California, of course.
Free Mark Steyn!
Well, the fact that I even have to explain this shows what a cowardly, snivelling, career-safe, intellectually feeble, morally compromised age we inhabit. By rights, Mann v Steyn should be the 21st-century equivalent of the Scopes monkey trial, with believers in free speech, proponents of the scientific method and sympathetic millionaires and billionaires all piling in to Steyn’s defence with op eds, learned papers, and lavish funds to buy the hottest of hotshot lawyers.
Instead, what do I read?
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
The EPA has recently banned the production and sale of 80 percent of America’s current wood-burning stoves, the oldest heating method known to mankind and mainstay of rural homes and many of our nation’s poorest residents. The agency’s stringent one-size-fits-all rules apply equally to heavily air-polluted cities and far cleaner plus typically colder off-grid wilderness areas such as large regions of Alaska and the American West.
Don’t ever give up your guns.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer: Suddenly, as if crossing a line of demarcation — I am reminded of Checkpoint Charlie, the gate that linked West and East Berlin — we leave healthy fields bursting with life, and we arrive at . . . well, we arrive at nothing: just dust, quiet, and a few pieces of unused farming equipment. It’s quite the shift: a real-life Before and After comparison.
Enviro-whackos
Weibo Ludwig’s legacy.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
Joke’s on you, off-the-gridders;
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new standards for wood stoves that would reduce the maximum amount of fine particulate emissions allowed for new stoves sold in 2015 and 2019. Maximum emissions would be reduced by one-third next year and by 80 percent in five years…
Related: The Cleantech crash
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
About 145 employees of the Doe Run lead smelter [in Herculaneum, Missouri] learned they will lose their jobs at the end of December because of the plant’s closure, the Doe Run Co. said Wednesday. An additional 73 contractor jobs also will be eliminated.
The job cuts were expected. The plant, which has operated for more than a century and is the lone remaining lead smelter in the United States, announced in 2010 that it will cease operations at the end of this year.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the company “made a business decision” to shut down the smelter instead of installing pollution control technologies needed to reduce sulfur dioxide and lead emissions as required by the Clean Air Act.
And more:
Without ammunition, a gun is just a club.
Update: more in the comments.
Teachable moments
So, if last years drought in the corn belt was ‘a teachable moment’ on the effects of global warming, then what is this years bumper crop?
Oh, I know, ‘weather’.
The Future Belongs To Russia
Russian authorities have opened a piracy case against Greenpeace environmental activists who attempted to scale an OAO Gazprom OGZPY -1.70% oil platform in the Barents Sea last week to protest Arctic drilling.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, the federal law-enforcement body conducting the probe, vowed Tuesday to bring to justice all those involved in the incident “regardless of their citizenship.” Under Russian law, piracy carries a penalty of up to 15 years in prison.
YNoKyoto
Delingpole: Australia shows us all the way by sacking its useless, pointless Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery
So what, exactly, were his qualifications for taking on this supremely well-paid gig?
We-e-ll, Flannery is that most dangerous of things – an English literature graduate. Yes, I know I’m an English literature graduate too, but I’m the exception to the rule: on the whole, it would not be unfair to say, English literature graduates have done more to promote the cause of climate alarmism than any other category with the possible exception of “University” of East Anglia environmental “science” graduates.
“Could we switch to the grownup channel, please?”
Judith Curry reviews Donna Laframboise’ new book on the IPCC. Into the Dustbin: Rachendra Pachauri, the Climate Report & the Nobel Peace Prize.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
They’re your kids, there’s no risk to us.
A Highland Council spokesman said: “We are satisfied we have put in place the required risk assessments of wind turbines in schools to ensure their safe operation.”
“Panel calls for protecting world’s largest forest”
“before oil, gas, mining and lumber companies develop areas and extract natural resources…”
Er, no.
h/t John C
Restoring Science To Its Rightful Place
As executioner of the less fashionably patterned;
How much money does it take to eliminate 3,603 barred owls from select Pacific Northwest zones to make more room for the endangered spotted owl? Well, if you’re the federal government, $3 million over the next four years.
According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, using a permit allowing the killing of non-game birds, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to conduct an experiment over three states to see if by decreasing the number of barred owls (a bird that migrated to the Northwest from the East Coast) will make room for spotted owls (a bird at the center of a heated debate between loggers and environmentalists) to flourish.
If only they’d migrated from Mexico.
h/t Meatriarchy
Save The Planet. Deport An Ethiopian.
Contrary to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s charge, David Suzuki wasn’t being anti-immigrant when he said Canada is “full” and that our “crazy” policy of letting more people in is “disgusting.”
He was being anti-Western.
What Suzuki meant was that it’s wrong, in his view, to move people from the Third World, where they have a small carbon footprint, to the First World, where they develop a massive carbon footprint as they progress economically.
Hey, I’ve been saying this for a long time.
The Tolerant Left
Eco-terrorists are becoming bolder: Protesters who attacked the test drilling site for a potential Northern Wisconsin mine have posted video of their assault on line. In the video, masked attackers are seen physically assaulting a female Gogebic Taconite employee and stealing private property.
If You Have Nothing To Freeze, You Have Nothing To Worry About
In a seemingly innocuous revision of its Energy Star efficiency requirements announced June 27, the Environmental Protection Agency included an “optional” requirement for a “smart-grid” connection for customers to electronically connect their refrigerators or freezers with a utility provider.
The feature lets the utility provider regulate the appliances’ power consumption, “including curtailing operations during more expensive peak-demand times.”
Y2Kyoto: Green Police
A Mongolian neo-Nazi group has rebranded itself as an environmentalist organisation fighting pollution by foreign-owned mines, seeking legitimacy as it sends swastika-wearing members to check mining permits.
[…]
Based in an office behind a lingerie store in the Mongolian capital, the shaven-headed, jackbooted Tsagaan Khass stormtroopers launch raids on mining projects, demanding paperwork or soil samples to be studied for contaminants.
“Before, we used to work in a harsh way, like breaking down doors,” the group’s leader, Ariunbold Altankhuum, 40, told Reuters. “But now, we have changed and we use other approaches, like demonstrations.”On a patrol to a quarry two hours’ drive from the capital, members wore black, SS-style Nazi uniforms complete with lightning flashes and replica Iron Crosses.
And here I thought it was hot air?
Speaking of ‘shoddy historical statistics’….
Former Vice President Al Gore lamented on Tuesday that scientists “won’t let us yet” link tornadoes to climate change.
Gore alluded to last month’s devastating twister in Moore, Okla., saying that shoddy historical statistics are preventing a connection between “these record-breaking tornadoes and the climate crisis.”
Restoring Science To Its Rightful Place
How much C02 is released in a book burning?
h/t Black Mamba