OOPS! Former Obama EPA Chief denies ‘War on Coal’ next to a ‘Coal Sucks’ poster

Office of Senator DeLeon Conversation with former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy California Senate February 8, 2017 Also see Daily Caller: http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/09/former-epa-chief-denies-war-on-coal-while-sitting-in-front-of-a-coal-sucks-poster/ Excerpt: The head of the EPA under President Barack Obama vehemently denied politicians and environmentalists waged a “war on coal.”There’s just one problem. She was sitting in front of a “coal sucks” poster in the […]

Former EPA Chief Denies War On Coal While Sitting In Front Of A ‘Coal Sucks’ Poster

MICHAEL BASTASCH 4:59 PM 02/09/2017 The head of the EPA under President Barack Obama vehemently denied politicians and environmentalists waged a “war on coal.” There’s just one problem. She was sitting in front of a “coal sucks” poster in the office of California’s top state senator. Former EPA chief Gina McCarthy huddled with Democratic lawmakers in […]

Former Obama EPA Chief concedes: ‘Climate change has become a religion’

Speaking in California, former Obama EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy admits, “climate change has become a religion — a politically induced religion”. GINA MCCARTHY: “I don’t know why climate change got to be a religion instead of a simple fact based science exercise but I do know that the actions that California is taking and others […]

GOP’ers who once smeared Trump pitch carbon tax to White House

By Thomas Richard Members of the conservative Climate Leadership Council, half of whom publicly denounced candidate #Donald Trump during the election, visited the White House yesterday to extol the benefits of a #carbon tax. In their view, such a tax would mark the first step toward fighting global warming while potentially gaining new constituents for […]

Coldest Winter In Decade Causes Energy Shortages Across Southeast Europe

As freezing weather triggered energy shortages across southeast Europe at the start of the year, Bulgaria’s refusal to export power was typical in a region where everyone had to fend for themselves. Nations from Greece to Hungary hoarded power last month in response to the coldest winter in a decade, exposing the weakness of the region’s power […]

100 sailors trapped in ice — in icebreaker — near Arctic outpost

The historic convoy to Pevek did not have a lucky outcome. Three vessels, among them an icebreaker, might not get loose before spring. By Atle Staalesen 9418 February 07, 2017 They were carrying construction materials for the new local port, built to facilitate the installation of Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant. It was a historic […]

New Paper: Glacier Melt Rates Were Up To 3 Times Greater, Faster During Early 20th Century

75% Of Total Modern Glacier Melt Occurred Before 1950 “[T]he retreat of the glaciers after about 1925 became rapid.  It was almost entirely during the [pre-1950] twentieth century warming that the Alpine glaciers disappeared from the valley floors up into the mountains.  Similarly great retreats occurred in Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, in the Americas, and on […]