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The EPA's Power Grab
Submitted by Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D on 12.28.2009
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 15 - 12/28/2009 – The climate campaign, built step-by-step over the last 20 years, has reached its Waterloo. The Copenhagen conference that ended Friday was an exercise in political theater. It not only failed to produce a binding agreement, but the potential emissions curbs it endorsed fall far below what climate orthodoxy demands, while the proposed wealth transfer from rich nations to poor nations is a political nonstarter.
Blown Away
Submitted by Thomas Tanton on 12.24.2009
The Detroit Free Press has reported on the initial Ludington and Pentwater resident reaction to a massive wind turbine installation construction proposal. If allowed to move forward, advocates claim the installation is capable of producing 1,000 megawatts of power while crowding more than 100 square miles of Lake Michigan.
What climategate really tells us
Submitted by Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D on 12.12.2009
AL Gore and the rest of the die-hard climate campaigners are huffing and puffing that nothing in the e-mails and documents that were hacked or leaked from the Climate Research Unit in England have any bearing on what we know about climate change or the political response we should make to deal with it.
Scientists Behaving Badly
Submitted by Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D on 12.7.2009
Slowly and mostly unnoticed by the major news media, the air has been going out of the global warming balloon. Global temperatures stopped rising a few years ago, much to the dismay of the climate campaigners. The U.N.'s upcoming Copenhagen conference--which was supposed to yield a binding greenhouse gas emissions reduction treaty as a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol--collapsed weeks in advance and remains on life support pending Obama's magical intervention.
The Big Cutoff
Submitted by James Taranto on 12.7.2009
The latest global-warmist email is revealed not by the East Anglia whistle-blower but by Steven Hayward (who by the way has a fine overview of the climate-science scandal in The Weekly Standard). The email's author, Michael Schlesinger, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Illinois, was so proud of what he had to say to New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin that he decided to send a copy to Hayward--and, one supposes, to Schlesinger's entire email list:
The Gate Crash of 2009
Submitted on 12.7.2009
The city of Washington has been collectively aghast at the spectacle of Michaela and Tareq Salahi, the fun couple from Virginia wine country who seem to have talked their way into the first state dinner of the Obama administration.
China's not-so-ambitious 'carbon intensity' goal
Submitted by Neil Reynolds on 12.2.2009
It made headlines around the world last week when China purportedly announced a historic commitment to reduce its "carbon intensity" - the greenhouse gases it emits per unit of GDP. "China unveiled firm targets," The Guardian said, "for controlling the world's biggest carbon footprint for the first time."
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