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 […]
Archive | October, 2008
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  […]
Climate Plan is Business Poison
From Utah’s Daily Herald A week ago Utah joined in announcing a plan to fight global warming — but the real danger lies in cooling: the cooling of the world’s climate, and the chilly outlook for the state’s economy. The Western Climate Initiative has trumpeted a cap-and-trade system to cut carbon emissions and thus fight […]
Global cooling sign: Solar winds at 50-year-low
By Lawrence Solomon In yet another sign that the Earth could be heading in to a period of global cooling, NASA reports that the solar wind is now at a 50-year low, the lowest that NASA has seen. This change in solar activity, which began to occur about a decade ago, coincides with the end […]