Environmentalist Duncan Stewart broke down live on air this morning, refusing to discuss the topic of climate change unless he was given 10 minutes of unopposed airtime to speak about the issue. Stewart, who himself used to be a presenter
President Obama visited the drought-stricken Central Valley of California in February to announce his solution: another billion dollars to study “climate change.” Here’s a bulletin for those who missed the Holocene Epoch: the planet has been warming–on and off–since the
Lying about climate change to advance the environmental agenda is a good idea, say two economists in a peer-reviewed paper published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. The authors, Assistant Professors of Economics Fuhai Hong and Xiaojian Zhao, take it as
The latest verdict is in on ‘climate change’ – and the news is good. The planet is greening, the oceans are blooming, food production is up, animals are thriving and humans are doing better than ever: and all thanks to
The BBC should give less airtime to sceptics of man-made global warming, and any government minister who questions climate change orthodoxy should “shut up or leave”, according to a committee of MPs. A report by the Commons Science and Technology
You’ve been reading all week in the MSM about the doomsday predictions in the latest IPCC report. You’ve quaked at headlines like: “Climate change harms food crops, says IPCC” (Financial Times) “Climate signals growing louder” (New York Times) “Climate change
Tensions on the Korean peninsula are as heightened as they have been since the end of the Korean War in 1953. Yesterday, North Korea responded to a long planned South Korean amphibious naval exercise by firing a thousand missiles and
More details are emerging about what was presented at the “White Privilege Conference” held in Madison, Wisconsin, where tax money was spent to train teachers how to annihilate “white privilege” and “white supremacy” in American schools. One session insisted that whites can never
Green ideologues working for the British government helped “sex up” the latest Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) report in order to make its conclusions sound more scary than the evidence warrants, it emerged today. The draft version of the
Today sees the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest findings on the state of “global warming” and the news isn’t good. Here are some of the highlights: Giant malarial mosquitoes the size of crane flies may
A taxpayer-supported conference that trains teachers of public schools and universities how to “dismantle” the “white privilege” and “white supremacy” in American schools being held in Wisconsin refused to allow a reporter to attend its sessions, claiming that the conference
Hollywood routinely treats environmental matters with doom and gloom proclamations, consider alarmist movies The Day After Tomorrow and An Inconvenient Truth. This weekend, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone of the Spider-Man franchise yukked it up while trumpeting the glory of
The European Union (EU) – obsessed with climate change, cutting carbon emissions and saving polar bears – may have been hoist by its own foreign policy petard. Vladimir Putin’s threat to cut off natural gas supplies which supply 30 percent
IN an age of ever expanding government spending, the House Republicans are proposing that government scientists shift their focus to predicting storms, not on climate change. The Weather Forecasting Improvement Act, H.R. 2413, could be voted upon as soon as Tuesday, based upon this report
In an insufferable bit of trolling, Gawker has decided to pick up on the nonsense being spouted by Lawrence Torcello, an assistant professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Torcello reasons, badly, that organized groups or efforts espousing a view
Ever wondered how it would feel to be dropped from a helicopter into a swirling mass of crazed, genetically modified oceanic whitetip sharks in the middle of a USS-Indianapolis-style feeding frenzy? Just ask Nate Silver. He’s been living the nightmare
Did Arnold Schwarzenegger’s RINO-esque turn as California Governor derail his movie star appeal for good? Schwarzenneger became one of the most improbable A-list stars in the 1980s. The muscle-bound actor routinely got bullied by his dialogue, and his dramatic chops
A respected professor of economics at Sussex University in England has severed ties with the upcoming United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, claiming that his colleagues are “alarmist” about the threat of climate change. According to Richard
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its latest figures on the annual death toll caused by pollution–and they look shocking. Of all the deaths across the globe in 2012, no fewer than seven million–1 in 8–are apparently the result
1. THR: ‘Slave’ Oscar-Winner Too ‘Dark-Skinned’ for ‘Industry Prejudices’ Hollywood is apparently very open about how it is almost impossible for a light-skinned black actress to achieve the same career heights as a Julia Roberts or Angelina Jolie, and outright
Wyoming has become the first state to officially reject the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), primarily due to the science standards’ presentation of man-made climate change as a fact, as well as their depiction of evolution as scientific fact. According
The economic costs of ‘global warming’ have been grossly overestimated, a leaked report – shortly to be published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – has admitted. Previous reports – notably the hugely influential 2006 Stern Review –
U.S. laws protecting polar bears are based on a deeply flawed study that even the authors now admit has problems. The decision to list the polar bear as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was based on a 2006
With the Biblical epic Noah slated to hit theaters this, the left is stoked about apocalyptic disaster springing from misuse of nature. The movie itself reportedly blames God’s wrath on a combination of overpopulation and environmental degradation; it’s a perverse
An author of the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate change has asked for his name to be removed from a summary document because of its “four horsemen of the apocalypse” rhetoric. Professor Richard Tol, an
