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Posts Tagged ‘ greenhouse gas emissions ’

The Current Wisdom: Better Model, Less Warming

January 11, 2011
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Posted by Patrick J. Michaels The Current Wisdom is a series of monthly posts in which Senior Fellow Patrick J. Michaels reviews interesting items on global warming in the scientific literature that may not have received the media attention that they deserved, or have been misinterpreted in the popular press. The Current Wisdom only comments on science appearing in the refereed, peer-reviewed literature, or that has been peer-screened prior to presentation at a scientific congress. Better Model, Less Warming Bet you haven’t seen this one on TV:  A newer,...

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How EPA Could Destroy 7.3 Million Jobs

December 3, 2010
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How EPA Could Destroy 7.3 Million Jobs November 12, 2010 William F. Shughart II Washington Examiner Environmental Protection Agency officials Wednesday provided power companies and states with new guidance on EPA’s plans to regulate greenhouse gases. A D.C. lobbyist for two major power companies told Bloomberg News that “the energy and manufacturing sectors will essentially be in a construction moratorium” as a consequence. Here we are, with 15 million Americans unemployed and millions more underemployed, and the EPA is moving blindly ahead with new regulations that will increase dramatically...

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Prospective Employment Effects of California Proposition 23

October 8, 2010
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If approved by the California electorate this November, Proposition 23 will suspend the implementation of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) until the California unemployment rate declines to 5.5 percent or less for four consecutive quarters.  AB 32 directed the California Air Resources Board to begin developing discrete early actions to reduce greenhouse gases while also preparing a scoping plan to identify how best to reach the 2020 emissions limit of 427 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases. Given the increasingly...

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MBCA Extorts $120,000 from Wal-Mart

March 7, 2010
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MBCA Extorts $120,000 from Wal-Mart

I guess Wal-Mart didn’t get the memo either. Using the “Junk Science” of “green house emissions” the Morongo Basin Conservation Association (MBCA) has extorted $120,000 from Wal-Mart as a condition to build the Wal-Mart Super Center. In other words, you pay the MBCA $120,000 and they will support any damned thing you want. Funny how dead Presidents can co-opt a supposed group looking out for the little critters so they can use that money to further attack public use of public lands. How about this little letter being emailed...

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Desert Air Board Asks for Relief from Job-Killing Regulations

February 26, 2010
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Desert Air Board Asks for Relief from Job-Killing Regulations

The Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District’s Governing Board on January 25 voted to send a letter to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and other top state officials requesting the repeal or suspension of the state law related to limits on greenhouse gas emissions, citing potentially devastating impacts to California’s struggling economy. “If greenhouse gas emissions are to be addressed, then they should be addressed at the federal and international level,” said First District Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt, who serves on the air board. “As representatives of local government who will have...

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State releases first draft ‘cap and trade’ plan to cut greenhouse gases

November 25, 2009
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< ![CDATA[ The California Air Resources Board on Tuesday released a preliminary version of its first-in-the-nation “cap and trade” plan to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. Tens of billions of dollars will be at stake as the board fills in the details of the program over the next year. The plan is scheduled to take effect in 2012. Air board staff members are counting on it to deliver at least a fifth of the emissions cuts required by 2020 under Assembly Bill 32, the state’s climate change law. In later years,...

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Global Whining: A clear picture of Deceit

November 23, 2009
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Global Whining: A clear picture of Deceit

Here we go. Just like many of us have been saying the Science does not back the Hype. It turns out even the pro global warming scientist know that man-made climate change is not only questionable but pure and simple Junk Science. Hacked Emails Show Climate Science Ridden with Rancor – WSJ.com By KEITH JOHNSON The picture that emerges of prominent climate-change scientists from the more than 3,000 documents and emails accessed by hackers and put on the Internet this week is one of professional backbiting and questionable scientific...

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State Fund shops for 600 new cars

November 23, 2009
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< ![CDATA[ The State Compensation Insurance Fund, the workers’ compensation insurer, is shopping for 600 new hybrid vehicles for its automobile fleet – an expense that could top $14 million. The fund is contemplating the major purchase at the same time it’s hitting its own customers with a 5 percent increase in premiums in January, blaming that recently announced boost on “medical inflation.” The State Fund is negotiating with both Toyota and Ford to buy 600 gasoline-electric hybrid cars in 2010 to replace traditional gasoline-only cars in its fleet,...

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