California’s plans to build a high-speed rail system present the state with “immense financial risk,” concludes an explosive new report from an independent review panel. The panel advises state officials against borrowing billions of dollars to construct the first section of the track this year.
Ignoring Conclusions
The California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group was created by the legislature to analyze the feasibility of the state’s proposed high-speed rail system. The system is estimated to cost approximately $100 billion to build but, according to the report, is not likely to recoup the cost of construction.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority, however, is thumbing its nose at the independent report.
“[W]e have every intention of moving forward and putting shovels in the ground to start the project later this year,” Lance Simmons, deputy director for communications at the California High-Speed Rail Authority, told the press after release of the independent report...
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to track lower than year 2000 levels, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported on Monday, extending this century’s downward trend in U.S. emissions. The new data rebut assertions that the United States needs to impose new restrictions on coal-fired power plants and other sources of carbon dioxide emissions.
Interestingly, EIA reports U.S. emissions rose more than 15% during the eight years of the Clinton-Gore administration but have...
The UK Times has published an article (republished in the Australian) explaining how scientists are hopeful of retrieving vast amounts of natural gas frozen in global seabeds. The article, titled “Seabed gas find blows all other energy sources out of the water,” claims such seabed-trapped natural gas potentially contains “more energy than all the world’s known coal, oil and gas reserves combined.” Japanese and Norwegian scientists are particularly enthusiastic about the seabed natural gas...
The Washington Post Fact Checker gave Rick Perry four Pinocchios for his August 17 denunciation of alarmist global warming science. Here’s what we think.
Below is the WashPost Fact Checker’s article—our comments are in bold brackets.
Few scientists would back up Rick Perry’s global warming claimsBy Glenn Kessler, Published: December 11
“I do believe that the issue of global warming has been politicized. I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they...
California’s plans to build a high-speed rail system present the state with “immense financial risk,” concludes an explosive new report from an independent review panel.
The Obama administration has decided to block construction of the Keystone XL pipeline that would deliver close to 1 million barrels of oil per day from neighboring Canada to U.S. refineries.
Global warming activist Peter Gleick is taking a beating for authoring a column in Forbes.com that singled out scientists who disagree with his global warming alarmism and attacked them (and others
The Washington Post Fact Checker gave Rick Perry four Pinocchios for his August 17 denunciation of alarmist global warming science. Here’s what we think.
Review of Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, by Robert Zubrin (Encounter Books, 2012), 312 pages, ISBN- 978-15
High-level negotiators are attempting to reach an agreement on competing Marcellus Shale oversight bills that have passed through the Pennsylvania House and Senate.
A prison inmate serving a life sentence for murder has sued prison officials in New Jersey, alleging they failed to give him soft food after a cyst was removed from the roof of his mouth.
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