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"new humiliations for the IPCC"

Posted by Rick · Published: February 8, 2010 · Comments (7)

There's growing scientific consensus that the IPCC is on its deathbed: It's not just the threat of Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035.Now another headline grabbing IPCC scare story is melting away. A report in Sunday's London Times highlights new humiliations for the IPCC.The most important is a claim that global... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (20 votes cast)

The Global Warming threat is analogous to the Y2K threat

Posted by Rick · Published: January 2, 2010 · Comments (37)

So sez Denis Dutton in, of all places, The New York Times:The so-called Y2K problem, the inability of computers to read dates beyond 1999 threatened to turn Jan. 1, 2000 into a nightmare. The issue had first been noticed by programmers in the 1950s, but had been ignored. As the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (23 votes cast)

Atmospheric CO2 levels have not increased

Posted by Rick · Published: January 2, 2010 · Comments (19)

Back in November, Al Gore was quoted as saying that "simply laying out the facts won't work". And of course, what isn't working is his anti-capitalist, anti-Western global warming scheme meant to line his pockets while preaching doom.The reason simply laying out the facts won't work is because many of... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (25 votes cast)

"They have been spouting the same nonsense for more than a decade"

Posted by Rick · Published: December 16, 2009 · Comments (19)

Yet another credentialed heretic speaks against the Gore-acle: I am a scientist, not a climatologist, so I don't dabble in climatology. My speciality is the epidemiology of mosquito-borne diseases. As the film [An Inconvenient Truth] began, I knew Mr Gore would get to mosquitoes: they're a favourite with climate-change activists. When... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (30 votes cast)

Al Gore is a big fat liar

Posted by Rick · Published: December 14, 2009 · Comments (20)

No, really: The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change "spin" row. Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (37 votes cast)

Not only did he invent the Internet, he's cured insomnia

Posted by Rick · Published: December 13, 2009 · Comments (8)

This is about as riveting and compelling as his ClimateGate denials: You can thank Gerard for this one... in fact, you should go over and see that Mr. Vanderleun considers Gore's poem to be lethal. Crossposted(*).... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.4/5 (5 votes cast)

Climategate: Justify Your Method of Homogenization

Posted by Rodney Graves · Published: December 13, 2009 · Comments (5)

Science Fiction Author and multiple PhD Jerry Pournelle has some questions for the CRU: Data and Climate Science First, if you have any interest in the climate debate, you must read the careful analysis of the data from Darwin, Australia that we referred to last evening. I have studied this... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (10 votes cast)

An Ecolife that has Proven to be Unliveable

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: December 11, 2009 · Comments (33)

Byron York has a piece at the Washington Examiner that is a must read. In it he exposes the lifestyle extreme environmentalists just like the ones meeting in Copenhagen want to force us to live. If the American people understood exactly what these environmentalists wanted for them they would run... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.1/5 (21 votes cast)

Copenhagen: the New Jonestown

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: December 8, 2009 · Comments (16)

Joel Kotkin at Forbes has a piece in which he argues Copenhagen's climate summit is nothing short of suicide for the West. Here's a portion: So why do leaders like Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown continue identifying themselves with the climate change agenda and policies like cap... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (25 votes cast)

Houston, we have a problem

Posted by Rick · Published: December 3, 2009 · Comments (29)

One easily solved it'd seem to me: The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water over charges it skewed... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (40 votes cast)

Global warming consensus: "load of hot air underpinned by fraud"

Posted by Rick · Published: December 2, 2009 · Comments (49)

The caca is hitting the rotary device: THE scientific consensus that mankind has caused climate change was rocked yesterday as a leading academic called it a "load of hot air underpinned by fraud". Professor Ian Plimer condemned the climate change lobby as "climate comrades" keeping the "gravy train" going. In... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (24 votes cast)

Climategate: The First Head Rolls

Posted by Rodney Graves · Published: December 1, 2009 · Comments (5)

So much for "settled science." UK climate scientist to temporarily step down AP LONDON -- Britain's University of East Anglia says the director of its prestigious Climatic Research Unit is stepping down pending an investigation into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change. The university says Phil... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (20 votes cast)

Church of Chicken Little stays faithful

Posted by Rick · Published: December 1, 2009 · Comments (13)

The heretical (that's you and me) must bend the knee. First up, the chairman of the IPCC: There is "virtually no possibility" of a few scientists biasing the advice given to governments by the UN's top global warming body, its chair said today. Rajendra Pachauri defended the Intergovernmental Panel on... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (17 votes cast)

The global warming house of cards is on the verge of collapse

Posted by Rick · Published: November 29, 2009 · Comments (49)

So much for peer review: SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (43 votes cast)

BBC Has Had Climategate Documents Since 12 October

Posted by Rodney Graves · Published: November 25, 2009 · Comments (14)

Move along, no collusion to see here... Climate change scandal deepens as BBC expert claims he was sent 'cover-up' emails a month before they went public By Carol Driver Daily Mail [of London].co.uk The controversy surrounding the global warming scandal today deepened after a BBC correspondent admitted he was sent... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (14 votes cast)

As the MSM Continues to Suppress Climategate

Posted by Rodney Graves · Published: November 24, 2009 · Comments (10)

We're already moving on to mockery and derision. Stick a fork in them, they're done. Hat Tip: Tigerhawk by way of the Purple Avenger at Ace of Spades.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (15 votes cast)

Not Evil Just Wrong premieres tonight

Posted by Rick · Published: October 18, 2009 · Comments (5)

Ed Hiserodt at NewAmerican gives us more: At 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 18, more than 1,400 groups will be hosting the movie Not Evil Just Wrong, a documentary about the real cost of global warming hysteria. A list of public premiers can be found at http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/your-premiere/public-premieres. It is billed... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (13 votes cast)

To hell with the U.S. economy, it's all about pleasing Copenhagen

Posted by Rick · Published: October 14, 2009 · Comments (8)

Just ask John Kerry: Democratic U.S. senators pushing legislation on global warming said on Tuesday they were making progress in winning support for the controversial measure, which is expected to begin moving through a key Senate committee sometime in November. "We will make our best effort and we will advance... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (15 votes cast)

News Flash: Polar Ice Caps Not Melting

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: May 16, 2009 · Comments (57)

James Delingpole brings us the news that a team of global warming explorers headed up to the North Pole to bring attention to all the damage global warming is wreaking on the polar ice caps. Sadly, they ran into a variety of problems that subfreezing temperatures tend to cause, one... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (53 votes cast)

The Cap and Trade Tax

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: May 3, 2009 · Comments (12)

In case you're unclear about what Cap and Trade is, let me offer some information that might shed some light. Cap and Trade is a tax. It's a big, big tax. This is probably the most accurate description of Cap and Trade that I've seen and explains it far better... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (27 votes cast)

Emotion Is Sometimes The Enemy of Effectiveness

Posted by DJ Drummond · Published: April 27, 2009 · Comments (7)

When I was young, I used to take part in various events meant to change the world. None of them did, though. Later I realized that this was never the real intention, anyway - the people who set up such events are trying to make themselves feel relevant, without actually... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (24 votes cast)

Holy Crap in the State of Washington

Posted by Charlie Quidnunc · Published: April 15, 2009 · Comments (9)

The State of Washington Department of Ecology, as pointed out by my local Seattle bloggers at Sound Politics is in deep doo-doo. This department is charged with environmental enforcement in the Evergreen State. Their job is to track down those nasty corporate polluters, carbon spewers, and other nefarious exploiters of... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (12 votes cast)

Connecting the Automotive and Energy Dots

Posted by Michael Laprarie · Published: April 1, 2009 · Comments (21)

Ever since the 1970's one of the main goals of the Democratic party has been to reduce the amount energy consumed by the United States. This is not a bad idea in and of itself, but its urgency has always been ideological, rather than market-based. Cheap oil prices and Reagan-era... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (10 votes cast)

Here's your next multi-billion dollar government subsidy ...

Posted by Michael Laprarie · Published: March 17, 2009 · Comments (19)

From the Los Angeles Times: "Hybrid car sales go from 60 to 0 at breakneck speed" Americans have cut back on buying vehicles of all types as the economy continues its slide. But the slowdown has been particularly brutal for hybrids, which use electricity and gasoline as power sources. They... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (23 votes cast)

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street. If you cop a squat, I'll tax your seat. If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat.

Posted by Baron Von Ottomatic · Published: February 17, 2009 · Comments (3)

Were I born with comedic writing talent this headline and lede in Perth Now! down under could generate a few guffaws:Householders to be charged for each flush of toilet November 16, 2008 03:00pm HOUSEHOLDERS would be charged for each flush under a radical new toilet tax designed to help beat... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (8 votes cast)