October 13, 2009   by Jon Sanders An Associated Press story last week related “good news” about expected heating costs this winter: namely, it will cost people less to heat their homes this year, according to the Energy Information Administration. To read the story, one would think that the government considers that to be good [...]

In the Rust Belt, America’s Manufacturing Mainland, Legislation to Cap Emissions is Viewed with Apprehension Oct 12, 2009 (AP)  Nestled in Ohio’s Amish country, Bill Belden’s 124-year-old family owned brick company has thrived on the region’s rich red clay and shale, and cheap energy from abundant coal. Which he’s convinced that a climate bill being [...]

Oct 9, 2009 By Paul Hudson Climate correspondent, BBC News This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase [...]

Oct 9, 2009 By Thomas Lifson America is being asked to spend trillions on a theory, some of whose foundational data has been destroyed, allegedly for a lack of storage space. If the data cannot be reviewed, it cannot be trusted, scientifically. Via Christine Hall and the Competitive Enterprise Institute: In the wake of a [...]

By JOHN M. BRODER   Published: October 8, 2009 WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior has frozen oil and gas development on 60 of 77 contested drilling sites in Utah, saying the process of leasing the land was rushed and badly flawed. The 77 government-owned parcels, covering some 100,000 acres in eastern and southern [...]

Sept 30, 2009 Climate Change: The Senate has finally rolled out its long-awaited cap-and-trade bill to slash carbon dioxide. Looking at its draconian restrictions on the U.S. economy, it’s hard to believe its supporters are serious. The Boxer-Kerry bill isn’t a whole lot different from the Waxman-Markey bill that was passed by the House of [...]

Sept 30, 2009 Note: As you view this article, note the video which sinks a power plant into the ground and replaces it with a field of windmills.  Time and time again science has shown that we cannot generate enough energy by using any of the proposed green technologies to replace the current tech in [...]

Sept 29, 2009 Climate: As alternate-energy champ Spain’s green economy slides into recession, a German professor says if American “climate illiterates” don’t follow, the Copenhagen climate conference will fail. And the bad news is? King Canute, the Viking king of England, Norway and Denmark, was the legendary king whose sycophantic followers praised his power and [...]

By Todd Zeranski and Erik Schatzker Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Northeast may have the coldest winter in a decade because of a weak El Nino, a warming current in the Pacific Ocean, according to Matt Rogers, a forecaster at Commodity Weather Group. “Weak El Ninos are notorious for cold and snowy weather on [...]

It’s one thing for President Obama to surround himself with the advisers he’d like to have, but it’s another to bestow on them sweeping powers to broker secret negotiations and push forward vast new regulations that could cost American families thousands of dollars. Sept 23, 2009 By Phil Kerpen Cap-and-trade energy tax legislation appears stalled, [...]