As the anniversary of his Waterloo — ClimateGate — unfolds this week, Al Gore is back and in classic form. In yesterday’s HuffPo, he fulminates on his hobbyhorse, right from the title: The Media Has Failed in Covering the Climate
Meet Sarah Seltzer. She’s one of the great untold stories of the internet — that invention that allows everyone to have a voice whether they make good use of it or not. And, regrettably, she does not. To wit, her
President Obama made a giant error in letting “never had a real job” Timmie Giethner and “heck of a job” Larry Summers slither around his administration’s neck in 2008. Lucky us. We must not make the same mistake. We need
As some may recall, the filibuster-proof Senate did not move on cap-and-trade. In the past four years of Senate control, they did not try to ratify the US-signed, never unsigned Kyoto Protocol. Even after the filibuster-proof majority was lost by
Al Gore’s much ballyhooed Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) has recently announced that it will no longer be engaging in carbon trading, an activity that was the sole purpose that it was created. This is an utter failure of purpose in
For nearly two decades now, people have been arguing about climate change and getting nowhere. Right-wingers argue that global warming is a hoax based on unsubstantiated science, while left-wingers insist that not only is it real but unless we spend
So just a day after the Republicans won big, President Obama ran screaming from the “cap and trade” program like it was a hooker with herpes. Remember, this was his solution for global warming: curb carbon emissions by hiking the
For nearly two decades now, people have been arguing about climate change and getting nowhere. Right-wingers argue that global warming is a hoax based on unsubstantiated science, while left-wingers insist that not only is it real but unless we spend
Last week, I highlighted nine ballot initiatives that were worth watching because of their policy implications and/or their role is showing whether voters wanted more or less freedom. The results, by and large, are very encouraging. Let’s take a look
Has the so-called global warming crisis been propped up in the media and on the internet as the result of a single phrase? Astute Breitbart readers will know the IPCC theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is crumbling apart at
On November 2, American citizens will go to the polls to elect our political leaders. One state measure demands the attention of environmental and energy interests across the nation: Proposition 23 in California. Proposition 23 would delay implementation of AB32,
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and film director James Cameron both had a long, on stage conversation at a private event in Silicon Valley.
So, I’m sitting in my local diner staring at a pair of gorgeous breasts that are hovering over my husband’s face as the twenty year old waitress takes our lunch order. She purrs, “Ready?” I think she just winked at
I am constantly amazed by the double standards that characterize the environmental/liberal movement. Billionaires are bad…unless they are called Oprah, Spielberg, or Soros. Flying is bad too because of the emissions it produces is bad for the environment, or so
In the annals of history, there are fewer people easier to rile up than myself. I blame it on my Irish ancestors. Case in point, one time in Afghanistan I was in a guard tower with one of my best
The only way it gets worse than reading the latest pinko missive by Robert Redford on the Huffington Post would be if Michael Moore was checking your prostate at the same time and muttering, “No, no, no, that doesn’t feel
If you’re ever looking for an exhibit to illustrate the establishment media’s inability to view issues other than through their desired prism, look no further than last Wednesday’s Washington Post editorial page. The lead edit was a shrill tantrum about
In an address to Green Mountain College on May 15, Carol Browner, Director of Energy and Climate Change Policy, stated “The sooner the U.S. puts a cap on our dangerous carbon pollution, the sooner we can create a new generation
From Legal News Line: A new study focusing on what one organization feels is an abuse of power was released Wednesday, naming the 10 worst state attorneys general in recent history. Hans Bader, Counsel for Special Projects at the Competitive
This week, after three years of writing satirically about Hollywood and politics as “David Kahane” on National Review Online, I published Rules for Radical Conservatives, from which this excerpt is taken: Look, I have to admit there’s nothing wrong with
WARNING: GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING IMAGES WARNING: GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING IMAGES A satirical promotional video for the 10:10 initiative shows global warming skeptics being brutally killed at the push of a button. The sponsors have subsequently apologized and removed the video.
Look, I have to admit there’s nothing wrong with either the conservative or Republican base. Frankly, you guys terrify us, you and your damn fascist Tea Parties. Is there anything more frightening than seas of grandmothers waving American flags and
So, according to scientists, conservationists have been pumping up the number of extinct species – and that a third of all missing critters in recent centuries are still alive and pooping. According to one pointy-head, of the 187 mammal species
Deck chairs on the Titanic. What state ranks third in unemployment, second in foreclosures, has the nation’s worst credit rating, is running a $19 billion deficit – yet insists on spending billions on a greenhouse gas emissions reduction plan that
Environmental groups have launched a new effort, the Safe Climate Campaign, to radically transform the American automobile and fight climate change. Nathan Wilcox, global warming director at Environment America, states: “Americans want cars that go farther on a gallon of
