Day: May 16, 2013

Reuters: ‘Obama climate agenda faces Supreme Court reckoning’

Analysis: Obama climate agenda faces Supreme Court reckoning | Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/16/us-usa-court-environment-idUSBRE94F07820130516 (Reuters) – With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other industry groups, along with states such […]

Analysis: Warmist John Cook’s fallacy ‘97% consensus’ study is a marketing ploy — ‘Cook’s study shows 66% of papers didn’t endorse man-made global warming Cook calls this ‘an overwhelming consensus’

Excerpt: Most of these consensus papers assume the theory is correct but never checked. They are irrelevant. The papers listed as endorsing man-made global warming includes “implicit endorsement”, which makes this study more an analysis of funding rather than evidence. Cook gives the following as an example of a paper with implicit endorsement: “‘. . . carbon sequestration […]

‘Low Climate Sensitivity Making its Way into the Mainstream Press’

Most Arctic Ice In A Decade — ‘Highest for the date since 2002’ — ‘Temperatures in the Arctic are almost 5C below normal’

Oops. Bad Timing: ‘The UK Guardian has been whining mindlessly about Alaska melting, in the middle of Alaska’s coldest spring on record’

Another blow to ‘consensus’ science: ‘Pacific islands growing, not sinking…Climate scientists have expressed surprise at findings that many low-lying Pacific islands (including media hyped Tuvalu) are growing, not sinking’

Obama urges public to attack Senate opponents of EPA nominee for being ‘climate deniers’

Acting EPA chief asks EPA Inspector General to investigate FOIA fee discrimination against conservative groups

Senate Committee votes party line 10-8 to endorse EPA nominee

Scientist in carbon-based chemistry dissents from man-made global warming: Declares man-made climate fears a ‘pseudo-science’