Thursday, September 20, 2012

Nature: Don’t be so quick to blame extreme weather events on climate change | Examiner.com
As Nature points out, there is no empirical evidence that stands up to scrutiny and claims to the contrary only look foolish.
Global Warming Causing Economic Development in Northern Canada - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Mine, baby, mine!
Air pollution chief rejects calls to change California's new greenhouse gas program - Business - The Sacramento Bee
Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, said the carbon market is designed to minimize the impact on businesses.
A "Mean Green", Obama Wages War Against Cheap Energy - Forbes
It wasn’t that long ago that Al Gore and other mean greens designated natural gas as the fossil fuel of the future, but now that it is turning out to be superabundant, and therefore has become dirt-cheap, they have turned against it with a vengeance. The Sierra report announces, “We’re going to be preventing new gas plants from being built wherever we can.” More quietly, White House energy aide Heather Zichal followed up with an announcement this summer that Salazar’s Interior Department will unveil new rules regulating “fracking” sometime after the election.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"White House energy aide Heather Zichal followed up with an announcement this summer that Salazar’s Interior Department will unveil new rules regulating “fracking” sometime after the election."

Sounds as if they already know they have won the election.

Anonymous said...

Re: the Sacramento Bee article.

I noticed the following paragraph from the Sac Bee article:

"Pacific Coast Producers has a tomato processing plant in Woodland that is already being asked to buy carbon credits by New York investment bankers."

I've also noticed that some major environmental groups have many former bankers on their boards.