Category Archives: Climate

Yoko ducks the fracking truth in a V-12 Mercedes. #rsrh #imagineallthehypocrites #1%

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Steve Maley

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/18/fracking-debate-ono-lennon-sarandon-tour “[Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon] keep secret the exact location of their farm, where Ono and John Lennon famously tended a herd of cows [while sheltering their prodigious income from high U.K. tax rates – Ed.], but they will … Continue reading →

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Endangered Species a Victim of Brazilian Deforestation: Could Global Warming be to Blame?

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Steve Maley

Once plentiful to the point of being considered a nuisance, sightings of Pthirus pubis in its natural habitat are said to be fewer in number than at any time in recorded history. As reported in The Guardian (UK), scientists report that … Continue reading →

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Climate Change, Climate Skeptics and Climate Fools

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Steve Maley

Under eleven grafs of organic compost, the NYT Green Blog buries its discomfiting lede: unless we’re willing to get serious about nuclear energy, it’s all just talk. Continue reading →

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Is a Carbon Tax in our Future?

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Steve Maley

As folk wisdom tells us, “Where there’s smoke, there’s carbon emissions.” And where there are carbon emissions, there are internationalists hell-bent on hobbling the American economy in the name of Global Warming. Several recent signs: In 2010, the Treasury Department … Continue reading →

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‘Eco-Taxes’ Planned for a Second Obama Term?

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Steve Maley

The issue of Climate Change has been a no-show in the 2012 election cycle; one would think that ManBearPig had been named an endangered species. But a two-year study commisioned by Barack Obama’s Treasury Department will recommend ways to “green” … Continue reading →

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The Abounding Promise of Solar Energy #rsrh

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Steve Maley

From Human Events: Well, yesterday, The Denver Post detailed the criminal investigation of Abound Solar, a defunct solar-panel manufacturer in Colorado that was run on taxpayer “investments,” for securities fraud, consumer fraud and financial misrepresentation. Abound shuttered its Colorado plant during the … Continue reading →

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Sea ice shuts down Shell’s Arctic drill rig after one day of operations #rsrh

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Steve Maley

Shell Halts Arctic Drilling Right After It Began “The company has been repeatedly stymied by equipment problems, regulatory hurdles, persistent sea ice and legal challenges from Alaska Natives and environmental groups. Shell had hoped to complete as many as four … Continue reading →

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Scientists Solve the Paradox of Why Oceans Exude So Much Methane – NYT Green Blog

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Steve Maley

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/solving-the-ocean-methane-paradox/?smid=tw-nytimesgreen&seid=auto “The discovery goes a long way to providing the missing piece of the ocean methane puzzle. “Yes we’ve solved an interesting little mystery,” Dr. Metcalf said. “But I think it’s much more than that.” “While 4 percent of the … Continue reading →

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Here comes Isaac! #rsrh

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Steve Maley

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=pill1&meas=wdpr&uom=E&time_diff=-5&time_label=CDT Five-day wind and pressure plot for Pilottown, LA, at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Update: 17:00 CDT Here’s the image just before 14:00 CDT Tuesday. Steady winds of 45 kts, gusts to 55, barometric pressure 29.13 in and … Continue reading →

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@yokoono, Sean Lennon & Jimmy Fallon rip off Bob Dylan in ‘Don’t Frack My Mother’. Really. #rsrh

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Steve Maley

H/T Steve Everley Skip to about 6:20. “Yoko is a supreme intellectual!” Definitely NSFW. Remember those fabulous ’70s?

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