Climate change activists have reacted hysterically to news that a think tank run by “sceptical environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg is to be given state funding by Australia. (h/t Bishop Hill) Earlier this month the Australian government announced the awarding of a
In an interview with National Geographic, President Obama stressed the importance of California’s conservation efforts amid a fourth year of drought, laid out his expectations for this year’s climate conference in Paris, and reiterated America’s commitment to a “low-carbon future.”
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld argued that Earth Day is about “ego and retribution” on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Five.” Gutfeld began, “so, at an Earth Day thing at the National Mall, activists made an unearthly mess. I guess
On Earth Day, it’s remarkable how much Green energy (of the political variety) has been pumped into the climate change movement. It gives people an easy way to assume intellectual superiority with virtually zero effort. It’s the eternal crusade, the insoluble problem, the hypothesis that can never be falsified, so it provides sustainable fuel for countless rallies and political power grabs.
Columnist and author of “The Undocumented,” Mark Steyn proposed that a Republican presidential candidate suggest we “mothball Air Force One” for Earth Day on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Joyce Kaufman Show” on WFTL. “I would love it on Earth Day if
For almost two years now, Breitbart News has documented CNN’s turn to the hard-left under the leadership of Jeff Zucker. The turn became obvious in 2013 when Breitbart News reported that Zucker had issued a memo reassuring all of the
Climate science is suffering a dearth of recent graduates joining the field, as young physicists are instead turning to cosmology or astrophysics. Practicing climate researchers have suggested that younger people are being turned off as they think the science is already
President Obama is earning criticism for Earth Day plans that include taking Air Force One to the Everglades in Florida to serve as a backdrop for his latest speech about his fears of global warming.
President Obama urged action on climate change, saying “it’s about protecting our God-given natural wonders, and the good jobs that rely on them” during Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Hi everybody. Wednesday is Earth Day, a day to appreciate and
The witch-hunting obsessions of the climate cult took them into the realm of total absurdity with March’s “Open Letter to Museums From Members of the Scientific Community,” which called upon museum administrators to begin refusing donations from the evil fossil-fuel industry.
Late last year, the name Jonathan Gruber became part of the public consciousness for his newly public declarations that Obamacare passed due to the “stupidity of the American voter.” While there are many cases one can cite affirming that most Americans don’t closely follow the political process, the campaign to sell the manmade climate change crisis narrative proves otherwise.
Labour has put tackling climate change at the centre of its election manifesto, promising one million new green jobs, setting targets for Britain to have carbon free energy by 2030 and pushing for global net zero carbon emissions by the latter half
British school-children are taught to believe that global warming will be an unmitigated disaster: soaring temperatures will turn out green and pleasant land into an arid desert before it sinks beneath the waves of a rising sea. But for the
Coal investment tycoon and global warming pusher Tom Steyer uses his billions as a weapon to shape government leftward, and this week he is again using his billions to criticize the libertarian-minded Koch brothers for using their own money to shape government rightward. For a second time now, Styer is calling for the Kochs to join him in a “debate” on climate change.
Wisconsin state officials have banned employees who work for an agency that oversees a Wisconsin public land trust from discussing climate change. Enacted this week by a vote of Wisconsin’s Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, it includes prohibitions on
President Obama has made a not-so-subtle attempt to personalise his administration’s war on “climate change” by linking it with his daughter Malia’s asthma. Nice try, Mr President. But the evidence just doesn’t stack up. While it’s true that the CDC
A federal panel has decreed that a diet heavy on vegetables is the best diet for the planet in this age of global warming.
President Obama blames climate change for causing his daughter’s asthma attack when she was a toddler, an incident that caused the family to rush to the emergency room.
Potential 2016 presidential candidate and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina recently penned an op-ed in Time in which she chastises liberal environmentalists for making a species of fish a priority over human beings, resulting in billions of gallons of precious fresh water released to the Pacific Ocean–water that could have been used to help California during it’s fourth year of a devastating drought.
This month marks 18 years and four months since the world last experienced any warming. It also marks eight years and 11 months since author Mark Lynas floated the idea of international criminal tribunals for climate change ‘deniers’, saying: “I put [their climate change denial]
President Obama said it’s a good thing that the number of “climate deniers” is decreasing in an interview broadcast on Wednesday’s “Today” on NBC. “What’s exciting is that you’re seeing doctors, nurses, medical schools really trying to raise awareness…the good
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank has written a shouty piece claiming that “climate-change deniers are in retreat.”
Billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer says Rand Paul is dangerous to America, because he is a climate change denier.
One of my favourite National Trust properties is Overbeck’s in Salcombe – the former seaside home of an eccentric inventor with a wondrous subtropical garden. The last time I visited, the nice lady at the entrance asked – as they
The California Teachers’ Retirement Trust (CalSTRS) board directed its staff and consultants last week to evaluate the risks of investing in thermal coal companies.
