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Billionaire polluter David Koch: Global warming is good for you - But why does NY Magazine reprint his disinformation without question?

Global warming could be good for the planet, Koch says. "A far greater land area will be available to produce food."

This is the big pull-out quote from a profile in New York Magazine of the billionaire polluter behind the Tea Parties, whose family outspends Exxon Mobil on climate and clean energy disinformation.

NY Mag gives Koch free rein to spread that disinformation, with not a single quote by any scientist disputing it.  Of course, if conservatives continue to listen to Koch and the...

Energy and Global Warming News for July 28: Wind drives growing battery use; Chevy Volt vs. Nissan Leaf

Wind Drives Growing Use of Batteries

The rapid growth of wind farms, whose output is hard to schedule reliably or even predict, has the nation's electricity providers scrambling to develop energy storage to ensure stability and improve profits.

As the wind installations multiply, companies have found themselves dumping energy late at night, adjusting the blades so they do not catch the wind, because there is no demand for the power. And grid operators, accustomed to meeting demand by adjusting...

Curry Favor

Anyone interested in the much-replicated/exonerated Hockey Stick and the phony challenges to it by the anti-science blogosphere should read "Hockey Stick fight at the RC Corral."

Judith Curry has made an amazing series of comments, even after writing, "OK, I officially give up over here" (at #152).

Many of us have asked a favor of her — please define your terms, please respond to the detailed debunking of the Montford critiques you have repeated, and please defend the sweeping but...

Stavins and Schmalensee: "Demonizing cap-and-trade in the short term will turn out to be a mistake with serious long-term consequences for the economy, for business, and for consumers."

Harvard economist Robert Stavins has a good piece , "Beware of Scorched-Earth Strategies in Climate Debates."  In it, he reposts an op-ed co-authored with Dick Schmalensee, who served on President George H.W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, on the self-destructive nature of conservative demagogueing against the very market-based solutions conservatives developed years ago when they actually cared about clean air and clean water and the health and well-being of our children.

Robert...

Hayward remains proud but deluded: "I think BP's response to this tragedy has been a model of good social corporate responsibility" - And still a victim: I "was demonised and vilified.... life isn't fair ... sometimes you step off the pavement and get h

Yes, yachting multimillionaire and golden parachuting Tony Hayward, life really sucks for you.  Sometimes you get hit by a bus — or at least get a $17 million pension and another high-priced job after the worst CEO performance imaginable — and sometimes your recklessness, arrogance, and hubris causes the death of 11 people, devastates a major ecosystem, and ruins the livelihoods of thousands of people.

Hayward leaves his job as he started it — as perhaps the most self-centered, tone deaf...

Hayward remains proud but deluded: "I think BP's response to this tragedy has been a model of good social corporate responsibility" - And still a victim: I "was demonised and vilified.... life isn't fair ... sometimes you step off the pavement and get h

Yes, yachting multimillionaire and golden parachuting Tony Hayward, life really sucks for you.  Sometimes you get hit by a bus — or at least get a $17 million pension and another high-priced job after the worst CEO performance imaginable — and sometimes your recklessness, arrogance, and hubris causes the death of 11 people, devastates a major ecosystem, and ruins the livelihoods of thousands of people.

Hayward leaves his job as he started it — as perhaps the most self-centered, tone deaf...

Hayward remains proud but deluded: "I think BP's response to this tragedy has been a model of good social corporate responsibility" - And still a victim: I "was demonised and vilified.... life isn't fair ... sometimes you step off the pavement and get h

Yes, yachting multimillionaire and golden parachuting Tony Hayward, life really sucks for you.  Sometimes you get hit by a bus — or at least get a $17 million pension and another high-priced job after the worst CEO performance imaginable — and sometimes your recklessness, arrogance, and hubris causes the death of 11 people, devastates a major ecosystem, and ruins the livelihoods of thousands of people.

Hayward leaves his job as he started it — as perhaps the most self-centered, tone deaf...

Hayward remains proud but deluded: "I think BP's response to this tragedy has been a model of good social corporate responsibility" - And still a victim: I "was demonised and vilified.... life isn't fair ... sometimes you step off the pavement and get h

Yes, yachting multimillionaire and golden parachuting Tony Hayward, life really sucks for you.  Sometimes you get hit by a bus — or at least get a $17 million pension and another high-priced job after the worst CEO performance imaginable — and sometimes your recklessness, arrogance, and hubris causes the death of 11 people, devastates a major ecosystem, and ruins the livelihoods of thousands of people.

Hayward leaves his job as he started it — as perhaps the most self-centered, tone deaf...

Hayward remains proud but deluded: "I think BP's response to this tragedy has been a model of good social corporate responsibility" - And still a victim: I "was demonised and vilified.... life isn't fair ... sometimes you step off the pavement and get h

Yes, yachting multimillionaire and golden parachuting Tony Hayward, life really sucks for you.  Sometimes you get hit by a bus — or at least get a $17 million pension and another high-priced job after the worst CEO performance imaginable — and sometimes your recklessness, arrogance, and hubris causes the death of 11 people, devastates a major ecosystem, and ruins the livelihoods of thousands of people.

Hayward leaves his job as he started it — as perhaps the most self-centered, tone deaf...

Hayward remains proud but deluded: "I think BP's response to this tragedy has been a model of good social corporate responsibility" - And still a victim: I "was demonised and vilified.... life isn't fair ... sometimes you step off the pavement and get h

Yes, yachting multimillionaire and golden parachuting Tony Hayward, life really sucks for you.  Sometimes you get hit by a bus — or at least get a $17 million pension and another high-priced job after the worst CEO performance imaginable — and sometimes your recklessness, arrogance, and hubris causes the death of 11 people, devastates a major ecosystem, and ruins the livelihoods of thousands of people.

Hayward leaves his job as he started it — as perhaps the most self-centered, tone deaf...