Industry study: Cap on greenhouse gas emissions would cost state 21,000 jobs By Bob Geiger Warning that Minnesota could lose 21,000 jobs and pay higher electricity costs by 2015, a group of business organizations and utilities announced Thursday that it will oppose a cap-and-trade system designed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.The warning, issued by Partners for […]
2008: The Year the “Consensus†Collapsed
Perhaps the debate isn’t over, but the tables have turned. Truth is an indomitable force. Suppressing it requires constant effort, because it can’t be changed. What is is. People can be convinced of a lie for a short time, but in the end, the truth reveals itself. Truth is patient because it is eternal, unchanging […]
UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
Study: Half of warming due to Sun! –Sea Levels Fail to Rise? – Warming Fears in ‘Dustbin of History’ POZNAN, Poland – The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the […]
Scientists: Manmade Global Warming is a Sham
By Carleton Bryant More than 650 scientists from around the world dispute the claims made by the United Nations and former Vice President Al Gore about global warming, saying that science does not support that climate change is a manmade phenomenon, according to a posting on the Senate environmental committee’s press blog. According to the […]
Money Being Made From Warming Scare
RED HOT LIES: HOW GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS USE THREATS, FRAUD AND DECEPTION TO KEEP YOU MISINFORMED By Larry Thornberry Christopher C. Horner has deconstructed global-warming alarmism before, but in “Red Hot Lies,” he focuses on how the global-warming industry, with huge money and power on the line, defends itself and perpetuates its beliefs. The senior […]
Farmers may Pay a Stiff Price for Contributions to Global Warming
By Philip Brasher Farmers are being warned they could pay a stiff price for their contributions to global warming. That could happen if the Environmental Protection Agency goes forward with regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the federal Clean Air Act, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. Under the law, livestock operations of all sizes and […]
Global Warming Ideas Disputed by PSU Professor
By Victoria Guay While a large number of people, including some scientists, believe that we are in an unprecedented period of global warming caused primarily by humans, Dr. James Koermer, a meteorology professor at Plymouth State University, would beg to differ. During a presentation at the university on Wednesday, Koermer explained why there are a […]
A Really Convenient Book About the Environment
Anyone concerned about the environment and seeking the best solutions for how to protect it will find The Really Inconvenient Truths, by Iain Murray, to be a valuable, fact-filled resource that is both informative and entertaining. By Alex Newman A man named Benjamin Cone from North Carolina bought land with no trees and allowed the […]
Ice From Ancient Global Warming Heats Debate
By Barry Brown Canadian researchers studying the Arctic´s ancient permafrost have discovered 700,000-year-old ice wedges buried in the soil that have survived earlier periods of global warming, adding complexity to predictions about the impact of contemporary climate change. Duane Froese, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science at the University of […]
Let the Data Speak for Itself
Despite the message favoured by environmental campaigners, temperatures in this decade have not been worse than expected By Björn Lomborg  Have you noticed how environmental campaigners almost inevitably say that not only is global warming happening and bad, but also that what we are seeing is even worse than expected? This is odd, because any reasonable […]
Polls Shaken By Poles
By Andrew Bolt Global warming believers told us this year to look at the Arctic – and heed the awesome lesson. And, boy, were they right. In fact, Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull especially should check it out, from the North Pole to Canada, which went to the polls last week. Of course, the reason the […]
Thirty Years of Warmer Temperatures Go Poof
By Lorne Gunter In early September, I began noticing a string of news stories about scientists rejecting the orthodoxy on global warming. Actually, it was more like a string of guest columns and long letters to the editor since it is hard for skeptical scientists to get published in the cabal of climate journals now […]
Alaskan Glaciers Grow for First Time in 250 years
High snowfall and cold weather to blame. By Michael Asher A bitterly cold Alaskan summer has had surprising results. For the first time in the area’s recorded history, area glaciers have begun to expand, rather than shrink. Summer temperatures, which were some 3 degrees below average, allowed record levels of winter snow to remain much longer, leading […]
Putin’s Useful Idiots
Wonder why Russia has Europe over a barrel? Ask German Environmentalists By William Yeatman It is said that Vladimir Lenin once called Soviet sympathizers in Western countries “useful idiots†for unwittingly advancing the cause of revolutionary Russia. Were the Bolshevik leader alive today, he might apply the same label to German environmentalists, whose influence over […]
Human Cost of Global Warming Hysteria the Subject of New Documentary
Not Evil Just Wrong Trailer (runtime 2:38) By Kevin Mooney Hysteria over global warming has opened the door to restrictive energy policies that greatly jeopardize not only average Americans but also low income families in developing countries who are already beset by rising prices, according a new documentary on the modern environmental movement  […]