DOJ: Art collector used EPA green gas program for $15M scam | JunkScience.com

EPA recently denied it knew the program was susceptible to fraud.

“Justice Department attorneys say that the Environmental Protection Agency’s requirement that gasoline and diesel refiners either use a certain amount of green fuel that is not commercially available or purchase an exemption provided the financing for a scam artist to buy $15 million worth of art.”

State Department Keystone pipeline report puts Obama on climate hot seat - National environmental policy | Examiner.com

Hurricane Sandy brought the words “global warming” and “climate change” out of the pollution-filled closet.

CarbonStory Launches Crowd Funding Platform for Climate Change Projects

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Who is the Most anti-Science of Them All? | SkeptEco

What about Mooney’s contention that “wrong beliefs are harmful in proportion to their bad consequences”? He claims that opposing the “science” of climate change will lead to a “global disaster that we are going to regret for all time- so how could it be bigger than that?” This seems to be an ideologically loaded statement that is a far remove from the “consensus science” on global warming, which can only give us different scenarios of how much warming based on different emissions trajectories, none of which there is any great certainty about as Mooney is implying. He seems to have slipped seamlessly from the science of CO2 as a warming gas and that humans are contributing to warming, to just the kind of alarmist rhetoric that Gore was guilty of.