California doubles down on stupid – Court upholds cap and trade program, new fuel tax coming

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From the LA Times and the “let’s double down on stupid” department A cornerstone of California’s battle against climate change was upheld on Thursday by a state appeals court that ruled the cap-and-trade program does not constitute an unconstitutional tax, as some business groups had claimed. The 2-1 decision from the 3rd District Court of […]

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April 7, 2017 at 01:59AM

Climate Change Fan Fiction From LA Times: Global Warming Caused The Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill

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Environmentalists have pinned every one of Earth’s calamities on the presence of climate change, from terrorism to prostitution to drug addiction. Running out of chilling subject matter, activists are now retroactively blaming famous disasters on global warming in a crusade to punish “dissenters.” A few years back, the Energy and Environment Reporting Project at Columbia […]

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April 7, 2017 at 01:01AM

Capitol Hill Climate Science Dispute Yields Advantage to Skeptics

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Earlier this week, American Meteorological Society (AMS) executive director Keith Seitter implicitly accused House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) of retailing unscientific climate denialism. At the Committee’s hearing last week on climate science and the scientific method, University of Alabama in Huntsville atmospheric scientist John Christy provided observational evidence inconsistent with the alleged “consensus” […]

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April 7, 2017 at 01:01AM

Sierra Club President Tries To Troll Trump, Ends Up Trolling Obama

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The president of the Sierra Club thought he’d send out a tweet about how good the Trump administration was at lying, but he instead ended up making fun of the Obama administration. Aaron Mair tweeted that the Trump administration’s “diplomatic lying” was “full on Baghdad Bob” — a former Iraqi military leader and politician who’d […]

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April 7, 2017 at 01:01AM