I've got a few quick hits for you this Friday in global warming news. First, courtesy of Joliphant over at Redstate, comes the following graphic: Is increased C02 causing global warming? Or maybe is it caused by global warming? Second, we have news that all the coal-fired power plants and SUVs on Mars are a […]
You've got to love this from the free-market Tennessee Center for Policy Research. Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy. Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area […]
It was perhaps the surest Oscar bet of the past 30 years. That Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" would win the prize for Best Documentary. (Complete list of winners here.) Were the bookies in Vegas even taking bets on that category? Probably not, they're not that stupid. Last Monday, the Union-Tribune's new ombudsman wrote about […]
You want to get money from the public? Televangelists have often known one way to get the money to roll in is to put the fear of God into viewers. Oral Roberts famously warned his followers that if he didn't raise enough money, God was going to call him home. Unfortunately, Roberts was either wrong […]
I just got finished reading what should be the go-to source for anthropogenic global warming skeptics. "Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years," by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery answers just about every canard tossed out there by Al Gore and his global warming grant-money-seeking cadre. The heavily footnoted book makes the case that […]
Today's moron is Heidi Cullen, a "climatologist" who makes here living hosting a program on The Weather Channel called "The Climate Code." Ms. Cullen has a vested interest in human-generated global warming, because otherwise she'd be reporting the weather in Boise, Idaho. Ms. Cullen has made a name for herself of late by calling for […]
Via Instapundit comes this bit of falsehood in an Associated Press story. The United States is no longer bound by Kyoto, which the Bush administration rejected after taking office in 2001. For the record, the United States was never bound by Kyoto because the Clinton administration never sent it to the Senate for ratification after […]
London's Telegraph has posted an article by Christopher Monckton on the economic costs of slowing global warming and exactly what benefit you'll get for them. Sadly, the answers are "tons of money" and "not much at all." [Click on the print version of the story -- the regular html version has apparently lost the third […]
Is it lazy reporting? Ignorance? Or partisan politics? The Associated Press sent out this story on the Senate's dumbest member, California's own Barbara Boxer (who narrowly edged out Washington Sen. Patty Murray for the title), who is poised to take over the Senate Environment Committee. When informed that the Senate Enviornment Committee was concerned with […]
Dale Franks over at QandO has an excellent piece on global warming and public policy. My problem with the idea of making policy decisions based on what we know now about global warming is that, before you can solve a problem, the dimensions of the problem have to be defined, then a clear-eyed look at […]