Pat Michaels is no longer the Commonwealth of Virginia’s official Climatologist. As per DeSmogBlog’s discussion,
Pat Michaels, whose utility industry funding, private research and controversial views on global warming made him a lightning rod on climate change issues, left the office too politicized, according to officials at the University of Virgina.
George Allen’s Global Warming Denying Friend Fired?
September 27th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Global Warming · skeptic
Is Lomborg’s world heating up?
September 27th, 2007 · No Comments
Bjorn Lomborg is a reckless economist, pursuing disingenuous truthiness in arguing that fighting global warming isn’t worth the effort. While, Lomborg has received serious criticism after serious criticism of his work all over the globe, it looks like his world is heating up a bit as the Post-Carbon Institute has put together a collection of [...]
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Comments to John Dingell
September 27th, 2007 · No Comments
As noted in Dingell: A dingbat proposal re Global Warming?, Representative John Dingell (D-auto industry?) has put out his thoughts re a potential carbon tax and is asking for comments. After the fold are the comments that I have submitted (so far) for committee consideration.
Tags: Congress · Energy · Global Warming · John Dingell · carbon tax · climate change · electricity · emissions · environmental
House talks back to WH re Global Warming
September 27th, 2007 · No Comments
We have both good and bad signs when it comes to Global Warming coming out almost, it seems, on an hourly basis.
Well, in the real world, the situation doesn’t look so good, with bad news emerging every day, such as algae growth increases in far north lakes showing warming.
In the real world, well, we still [...]
Tags: Congress · Global Warming · climate change
Dingell: A dingbat proposal re Global Warming?
September 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Representative John Dingell (D-auto industry?) has put out his thoughts re a potential carbon tax and is asking for comments. Dingell stated that
Because of the complexity and importance of the issue, this is the right time to open up a public discourse on a carbon emissions fee bill.
Representative Dingell has, well, been far from a [...]
Tags: Global Warming · John Dingell · carbon tax · environmental · government energy policy