Businesses forced to dump carbon tax hike on customers | JunkScience.com

The carbon [dioxide] tax working exactly as intended: “SMALL business owners, farmers and home renovators are among those already feeling the effect of the carbon tax as prices soar just two weeks after the scheme was introduced.”

Texas’ Petrochemical Boom Fuels Hopes and Concerns | JunkScience.com

The largest chemical complex in the Western Hemisphere resembles a city of pipes and stacks. And Dow Chemical, its owner, is spending more than $4 billion to make it even larger.

Top Twenty USHCN2 12 Month periods | Real Science

Most of the hottest 12 month periods in the USHCN2 database occured during the 1930s. USHCN2 only goes back to 1895, and does not include the 1884/1885 warm period which the daily temperature records show was the hottest.

With cooler temperatures prevailing now, it is unlikely that the raw full year 2012 will beat 1934.

Another flight of fancy: The Ecology of Disease | JunkScience.com

Actually “nature” never does anything to “provide services” – that’s an artificial human construct. We exploit bees doing what they do for our advantage but that does not mean “nature” is “providing” any sort of service at all. We are simply good at exploiting that which we find around us and/or altering it to better suit ourselves. It is extremely foolish to anthropomorphize the unimproved environment and pretend it is “serving us”. What you see is what you get – exploit it or improve it because it is a dangerous and hostile environment in its unimproved state.

“Ecosystem services” are imaginary values applied by pagans and gaia-cranks to “protect” things from humans who would otherwise improve them or modify them to make them better suit our purpose. They were invented because tales of forest fairies and angry spirits no longer work to suppress human development

Articles: IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Junk

If the IPCC's reports were flawed, as a many global warming "skeptics" have long claimed, then the scientific footing of the man-made global warming movement -- the environmental movement's "mother of all environmental scares" -- is undermined. The Obama administration's war on coal may be unnecessary. Billions of dollars in subsidies to solar and wind may have been wasted. Trillions of dollars of personal income may have been squandered worldwide in campaigns to "fix" a problem that didn't really exist.