Archive » Enviro-nitwits

A Columbia U. alum sends along info about a Van Jones performance at the business school next week. If you are a current student or alum and can get to the event, be sure to RSVP and let us know what he’s up to:
The Green Collar Economy: /A discussion with Van Jones, President Obama’s former [...]

Last laugh.

The Obama administration’s eco-crats — who have had free reign in their war on carbon — are now getting push back from…Democrats.
It’s about time:
Three House Democrats are now pushing legislation that would stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating carbon emissions—a decision the agency announced in December — without express permission from the Congress.
Chairman [...]

Last month, I compiled a link round-up for you on ClimateGate con artist Michael Mann of Penn State University.
Here’s the very latest on the academic fraud probe by Penn State:
Inquiry into climate scientist moves to next phase
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
University Park, Pa. — An internal inquiry by Penn State into the research and scholarly activities [...]

Yesterday, I noted the tax hike on drilling in the White House budget.
The Institute for Energy Research further exposes how the president raises taxes on efficient energy to give subsidies to inefficient energy:
The Obama Administration today released its proposed FY 2011 budget. Not surprisingly, it contained $36.5 billion in new taxes over ten years on [...]

GOP cap-and-tax 8′er Mark Kirk won the GOP primary in Illinois for the Senate seat formerly occupied by Barack Obama.
After pandering to enviro-nitwits and casting his vote in favor of the largest energy tax increase in American history based on shoddy science and Al Gore-led fear-morning, Rep. Kirk promised Illinois voters he wouldn’t pander the [...]

In his State of the Union Address, President Obama purported to reach across the aisle by endorsing a “new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants”…before pushing cap and trade.
The nearly $4 trillion budget he released today exposes his nuclear lie.
It zeroes out funds for the besieged Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility in Nevada — [...]

The Massachusetts Miracle wasn’t just a wake-up call for Democrats. It was a wake-up call for Big Government Republicans, Business-As-Usual Republicans, McCain Republicans, and Climate Change Republicans. Lindsey Graham is all four, of course.
In October, he penned an enviro-nitwit op-ed with John Kerry signing on to the Democrats’ massive cap-and-tax plan.
He’s singing a different tune [...]

Three items for you about Michael Mann, ClimateGate bully/eco-con artist…
1) First, watch the news report from Pennsylvania — where Mann is under investigation by Penn State:

Background from the Commonwealth Foundation. They’ve called for an independent investigation and expose Penn State’s conflicts of interests in the matter.
2) The Foundry flags Mann’s $514,000 stimulus windfall (via Mindy [...]

Gird your loins.
The latest job numbers are out and they’re worse than expected.
Which means it’s time for another White House green jobs boondoggle campaign:
The White House pitched Friday’s jobless report as the start to stabilization while President Barack Obama planned to push for another $5 billion to help create much-needed jobs.
Obama planned an afternoon [...]

As if you needed more evidence of the boondoggle-ishness of the Green Jobs racket, two items for your file:
1) Via Inside Charm City, Maryland’s Democrat Senators dole out green job funding to an SEIU partnership…
Senators Benjamin L. Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski (both D-Md.) today announced the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act includes funding for [...]

Heh:
In what might become an annual tradition, an ice sculpture of former Vice President Al Gore has taken its place in front of Thrifty Liquor along Airport Way. The two-ton “Frozen Gore” sculpture isn’t exactly a tribute. It’s a tongue-in-cheek critique of Gore’s vocal belief in man-made climate change, complete with hot air pouring out [...]

Frosty.

Anthony Watts has the latest on the eco-thuggery in Copenhagen:
Lord Monckton barred from Copenhagen conference – pushed to the ground by security
Lord Monckton reflects:
A few weeks ago, at a major conference in New York, I spoke about this tendency towards tyranny with Dr. Vaclav Klaus, the distinguished economist and doughty fighter for freedom and democracy [...]

The weatherization boondoggle.

Hmmmm. Left-wing radical billionaire George Soros has injected himself into the Copenhagen climate change talks. He is riding to the “rescue” of negotiators at loggerheads over the pricetag of global regulatory intervention to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Look:
The $10 billion a year proposed by rich nations to help the poor adapt to climate change is “not [...]

Al Gore is on his ClimateGate whitewash mission — and, as usual, ManBearPig isn’t going to let inconvenient facts get in the way of his eco-crusade.
He talked with Slate magazine’s John Dickerson and repeatedly pooh-poohed the scandalous ClimateGate e-mails as “more than 10 years old,” “over 10-year-old e-mails,” and “an e-mail exchange more than 10 [...]

Add another global warming lie to the stinking green heap:
EPA chief Lisa Jackson has denied that the greenhouse gas endangerment finding had anything to do at all with the Copenhagan climate change conference. Nope, don’t question the timing of the EPA’s war on carbon. Pure coincidence.
Except…
Jackson herself said the exact opposite in a statement [...]

Eco-czars of the Obama administration, activate!
Form of…a corrupted “scientific” finding on greenhouse gas “public endangerment.”
Timed for maximum impact on the Copenhagen global warming treaty talks, the Obama EPA is set to announce that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, paving the way for the green bureaucrats to radically regulate emissions.
Keeping an open mind [...]

Make sure you keep this list of 56 newspapers handy when looking for thorough, fair coverage of the ClimateChange scandal.
These are 56 newspapers that you cannot trust on the issue:

Today, the eco-herd of papers published a collective editorial whipping up hysteria over the issue in the face of massive data manipulation, suppression, and bullying of [...]

The chill wind of ClimateGate has blown over Al Gore’s $1,200-per handshake lecture at Copenhagen. He has canceled the hot-air hoedown.
ClimateDepot dubbed the crumbling global warming conference next week “Nopenhagen.”
Blow, winds of change, blow:
Former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday abruptly canceled a Dec. 16 personal appearance that was to be staged during the United [...]

Another gargantuan reason, in the wake of ClimateGate, to call the whole damned thing off:
When an estimated 16,500 delegates, activists and reporters descend upon Copenhagen Monday for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, a lot of hot air will follow.
The U.N. estimates the 12-day conference will create 40,584 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, roughly the [...]

Graph via Steve McIntyre
My syndicated column today looks at the global warming cultists in the Obama administration who are working overtime to paper over the ClimateGate scandal. Yesterday, Phil Jones, the head of the U.K.’s Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia stepped aside while the university investigates. Penn State prof Michael Mann, [...]

Inconvenient data.

Ah, science czar John Holdren.
He’s been hyping climate change catastrophe since the 1970s, has been a master of stonewalling critics of his population control zealotry, and knows how to hide behind friendly water-carriers in the media.
So, you won’t be surprised to learn he is smack dab in the middle of the exploding ClimateGate scandal.
Dr. Tim [...]

Yeah, you better pray.
I blogged the ClimateGate scandal last week. It keeps going — and growing. There are calls on both sides of the pond for an investigation into data manipulation. A former British lord is demanding an independent inquiry:
This morning Lord Lawson, who has reinvented himself as a prominent climate change sceptic since leaving [...]

On fire.

Population control has always been behind the green agenda:
The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.
The agency did not recommend countries set limits on how many children people should have, but said: [...]

Inconvenient truth.

Hey, there, lonely girl.