California environmentalists were giddy after the market for pollution credits traded up in price to a new high on record volume. But rather than a sign of greater enthusiasm to fight CO2, the California legislature quietly passed in 2012 a
After constant claims that the earth had but “ten years left” before global warming would destroy us all, temperatures suddenly stopped rising in the 1990s. Now, scientists say that the “pause” in rising temperatures might last another ten years. The
“Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great Climate War?” “Well, son. I voyaged up to the Arctic Circle in a nice big boat with a bunch of installation artists, mime practitioners, YouTube cat short specialists and climate scientists on
Mark Steyn has published his latest brief in his protracted court case with discredited climate scientist Michael Mann (who is suing him for libel) and it’s a corker. Here’s a sample: The audacity of the falsehoods in Mann’s court pleadings
Wanna pay 8-9 bucks a gallon for gas? Think it couldn’t happen here? It’s already happening. The “Hidden Gas Tax”, buried deep within California’s”Cap-and-Trade” program, was tucked away in the fine print of AB 32–a 2006 bill that radically increased
Tom Steyer, the fossil-fuel powered hedge funder has suffered further setbacks on his $100 million mission to save the world from ‘global warming’ by destroying the US economy. He is hoping to raise $50 million from left-wing environmentalist billionaire donors
The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Gina McCarthy has said in an interview that she believes “climate science” ought to be included in the school curriculum. “Very much so,” she says. “I think part of the challenge
In what might be considered a major gaffe, the European Union’s (EU) chief scientific adviser Anne Glover has just insisted her work should be “not transparent” and should be kept out of the public eye. Her advice to the Commission chief
Imagine if Republicans had responded to the push for Obamacare in 2009 by embracing the need for “comprehensive health care reform” while acceding to all Democrat premises concerning the foundations of health care policy. Ponder for a moment where we
Sony Pictures Classics will bring a new documentary to theaters in the coming months that attacks those who scrutinize the latest global warming headlines. Will film critics label the finished product “one-sided” or “propaganda” as they so often do with
The Telegraph’s resident enviro loon Geoffrey Lean has come up with some new terrifying evidence for the existence of “global warming.” No. Not surface air temperatures. They became totally irrelevant to the global warming debate when they stopped doing what
In a wildly speculative Tuesday editorial, the Washington Post worried that global warming “could” make the spread of the Ebola virus worse as time goes on. In its August 5 Capitol Weather Gang blog post, the Post helpfully reported that Ebola is
Some of the world’s biggest PR firms have publicly ruled out working with climate change sceptics. The Guardian reports that a number of the top 25 global PR firms responded to a survey saying that they would never represent clients
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “NewsNation,” Tamron Hall interviewed “Sharknado” creator Thunder Levin who suggested global warming could “absolutely” cause flying giant monster sharks to rain down on American cities. Partial transcript as follows: HALL: Take me through this process of, I
While discussing climate change in Mexico on Monday, Jerry Brown predicted droughts, wildfires, political upheaval and mass migration of people fleeing from environments devastated by global warming. “Can we imagine the future… and do something about it in the present?”
Environmental studies professor Roger Pielke, Jr. has quit Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog over a controversy that arose after he wrote a post denying that global warming is responsible for the increasing costs of recovery from natural disasters. Pielke, a professor
Talking Points Memo relates the short and unhappy career of Roger Pielke Jr. at Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog, as inquisitors of the Church of Global Warming turned up with a wooden stake and plenty of kindling to burn the heretic
Two MPs on the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee have refused to sign off the body’s latest report as they claim it is “cheerleading” for those who believe in man-made global warming. Graham Stringer and Peter Lilley, who are
The impact of carbon dioxide on climate change may have been overstated, with solar activity giving a better explanation of changes in the Earth’s temperature, according to Chinese scientists. A new paper published in the Chinese Science Bulletin has found
At a fundraiser in Washington state, President Obama promised supporters that he would work to make sure the planet Earth continues to function. During his speech, Obama cited global warming for causing the dry conditions that were the cause for
Someone has petitioned the UK Government’s Home Office demanding that the term “denier” be classified as “hate speech.” We the undersigned request that the offensive terms, “climate denier”, “denier”, “denialist” and other variants being used to harass sceptical scientists or
A new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California found that 54 percent of Californians say the water supply is a big problem where they live, and 75 percent support regulations on water usage. When asked an open-ended question
America’s National Hockey League has become the latest organisation to claim that global warming threatens its future. Despite the fact that most of its rinks are indoors, it is maintaining that rising temperatures may melt frozen lakes, thus making it
WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) —A new poll offers details on the way citizens of the world think about climate change, and U.S. participants are looking particularly ignorant to the risks of global warming. Only one in four Americans said climate
The climate alarmists have found a new fluffy white creature with which to browbeat us about global warming. Enter the white lemuroid ringtail possum – a species allegedly in imminent danger of being wiped out by man-made climate change. Only
