Anthony Watts, the scientifically-illiterate host of Watts Up With That, has been running a silly initiative called the Surface Stations Project through which he is trying to invalidate recent historical temperature records in the US to prove that global warming is a HOAX. His belief is that these surface stations are too often located close [...]
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Just six days into office, Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson has signed an agreement that will let Sunflower Electric Power Corp build one 895-MW coal-fired power plant near Holcomb. The company had originally wanted to build two 700-MW coal plants, but this compromise will overcome a two-year stalemate that saw former governor Kathleen Sibelius veto [...]
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On Earth Day, Canada’s Environment Minister Jim Prentice issued the following statement:
As Canada’s Environment Minister and an avid outdoorsman, I am committed to preserving and enhancing our environment for current and future generations.
Canada faces challenges and opportunities on the environment. We need to build a dynamic and vibrant economy, while balancing the need to protect [...]
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Posted in Double Dumb Ass Award, USA on Feb 17th, 2009
George Will wrote an embarrassingly inept column for The Washingston Post entitled Dark Green Doomsayers that would almost be laughable had it not been written by a supposedly respected member of the elite press corp.
Will begins by opening a few canards, including the old classic line about scientists worried about global cooling in the 1970s [...]
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Dear readers…
I shall be honest and let you in on a little secret. We can find solutions for most of the changes we need to make to usher in a low-carbon world, but the great minds that I read for enlightenment don’t have a solution for air travel.
Brilliant men like Joe Romm and [...]
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Every so often at One Blue Marble, we’re going to present the Climate Change Double Dumb Ass Award to the man or woman who does something really moronic during the previous week.
Truth to tell, every seven days brings dozens of potential winners… Politicians who put personal gain before the welfare of their constituents… Columnists who [...]
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