Nutty Professors Question the Settled Science of Global Warming Climate Change

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  July 18th at 10:28 AM  | 

H/T Cooler Heads Digest, Competitive Enterprise Institute An article in the USA Today Science Fair blog highlights a study published online in Nature Geoscience. Researchers from Rice University, UC-Santa Cruz and the University of Hawaii at Manoa dare to challenge the State Religion scientific dogma (now there’s an oxymoron for you) that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere alone is sufficient to predict | Read More »

NOAA Hedges Bets on 2009 Hurricane Prediction

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  July 14th at 01:18 PM  | 

You may recall that earlier this year, NOAA made the bold prediction that 2009′s Hurricane Season would probably near normal in terms of tropical storm activity, but if it weren’t, it would either be a lot more active or a lot less active than normal. We pay these guys for that?! Now the National Weather Service of NOAA is hedging its bets. In a July | Read More »

Stunning Breakthrough in Bovine Emissions Technology to Save Planet From Fiery Hell

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  June 5th at 01:14 PM  | 

And before you correct me on a persistent point of ruminant digestion, cows do fart. I have it on the authority of The New York Times. So there. Greening the Herds: A New Diet to Cap Gas Photo credit: Cheryl Senter for The New York Times, possibly enhanced by Vladimir HIGHGATE, Vt. — Chewing her cud on a recent sunny morning, Libby, a 1,400-pound Holstein, | Read More »

Breaking: All Things Considered, 2009 Hurricane Season Will Most Likely Be Near Typical, On Average

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  May 26th at 03:19 PM  | 

Weather forecasters at the National Hurricane Center have really stuck their necks out this time, predicting an average hurricane season in 2009. On average. WASHINGTON D.C.: Forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are predicting that a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season is most likely for 2009. The NOAA’s initial outlook for the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season calls for a 50 percent probability of | Read More »

Cap-and-Trade? Pass It Quick, Before the Idiots Figure Out What It Is!

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  May 13th at 07:08 PM  | 

Remember Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, with the “ask the audience” lifeline? Better yet, have you read The Wisdom of Crowds? A new Rasmussen poll will make you rethink all that wisdom-of-crowds business. Given a choice of three options, just 24% of voters can correctly identify the cap-and-trade proposal as something that deals with environmental issues. A slightly higher number (29%) believe the proposal | Read More »