By Jim Hopkins About a year ago, almost to the day, in this column, you may recall a bold prediction, fearlessly made. But lest you don’t, which is highly likely, since most of us wouldn’t remember a Higgs bison if we saw one in a game park, here it is again, much as it appeared […]
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Durban: Wild ambit fails, but money flows. “Landmark” non legal something-arother agreed to.
By Jo Nova Good news. The talented strategists left the UNFCCC team before COP17 in Durban. The A-graders saw the trainwreck coming and moved on. Everyone knows it’s a herculean task to get 190-odd countries to sign anything, and with a typical pragmatical approach the UN drafting team have gone for … not just a […]
Climate Skeptics Parachute into Climate Conference City Waving Climategate 2.0 Banners
From the Blaze On Tuesday, a skydiving team from the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) parachuted down on Toti beach, near the city where the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is taking place. The skydivers carried two signs, one reading “Climategate 2.0 Science Not […]
UN Urged To Control the Weather! Leaders call on UN to 'find solutions' to extreme weather or 'life as we know it will come to an end'
Climate Depot’s Report from Durban, South Africa UN Global Warming Conference – UN Goes Full Climate Astrology By Marc Morano DURBAN, South Africa – The South African media and government leaders are borrowing a page from medieval witchcraft when it comes to the science of man-made global warming. South African President Jacob Zuma literally believes […]
Global Warming Showdown: And Skeptics are Winning
U.N. prepares for urgent battle to extract $100 billion from U.S. By Michael F. Haverluck The U.S. and other developed nations are reconsidering their commitments to fight global warming before the upcoming 17th Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. The United Nations wants representatives of world governments and international organizations to advance its agenda […]
UN climate kooks want to cripple US economy and ban H2O
Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide and Destabilize US Econommy? From CFACT Some people will sign anything that includes phrases like, â€global effort,†“international community,†and “planetary.†Such was the case at COP 16, this year’s United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Cancun, Mexico. This year, CFACT students created two mock-petitions to test U.N. Delegates. The first asked participants to […]
Cancun climate change summit: scientists call for rationing in developed world
Global warming is now such a serious threat to mankind that climate change experts are calling for Second World War-style rationing in rich countries to bring down carbon emissions. By Louise Gray In a series of papers published by the Royal Society, physicists and chemists from some of world’s most respected scientific institutions, including Oxford […]
Binding climate change deal is impossible after Barack Obama's election defeat, says John Prescott
Barack Obama’s setback in the US mid-term elections has killed of any hope of securing a legally binding global climate change deal, John Prescott has said From the London Telegraph Negotiators should ditch hopes of enforcable targets on emmissions reductions and push instead for a voluntary framework at the upcoming Cancun summit, the former deputy […]
James Lovelock on the value of sceptics and why Copenhagen was doomed
We need a more authoritative world. We’ve become a sort of cheeky, egalitarian world where everyone can have their say. It’s all very well, but there are certain circumstances – a war is a typical example – where you can’t do that. You’ve got to have a few people with authority who you trust who […]
Depressing
By Richard of EUReferendum It’s been a heady few months for climate sceptics – or “deniers” as the opposition loves to call us. Starting with “climategate”, through a progression of “gates” with much else in between – including the apparent collapse at Copenhagen – it seemed as if we had the warmists on the run.Certainly, […]
Iceberg Ahead
Climate scientists who play fast and loose with the facts are imperiling not just their profession but the planet By Fred Guterl One of the most impressive visuals in Al Gore’s now famous slide show on global warming is a graph known as the “hockey stick.” It shows temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rising slowly […]
IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri under pressure to go over glacier error
By Ben Webster The head of the UN’s climate change body is under pressure to resign after one of his strongest allies in the environmental movement said his judgment was flawed and called for a new leader to restore confidence in climatic science. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has […]
Can Climate Forecasts Still Be Trusted?
Confidence Melting Away: Doubts Grow in Climate Change Debate By Gerald Traufetter The Siachen Glacier is home to the world’s highest crisis region. Here, at 6,000 meters (19,680 feet) above sea level, Indian and Pakistani soldiers face off, ensconced in heavily armed positions. The ongoing border dispute between the two nuclear powers has already claimed […]
Congress Went to Denmark, You Got the Bill
CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson Follows the Money from Copenhagen to the U.S. Taxpayer By Sharyl Attkisson Thanks to recently filed Congressional expense reports there’s new light shed on the Copenhagen Climate Summit in Denmark and how much it cost taxpayers. CBS News Investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports official filings and our own investigation show at […]