas companies as a warning to the industry, praised Gina McCarthy for proposing air rules that were “icing on the cake” for agency effort to “sham[e] the states” into greener policies.

Blame allergies on shifting climate? | The News Journal | delawareonline.com

Between 2001 and 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, asthma increased 12.3 percent, particularly among children, African Americans, poor people and women. During roughly that same time period, from 1997 to 2007, food allergies among children jumped up 18 percent.  [If the globe didn't warm during that time period, how could global warming cause food allergies to jump 18 percent?]