By Mark Hemingway Of all the questionable lessons being [taught] American public schools students, the idea that Legos are destroying the planet might just be the most absurd.”Riding in the car one day with his parents in Tacoma, Wash., Rafael de la Torre Batker, 9, was worried about whether it would be bad for the […]
Archive | September, 2010
Another Government Mandate
First they force you to buy health insurance, then wind power, too By Paul Chesser Sen. Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico Democrat, and Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican (and the party’s gubernatorial nominee) must be gluttons for punishment.Mandates to buy things – pushed by Washington – have fouled the political air. The public, which is shown […]
New Swiss Evidence Proves Modern Warming Cooler Than Medieval Warming Period, Study Finds
From C3 Headlines Read here. Map source here. Brand new peer-reviewed study that analyzes subfossils from a Swiss lake confirms what hundreds of previous peer-research have found: that the Medieval Warming had temperatures significantly warmer than modern ones. Read the rest at C3 Headlines.
All is Not What It Appears to Be
By Paul Chesser Hey! Did you know that what is depicted in those nature documentaries is not always genuinely “in the wild?” It’s often set up in controlled circumstances, according to Chris Palmer, author of a new book that uncovers the tricks used by wildlife videographers. From the Washington Post: …At 63, he has written […]
Climate "Science?" Both NOAA & Environment Canada Admit To Major Problems With Their Surface Temp Data
Read here and here. As critics of “global warming” science have pointed out for years, there are serious issues with the surface temperature datasets that result in corrupted global average temperatures that are currently used by policymakers. Unfortunately, it took the Climategate scandal(s) to reveal publicly the corruption and incompetence of global warming science. Now, […]
White House: Global Warming Out, 'Global Climate Disruption' In
From Fox News From the administration that brought you “man-caused disaster” and “overseas contingency operation,” another terminology change is in the pipeline.The White House wants the public to start using the term “global climate disruption” in place of “global warming” — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than […]
Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium
If Barack Obama were to marshal America’s vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project, he might reasonably hope to reinvent the global energy landscape and sketch an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard We could then stop arguing about wind mills, deepwater drilling, […]
Something's Rotten in Boston
By Elmer Beauregard HACKENSACK – Yet another Global Warming report came out yesterday, it’s called “Global Warming and Extreme Weather” and its put out by a group called Environment Minnesota. I haven’t had a chance to look at it in detail yet, but it seems to be the same old recycled shtick. They are trying […]
Light Bulb Factory Closes; End of Era for U.S. means More Jobs Overseas
By Peter Whoriskey The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison’s innovations in the 1870s.The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs. […]
The Environmental Movement in Retreat
By George F. Will The collapsing crusade for legislation to combat climate change raises a question: Has ever a political movement made so little of so many advantages? Its implosion has continued since “the Cluster of Copenhagen, when world leaders assembled for the single most unproductive and chaotic global gathering ever held.” So says Walter […]
Expert: Discovery Gunman far from First Eco-Terrorist
By James Tillman James Lee, the gunman who entered the Discovery Channel building and took three hostages yesterday because he thought the TV station should be doing more to combat overpopulation, might be the first hostage-taking environmentalist gunman. But according to John Berlau, author of “Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health,” radical environmentalists have […]
Meltdown of the Climate 'Consensus'
By Matt Patterson If this keeps up, no one’s going to trust any scientists. The global-warming establishment took a body blow this week, as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received a stunning rebuke from a top-notch independent investigation. For two decades, the IPCC has spearheaded efforts to convince the world’s governments that man-made […]
Man Holds Discovery Channel Hostage to Save the Squirrels
James Lee, who claims to have been inspired by “Ishmael,” a book about a telepathic gorilla in captivity and by Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” was just shot by police after taking three hostages at the Discovery Channel in Washington DC today. He was armed with a handgun and perhaps a bomb (or something that resembles a […]