CNBC.com Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said Thursday he does not believe carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming. “I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that […]
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Trump wins U.S. Presidency! Climate Skeptics Rejoice! Set to dismantle & Defund UN/EPA climate agenda!
By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot Climate Depot publisher Marc Morano’s statement on President Elect Donald J. Trump: Morano: “Climate sanity has been restored to the U.S. No longer do we have to hear otherwise intelligent people in charge in DC blather on about how UN treaties or EPA regulations will control the Earth’s temperature […]
Trump-ing Hillary on EPA and Global Warming
By Steve Milloy, Breitbart.com If he lives up to his campaign rhetoric, a President Donald Trump would be a nightmare for the Environmental Protection Agency, radical environmentalism and the mandate- and subsidy-dependent “green” energy racket. I have paid close attention this campaign season to what every candidate has said about environmental issues. Almost all 17 […]
How Obama’s New CO2 Rules Will Impact Global CO2 Levels & Temperature
By Elmer Beauregard On Monday Obama came out with his new CO2 regulations increasing the amount of cuts from 30% to 32% of 2005 levels by 2030. James Hansen has come out saying these new cuts will have no effect on global CO2 levels or global temperature and for once I actually agree with him. […]
Sessions Dismantles EPA Chief For ‘Stunning’ Ignorance
By Cheryl Chumley, WorldNetDaily McCarthy unable to cite evidence of climate change Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., went head-to-head with Environmental Protection Agency’s Gina McCarthy during a recent congressional hearing on climate change, ultimately telling the federal bureaucrat: It’s unbelievable you can’t guarantee if models have been accurate. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing […]
The New Consensus: 100 Percent Of Scientists Agree That Global Warming ‘Stopped’ Or ‘Slowed Down’
By: Micheal Bastasch. The Obama administration and environmental groups have long claimed 97 percent of scientists agree that human activity is causing the Earth to warm, but there’s a new consensus they may be less willing to acknowledge. Using the same methodology as the vaunted “97 percent” paper by researcher John Cook, two climate scientists have […]
BREAKING: Senate report exposes the climate-environmental movement as being a cash machine controlling the EPA
How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA by: Anthony Watts. A new report was released today by the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, and it is damning. All this time that climate skeptics are accused of being in the employ of “big oil” is nothing more than […]
Report: EPA’s Claimed Benefits Of Climate Rule Overblown By 15-Fold
The Environmental Protection Agency has argued that its new climate rule will yield tens of billions of dollars in benefits in the coming decades by reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing U.S. power plants. But the supposed $30 billion in climate benefits in 2030 touted by the EPA is overstated, according to a new study […]
Obama administration hides use of bad science
The only thing that is clear is its motive for opacity. By: Marita Noon Six years later, we know that President Obama’s pledge to run the most transparent administration in history was merely a campaign promise, a White House talking point, and not a statement of management style. We’ve seen a series of highly publicscandals—Fast and Furious, Benghazi, […]
EPA Climate Policy Expert Sentenced To 32 Months For Fraud
Used time off to read about ways to ‘fine tune the capitalist system’ By Michael Isikoff – The EPA’s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison Wednesday for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could […]
Lisa Jackson Hires Lawyer for Email Concealment Fiasco
By Paul Chesser In a sign her troubles have undergone a significant expansion, the Washington Free Beacon reported last week that former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has hired a lawyer as new details of her use of private email accounts to conduct official government business were revealed. The agency and its previous head have still […]
McCarthy "Wholly Unqualified to serve as EPA Administrator, CEI Says
Nominee Has Misled on Major Regulations and Is Implicated in Email Scandal By Competitive Enterprise Institute Gina McCarthy has decades of experience as an environmental bureaucrat, but a number of factors make her wholly unqualified to serve as EPA Administrator, say experts at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. President Barack Obama nominated McCarthy on Monday to […]
Junk Science Unravels
Investors Business Daily Editorial Climate Change: The scientist who claimed that global warming threatens polar bears is under investigation. There’s a hole in Earth’s greenhouse. A cooler era lies ahead. That hiss is the hot air coming out of alarmists’ balloon. The global warming fraud is coming apart faster than the alarmists can repackage and […]
EPA asks NJ governor to reconsider decision to leave regional greenhouse gas initiative
By Angela Delli Santi Federal environmental regulators are urging Gov. Chris Christie to reconsider a decision to pull New Jersey from a 10-state greenhouse gas reduction program. Christie announced withdrawal from the program Thursday. Read the rest at the Daily Journal.
The Green Energy Economy Reconsidered
The last we saw such an economy was in the 13th Century By Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren “Green” energy such as wind, solar and biomass presently constitute only 3.6% of fuel used to generate electricity in the U.S. But if another “I Have a Dream” speech were given at the base of the […]