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New York Investigating Anti-Fracking Lobbying by Yoko One, Mark Ruffalo, Robert De Niro
A formal complaint has been filed with a New York lobbying board to investigate whether Yoko Ono, Robert De Niro and nearly 200 other celebrities have violated state laws with their Artists Against Fracking activist group. Celebrities are well known for dabbling in social activism whether what they have to say makes sense or not [...]
Leonardo DiCaprio to Fly Jet Around World To Save the Environment
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is taking a break from acting to help save the environment by pursuing his environmental activism but maybe someone needs to tell him how “saving the environment” might work. DiCaprio told members of the entertainment media that after doing so many movies in a row he’s tired and needs a break from [...]
Softening The Blow: NPR Edits Word ‘Tax’ Out of Democrat Debate Performance
Voters do not like taxes. So, National Public Radio in New Hampshire seems to have thought it would be nice to help Maggie Hassan, the Democrat candidate for Governor, by doing a little editing work to take the word “tax” out of one of her answers at a recent candidates debate. The radio folks claimed [...]
Obama’s Strategy On Critical Natural Resources? More Solyndra’s!
A few weeks back President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney answered a series of questions as part of Science Debate 2012. I noticed one question that touches on topics previously covered here at Wizbang. Question 13 was as follows: Critical Natural Resources. Supply shortages of natural resources affect economic growth, quality of life, and national [...]
Why is the EPA Funding a Private Newspaper?
The Environmental Protection Agency has been indulging its inner propagandist by spending at least $3.5 million to float newspaper that is purportedly “reporting” on the EPA’s pet issues. Unfortunately for the readers of this newspaper, the fact that the EPA is its sugar daddy is never told the reading public. So much for an independent [...]
New Study Shows Half Of The Reported Global Warming In The USA Is Artificial
We’re a little late to the rodeo, but you should go see the big news from Anthony Watt and his team at Watts Up With That? Watt released a new paper that is the culmination of knowledge gleaned from five years of work by many volunteers and contributors to the SurfaceStations project started that he [...]
Climate Battle: Round 2
In an opinion piece titled “Global Warming Is Here to Stay”, Washington Post Columnist Eugene Robinson sides with anthropogenic global warming (AGW) enthusiasts: Yes, scientists are finally asserting a direct connection between long-term climate trends and short-term weather events. This was always a convenient dodge for climate change deniers. There might be a warming trend [...]
Tag-Team Climate Battle
Ladies and Gentlemen! In this corner, competing on behalf of people who claim that anthropogenic global warming is to blame for all recent extreme weather conditions . . . Climate scientist Jake Crouch, climate scientist Michael Mann and NASA scientist James Hansen! In the opposite corner, competing on behalf of people who deny that anthropogenic [...]
Conservatives Beating Bill Nye the Global Warming Guy, But Obama to the Rescue
=Bill Nye “the Science Guy” and CNN are a bit miffed at all those global warming scoffers. They are winning the public debate, beating the “consensus” opinion that global warming — or globaloney — is poised to destroy the planet. Nye and CNN host Carol Costello both dismissed any climate change skeptics with Costello claiming [...]
EPA ‘Crucifixion’ Video Pulled From Youtube, The Liberal Cockroach Behind the Move
Earlier in the week a video surfaced on Youtube of Al Armendariz, head of the EPA office in Dallas, saying that he and his agency planned to “crucify” any business that crosses them. The video caused a lot of consternation on Capitol Hill as well as recriminations for the EPA. But by Friday the video [...]
Report – fracking linked to recent Heartland earthquake activity
Uh-oh. But remember, correlation does not imply causation: Fracking Tied To Unusual Rise in Earthquakes in U. S. A spate of earthquakes across the middle of the U.S. is “almost certainly” man-made, and may be caused by wastewater from oil or gas drilling injected into the ground, U.S. government scientists said in a study. Researchers [...]
Healthcare Death Panels Are Inevitable
Much was made of Governor Sarah Palin’s use of the term “government death panels” to lambaste Obamacare. Left-wingers and Democrats everywhere scoffed at the term and accused Palin of demagogy and even lying. But the fact is, government death panels of all sorts are inevitable once government takes over healthcare. In fact, once government takes [...]
Heartland Institute: The ‘Gate’ Scandal That Never Was
Global warmists finally have an email “gate” of their own that they can turn against “deniers” and they are taking full advantage of it. The Warmists are excited that the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based state policy group, has been “outed” for attempting to undermine the religiously held tenets of global warming. Emails to that effect [...]
Will Obama “Keystone” Alaska’s Pebble Mine? You Betcha!
The Pebble Partnership has spent seven years and US$150 million compiling the Environmental Baseline Document (EBD) for one of the worlds largest gold an copper finds in Alaska. The report contains more than 27,000 pages of scientific data and analyses characterizing a broad range of environmental and social conditions in southwest Alaska – including climate, [...]
China’s Rare Earth Trade Restrictions Dismissed By WTO, WTF?
Sandra Wirtz at the American Resources Policy Network notes a big issue for the U.S. and EU in a recent World Trade Organization ruling: The World Trade Organization (WTO) recently made headlines over its decision to notify the Chinese government that it is in violation of international trade rules regarding the country’s raw materials export [...]
Himalayas not melting. Panic anyway.
Al Gore probably won’t be please by the following story that was published by The Guardian: The world’s greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows. The discovery has stunned scientists, who had [...]
Obama Set to Cost Each of Us Hundreds a Year in Higher Electric Costs
Barack Obama’s avalanche of needless regulations on coal-fueled power plants are going into effect and the net result will be the closing of hundreds of power plants all across the country just when our need for power is increasing. This will absolutely necessitate the cost of our power to skyrocket. But, this is exactly what [...]
What do Evergreen Energy, Ener1, and Amonix, Inc. all have in common?
They all received millions in Stimulus-related dollars from the Obama Administration – $5.3 million for Evergreen, $118 million for Ener1 (as well as a ‘good luck’ visit from Vice President Biden) and $5.9 million for Amonix. Oh, and they all either developed or manufactured “green energy” components – ‘alternative fuel’ products, batteries for electric vehicles, [...]
Obama DOE urged Solyndra to postpone layoff announcement until after Nov 2010 election
My colleague TWB just linked to a CBS News story that exposed a dozen risky loans made by the Department of Energy to ‘green energy’ companies. Five of those companies including Solyndra, have now filed for bankruptcy protection. This week’s Friday White House document dump also yielded more interesting information about the crony relationship between [...]
Mercury In Retrograde
On my local radio station, there’s an ad that’s in fairly heavy rotation. It features “Pastor Dawn” of the “Evangelical Environmental Network,” and wants me to thank my Senator (Kelly Ayotte, R-NH) for her “leadership” in preserving the EPA’s ability to regulate mercury levels in the air — in the interests of protecting our children [...]
Photos Of The Minot Flood
Wizbang blogger emeritus Rob Port uploaded over four hundred pictures of the devastating flooding in Minot, North Dakota.
Forget the people, save our cronies!
Although my colleague Rodney Graves touched briefly on this story in an earlier post, I had already planned to publish a few comments about it this morning so here goes.This…
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