Global Warming and Energy

Prominent fraud James Hansen admits no global warming lately.

EPA stonewalling on former chief's Richard Windsor email alias. Senator claims EPA violating the FOIA standards with release of emails from former chief's email alias.

Black carbon - soot - plays a much bigger role in global warming that previously thought. Because it's black, you would expect that. But the frauds don't care that. They want to harm capitalism, not reduce pollution, that's why they target CO2, not soot.

Environmental benefits of fracking do not include reduced CO2 emissions, though it does reduce CO2 emissions.

"In addition, a study comparing the costs and benefits of coal with those of conventional and shale gas in the February 2013 issue of Energy Policy finds that burning natural gas produces far less in the way of air pollutants like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, soot, and mercury. The authors conclude that a shift from coal to gas would “reduce the overall likelihood of health problems affecting the nervous system, inner organs, and the brain.”"

Sounds good to me, especially in light of the soot revelation.

Met Office busted for manipulating data.

"How did the Met Office get their data so wrong? Well there’s the rub. You see, the methodology used to develop the Met Office SSU product was never published in the peer-reviewed literature, and certain aspects of the original processing “remain unknown.” Evidently the boffins at the Met didn’t bother to write down exactly how they were massaging the raw data to get the results they reported. Indeed, those who did the data manipulation seem to have mostly retired. This is an egregious example of sloppy science, slipshod science, bad science. How other climate scientists blindly accepted the Met Office’s manufactured data, even when their models could not be reconciled with nature, leads one to question the scientific integrity of many of those in the field. This is not acceptable behavior in any realm of scientific endeavor. — Doug Hoffman, The Resilient Earth, 15 January 2013"

You don't say. I like this quote:

"The steady, relentless collapse of the climate campaign proceeds apace, notwithstanding the sugar high climate campaigners enjoyed after Hurricane Sandy and Obama’s re-election. And if the climate campaign wasn’t already in denial about being abandoned by The One, their media allies, and new carbon riches baron Al Gorezeera, a new report coming out this week from Harvard’s Theta Skocpol should really harsh their mellow.  Skocpol, a prominent liberal political scientist, argues that environmentalists deserve most of the blame for the defeat of their agenda. — Steven Hayward, Power Line, 14 January 2013"

Nice.

Gallop poll of issues of concern for Americans doesn't even mention global warming.