It is a month into spring, and large parts of the Great Lakes are still frozen over from the winter that refuses to die. This all has The Huffington Post fretting about ducks and shipping lanes, but, uncharacteristically, not global
Scientists believe they have discovered a near-unprecedented phenomenon – rarer, more elusive and mysterious than even the God Particle: an article in The Huffington Post on the subject of the environment and climate change which doesn’t once mention ‘man-made global
Cybercast News Service reported on Thursday that the average price for a kilowatthour (KWH) of electricity hit a March record of 13.5 cents. This number was released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and shows that average price went
The Washington Free Beacon chronicles one of the many ways in which Big Government forces us to spend our money on propaganda designed to further the interests of the State: a taxpayer-funded play dubbed “Global Warming: The Musical,” for which
NOTE: This op-ed is apparently too hot for some editors to handle. Late last week it wasaccepted and posted on politix.topix.com only to be abruptly removed some two hourslater. After several hours of attempting to determine why it was removed,
The United Nations (UN) has delivered its latest verdict onthe measures necessary to save the world from global warming and thenews is as grim as it is predictable and wearisomely familiar: More regulation from “experts”, technocrats and bureaucrats atsupranational organisations,
An Inconvenient Truth utilized a failed presidential candidate with a Power Point presentation to warn the world about global warming. Flash forward eight years. That warming is now a pregnant pause, and some of the ex-Vice President’s dire predictions haven’t come
“How green bullying, junk science and EU lies killed off another successful industry,” I wrote in a piece a few months back. The story went roughly like this: 1. Greenpeace and similar organisations decide to target chemicals industry. 2. They
Hollywood big shots James Cameron, Harrison Ford, Don Cheadle, and Matt Damon will pretend to care about Texas in a nine-part Showtime miniseries that also pretends Global Warming is real. “Years of Living Dangerously,” which was apparently too stupid for
Do they still read at Harvard these days or is at all just about empathy, gender awareness, race sensitivity and important stuff like that? I only ask because if they do still read at Harvard there’s an article I’d like
People should eat fewer baked beans as the flatulence they produce contributes to global warming, a minister has suggested. A Labour peer raised the issue during questions in the House of Lords earlier today, saying that Britons eat more baked
British schoolchildren are being brainwashed by a deep green environmental curriculum which fills their heads with “confusion, ignorance and fear”, says a new study by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. The report, by science writer Andrew Montford and statistician John
Hornswoggle is a word I have always liked. It is a verb meaning to bamboozle or to dupe. While its origin is considered “unknown,” the word is generally thought to be native to America. The word is said to date
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
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2014 Bloggies – the web’s longest-running blog awards, as voted for by readers all around the world. Here’s a curious thing: no fewer than seven of the category winners are prominent climate skeptics. They are:
Judging by the quotes in the Hollywood Reporter article, no one involved in the first “Inconvenient Truth” film intends to do anything except tell another bunch of lies. [Producer Lawrence] Bender believes that during the ensuing years, the fossil-fuel industry
Back when I was suggesting people of faith give Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah” a chance before dismissing it, one of the ideas I floated in this forum was that viewers might be inspired to read the source material, which would be
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
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
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
