Former Vice President Al Gore gushed over President Barack Obama’s climate change speech on Tuesday, saying the “historic” and “terrific” speech was “by far the best address on climate by any president ever.” He said he hoped climate change would
President Barack Obama’s big global warming speech on Tuesday straddled the fence on whether he will approve the popular Keystone pipeline, leaving both supporters and opponents of the project with renewed hope that the president with side with them. Obama
Like all members of the Church of Global Warming, President Obama loves to imply that critics are stupid or anti-science, even though all the science is on the critics’ side. Thus, even as the actual scientific data shreds every
Hans von Storch is a German climate scientists who believes global warming is real but now admits, in an interview with Der Spiegel, that climate models seem to have some problems. Von Storch comes across as a moderate in the
A World Bank study has found the global elite superclass, composed of figures such as Al Gore who take lavish jets to conferences in places like Davos, leave large carbon footprints when traveling in first class. The Daily Mail cites a World Bank study in
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard joined forces with former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to urge global action on climate change, saying politics must be put aside. The unlikely pair met in Perth on Thursday and jointly penned an opinion piece
As someone old enough to remember magazine covers from the seventies declaring Global Cooling an existential threat, let’s just say I know a hustle when I hear one. And now that we have enjoyed 15 years wherein the global temperature
Those who are determined to return America to a state of easily controlled pre-industrial low-energy squalor have been beside themselves since the beginning of the “fracking” revolution. Hydraulic fracturing has tapped into immense energy resources, so there just has to
By JOSEF FEDERMANAssociated PressJERUSALEM It was an audacious idea that came to symbolize Israel’s self-described status as “Start-Up Nation,” a company that believed it could replace most gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles and reduce the world’s reliance on oil —
Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse May 20th, 2013 More than 95 percent of climate scientists are convinced that human carbon pollution is causing massive and unprecedented changes to our atmosphere and oceans. You want to go with the five percent,
On Monday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) used the devastating Oklahoma tornado as an excuse to bash Republicans for denying global warming and implied Republicans were responsible for actually allowing the destructive natural disaster to occur. “So, you may have a
The destructive tornado that destroyed the quiet town of Moore, Oklahoma was only a few hours gone. The devastation had yet to be measured, and the dead barely counted much less mourned and laid to rest. Politico’s Glenn Thrush felt
In response to Hillary Clinton Does ‘Hard Hitting’ Climate Change Interview With Hollywood Actor : You know the global-warming fanatics have hit a low point when they’re reduced to asking Benghazi Rodham Clinton and an antique actor to shovel their
China will not pay for CO2 emissions by its airlines on flights within Europe, a top civil aviation official reportedly said after the European Commission warned eight Chinese firms face fines for nonpayment. The world’s second largest economy “will not
Jim Messina, head of Barack Obama’s Organizing For Action (OFA) grass-roots campaign operation, wrote a fundraising memo in which he revealed OFA’s plans to vilify global-warming doubters as crazy. The memo read like this: Friend ?– Notice the question mark. You have
President Barack Obama’s campaign-turned-pressure group, Organizing for Action (OFA), has sent out a number of emails recently attacking Republicans on global warming. One of their top targets on the issue, amusingly, is Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), whose support for immigration
Organizing For Action, Barack Obama’s political action group and permanent campaign apparatus, has decided that if conservatives don’t believe in global warming, they believe in unicorns. Ivan Frishberg, the “Climate Campaign Manager” for Organizing for Action, wrote, If I said
The week of April 23-30, 2013, was a bad one for global-warming true believers. Measuring temperatures across the United States, and taking note of how many record-low temperatures were recorded versus how many record-high temperatures, the results were stunning. The
In the dying days of the “climate change” fraud, the political hacks who used to to frighten so much power and money out of the populace have grown absolutely comical in their desperation. The people who used to sneer that
The headline at the UK Independent caught my eye: “One giant leap for mankind: £13bn Iter project makes breakthrough in the quest for nuclear fusion, a solution to climate change and an age of clean, cheap energy.” Of course, as
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, likening the bombing of the Boston Marathon to global warming, said that the situation in Boston was the “new normal,” the same terminology he used to describe climate change in a November 2012 op-ed for
Quick, what political party does Tom Cruise support? Cruise has been in the public eye for decades, and while we’re all aware of his marital woes, couch jumping antics and religious affiliation we know precious little about his voting preferences.
Multi-talented performer Bette Midler is apparently doing plenty of scientific research in between movies and other entertainment gigs. This week alone on Twitter Midler shared her latest theory on brain size analysis as well as looked ahead to what will
Good catch at Newsbusters Wednesday. The anti-science Al Roker, who obviously hasn’t bothered to read the latest edition of The Economist, responds the news that 37% of people polled have figured out global Warming is a hoax with a “Whoa”
Perhaps I’m just bitter that global warming has enveloped my home in a cold snap, but I welcome the news that an intrepid Ohio prosecutor has filed a criminal indictment against folklore’s weirdest character, Punxsutawney Phil. Oh, and the prosecutor
The Los Angeles Times ran a Thursday editorial by Middlebury College Professor Bill McKibben arguing that allowing millions of illegal immigrants into America will reduce global warming. “I feel it’s urgent that we get real immigration reform, allowing millions to
Place your bets. The six inches of snow that is expected to clog city streets from Chicago to Washington D.C. tomorrow, hasn’t been blamed on the sequester or global warming: Yet…
Global warming, or climate change as environmentalists prefer to call it during colder seasons of the year, is now considered a root cause of Middle Eastern violence, according to liberals. The Washington D.C. based liberal think tank Center for American
But I’m in such a mood I can only think bring it on, oh Sweet Meteor of Death. It turns out the meteor that landed in Russia last week was a bit bigger than the 10 tons first reported. About
Ace and John’s debate over ideology and film reminded me of Jonah Goldberg’s wonderfully counter-intuitive column this week about leaving liberal Hollywood to liberals. His points about the unintended political consequences of “The Wire” and how no amount of global
“Alex, I’ll take climate change fear mongers for $400, please …” The syndicated game show Jeopardy! doesn’t typically allow stars to appear on the show to hawk their latest projects. Actors do that on the late night talk show circuit,
In response to Thousands Expected To March Against The Keystone Pipeline in DC Sunday.: As promised, thousands of environmental activists showed up in DC, Sunday, to march to the White House inopposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. Here, courtesy of
In response to Blaming Sandy on Climate Change, Obama Contradicts Himself in SOTU: I was almost a bit surprised that Obama tried skimming that little “global warming causes hurricanes” stone, because the climate-change cult has grown a bit sensitive about
Pew released a poll today that puts into stark contrast the widening gap between the elite media and the American people. When asked what their priorities were for Obama’s second term, the American people overwhelmingly chose as their top three
In response to Out of the Mouths of Reporters: After blaming “climate change” (caused, apparently, by my electric Margarita machine) for volcanos, earthquakes, and tsunamis, why the hell not asteroids? I eagerly await some intrepid journo-scientist investigating how climate change
In response to Out of the Mouths of Reporters: Another thought about the “global warming attracts asteroids” nuttiness: Leftists understand that even patently absurd propaganda can be effective when it’s wall-to-wall. Global warming (and later, when that term became too
In response to Out of the Mouths of Reporters: That’s really one for the books, Ace, although as you mentioned, it’s not really all that far removed from the regular fare at the Church of Global Warming. It’s funny how
CNN’s having a hell of a couple of weeks, huh? CNN Reporter Deb Feyerick: Is the approaching asteroid caused by global warming? We, as a society, are degenerating. How is this any different from primitive tribesmen blaming every dead bird