On HBO’s Sunday broadcast of “Last Week Tonight,” host John Oliver took on President Barack Obama’s latest pivot to the so-called climate change issue. Oliver, who aligned himself with the global warming alarmist side of the debate, showed he was
The White House has 132 rooms, 32 bathrooms, 6 levels, 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 7 staircases, and 3 elevators. What’s more, there is now an arrangement of solar panels resting on its roof that is generating almost 44 kilowatt
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a UK-based, environmental policy focused organisation, is expanding into campaigning in order to tackle the orthodoxy emanating from the likes of WWF and Greenpeace on environmental issues. The GWPF describes itself as “an all-party and
A lot of people freaked out over my “Blazing Saddles” review because I dared to point to the cold naked fact that someday the Left will ban the film. If past is prologue, that is a perfectly safe assumption. If
The fact that more pollsters are providing surveys about the Common Core standards gives further validity to recent major news outlets’ claims that the controversial academic standards are a major political and electoral issue. A look behind a new poll,
One of the world’s most eminent climate scientists – for several decades a warmist – has defected to the climate sceptic camp. Lennart Bengtsson – a Swedish climatologist, meteorologist, former director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg
President Barack Obama’s Tuesday launch of a renewed focus on global warming left Democrats mystified and Republicans jubilant, as the much-discussed Pew Research/USA Today poll does not even list environmental issues as among voters’ top concerns. The Obama White House’s
CNN has just produced a list of “Five Things You Can Do About Climate Change”. They are: Become Informed; Make Changes At Home; Be Greener At The Office; Reduce Emissions In Transit; Get Involved And Educate Others About The Big
WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous, according to a new federal scientific report. And those shining seas? Rising and costly, the report says. Climate change’s assorted harms “are
Today the Obama administration publishes its latest National Climate Assessment on the state of global warming. The bad news – inevitably – is that the news is very bad: more heat, more extreme weather, more drought, everything worse than ever
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is more certain than ever that global warming is changing Americans’ daily lives and will worsen — conclusions that scientists will detail in a massive federal report to be released Tuesday. Once people thought
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson has said that global warming, if it is happening, will likely bring benefits to the developing world, and branded green policies as “grossly immoral”. In an article for Standpoint magazine’s May issue, Lord
The Smithsonian Institution – established in 1846 “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge” – has weighed into the debate on climate change. And the news is grim. Soon golfers in hotter parts of the world – such as Arizona
If the Church of Global Warming still had any real credibility, the bombshell revelations by Harvard professor Robert Stavins in an open letter published Friday would be devastating. As it is, the fanatics will probably scream that Stavins has become
A former NASA scientist has described global warming as “nonsense”, dismissing the theory of man-made climate change as “an unsubstantiated hypothesis” and saying that it is “absolutely stupid” to blame the recent UK floods on human activity. Professor Les Woodcock,
The British government plans to build up to 3,000 new wind turbines over the next five years, despite Conservative plans for a moratorium. Energy Secretary Ed Davey, a Liberal Democrat, has said that his department plans to increase the total
In The Nation magazine MSNBC host Christopher Hayes spent thousands of words and four web pages explaining how those working at preventing global warming are somehow just like the abolitionists who fought to free the slaves just prior to the American Civil
In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” on Tuesday to promote the expanded edition of his 2006 book “Passing Parade,” conservative commentator Mark Steyn criticized the global warming movement, including the hypocrisy of its leaders and the idea of
On his Twitter account on Tuesday, professional golfer Paul Azinger zinged Earth Day devotees, thanked the oil and gas that makes the world run, and even mocked a critic and global warming. Happy Earth Day I’m heading outside to exhale
“Imperial Presidency” perfectly describes what the Obama administration has become as it increasingly violates the limits on its power defined by the U.S. Constitution. Criticisms of how President Obama is overstepping his authority are now being heard from all sides
More Americans believe in God than in man-made global warming, claims a new survey. Some will seize on this as proof that Americans are credulous and anti-scientific, but I’d draw the opposite conclusion. The survey – insofar as it can
WASHINGTON (AP) — Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration’s conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and
From Salon.com: In the run-up to Earth Day this year, two major reports were released by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the largest such body in the world. On March 31, Working Group II released its report, Climate Change
A truly emetic announcement from the grim but indispensable Swedish flatpack furniture emporium IKEA: they are considering changing the recipe of their most popular food line – meatballs – in order to help save the world from global warming. Says
