This weekly newsletter, focused on environmental issues, highlights relevant analysis done by the JLF and other think tanks as well as items in the news.
This week, I ‘d like to highlight two audio interviews that are quite good and that are well worth listening to.
1. ATI ‘s Director of Litigation discusses FOIA lawsuit with Wilmington talk show host, Chad Adams.
Last week, Chad Adams, host of the morning show at Wilmington ‘s Big Talker 106.3, interviewed Christopher Horner of the American Traditions Institute regarding ATI’s lawsuit against the University of Virginia. The suit is over documents and emails relevant to the "climategate " scandal and the possible misuse of taxpayer funding by one time UVA professor Michael Mann. Mann ‘s research while at UVA resulted in the now discredited "hockey stick " graph that has been at the heart of the controversy; many arguing that it was fraudulently constructed. Adam ‘s interview is particularly insightful. Unlike many talk show hosts, Adams actually understands both the basic science and the politics of the global warming issue. To listen to the entire interview click here: (http://thebigtalkerfm.com/podcasts/?p=episode&name=2011 –05 –20_chrishorner51911.mp3).
JUST IN–After four months of resistance, judge orders Mann to turn over documents (http://www.atinstitute.org/court –orders –university –of –virginia –to/)
2. Climate Depot ‘s Marc Morano discusses Gingrich ‘s political gamesmanship on global warming
Newt Gingrich has a global warming problem. A couple of years ago, he embraced global warming alarmism to the extent that he filmed an ad with Nancy Pelosi in which the two of them joined hands and rang the alarm bell together. What is particularly unfortunate is that, unlike Tim Pawlenty, his opponent in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, Gingrich refuses to renounce his alarmist dalliance with Pelosi despite his present claim that he is a global warming skeptic. Marc Morano, founder and editor of the global warming news site Climate Depot (http://www.climatedepot.com/), has been responsible for shining a strong light on Gingrich ‘s contradictions. His interview with the Heartland Institute ‘s James Taylor can be heard here: (http://www.heartland.org/bin/media/podcasts/environment/ECN051311.mp3).
3. Ozone Report
Each week during the summer ozone season, this newsletter will report how many, if any, high ozone days have been experienced throughout the state during the previous week, where they were experienced, and how many have been recorded during the entire season to date. The ozone season began on April 1 and ends October 31st. All reported data is from the North Carolina Division of Air Quality, which is part of the state’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources. During the period from May 16 through May 22, there were no reported high ozone readings on any of the state’s monitors. Interestingly, code orange alerts have been issued and reported in the media across the state on several different occasions, never mind the fact that there have been no reported high ozone readings in North Carolina so far this season. In other words, all alerts thus far have turned out to be false alarms. Unfortunately, such false alarms are never reported to the public after the fact.
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