Lord Lawson calls for public inquiry into UEA global warming data 'manipulation'
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The language used to justify population scaremongering has changed dramatically over the centuries. In the time of Malthus in the eighteenth century the main concern was with the fecundity of poor' [...]
Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman have been working overtime to craft a climate bill that can attract significant GOP support. But they aren’t exactly scoring points with their mutual best friend in the Senate, John McCain.
“Their start has been horrendous,” McCain said Thursday. “Obviously, they’re going nowhere.”
McCain has [...]
Forgive my slackitude on providing details of the Hadley CRU hack that Chris referenced yesterday. We've been busy around here staying on top of health-care legislation and trying to keep the lights on.
Thankfully, Planet Gore contributor James Delingpole serves up some nuggets and analysis on' [...]
Now, none of us can attest to the validity [...]
Talk of Plan B -- a Power Plant-Only Climate Bill -- Emerges in Senate
What was once the central political battleground for addressing global warming in the United States may be making a comeback.
While President Obama and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill continue to focus on legislation covering [...]
“What happens when developing nations with soaring vehicle populations get tens of millions of petroleum-powered cars at the same time as the global economy recovers and there’s no large global oil supply overhang?” asks Felix [...]
Gore might be able to say [...]
As part of a newly announced $338 million boost for 123 geothermal energy projects nationwide, the Department of Energy will sink $25 million into what is called an “enhanced” or “engineered” geothermal demonstration project in Oregon being developed in part by [...]
Four centuries ago, “heretics” who disagreed with Church orthodoxy were burned at the stake. Many were the dissenting views that could send offenders to a [...]
Imagine if George W. Bush, John McCain, or the hated politician of the moment, Sarah Palin, had said such a thing -- spouting off some [...]
A wise man's heart inclines him toward the right, but a fool's heart toward the left.
-- Ecclesiastes 10:2
I'm offering you the choice of life or death. You can choose either blessings or curses.
--Deuteronomy Chapter 30, Verse 19
And check out the ridiculous cover.
[Me] The geothermal gradient is usually quoted as 25-50 degrees Celsius per mile of depth in normal terrain (not, e.g., in
The more of these sniveling (and, amusingly, poorly informed) pieces like this Der Spiegel item, the better, I say. And I hope Drudge links to every one. Europe has every reason to believe in Obama’s deep and -- they hope -- overwhelming desire to do whatever it takes to [...]
I've recycled the photos from my May 2008 "On the Rocks" post, but the story is new.
Yes, the Kapitan Khlebnikov eco-tour icebreaker is once again stuck in polar ice -- excuse me "rapidly disappearing polar ice." This year, it happened off Antarctica.
But' [...]
BTW, the next source I talk with who thinks cap-and-trade has a chance in 2010 will be the first who tells me that. . . .
Alaska governor Sean Parnell said he intends to pursue the state's lawsuit against the federal government concerning the listing of the polar bear under the Endagered Species Act (ESA).
The lawsuit was initiated under former governor Sarah Palin, before she resigned in July.
Parnell said the ESA is [...]
US President Barack Obama came to office promising hope and change. But on climate change, he has followed in the footsteps of his predecessor George W. Bush. Now, should the climate summit in Copenhagen fail, the blame will lie squarely with Obama.
The folder labeled "climate change" that George W. [...]
Video with subtitles here. Transcript here.
Thanks to reader G-123.
Ethiopia, Malnutrition and Climate Change -- Focusing on global warming at the expense of food aid is immoral.
Global warming has captured the attention of politicians around the world. The following article is part of a series leading up to the December [...]
Agribusiness has been vilified of [...]
Greg noted earlier the New York Times report from the climate confab in Singapore.
Read down the article and note the several claims by participants offering the greatest exhibits imaginable of the running absurdity -- now in its 18th year! -- that is this movable feast of conferences in Rio, Barcelona, [...]
SINGAPORE -- President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate change agreement at a global climate conference scheduled for next month,' [...]
Former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a close ally of the Obama administration, said today that the U.S. is not likely to have anything substantial to show for itself by the time the president [...]
The Chamber of Commerce recently bowed to pressure from big member companies and cravenly pleaded for some form of global-warming legislation. It defended this in e-mails and private meetings with an argument that “we merely restated our position . . . in a different way.” So it is with Congress, [...]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is pushing back against home-state conservative critics who have sought to censure the independent-minded lawmaker, arguing that he will not allow the criticism to block his efforts to find common ground with others in the Senate.
The Charleston County Republican Party this week formally censured [...]
New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) With barely a month left for the start of the climate change conference at Copenhagen, the United States Friday indicated that it will not initial any treaty there, until it gets approval from the [...]
Everyone in Britain could be given a personal 'carbon allowance'
Everyone in Britain should have an annual carbon ration and be penalised if they use too much fuel, the head of the Environment Agency will say.
In other words, rationing. And if climate change really is the horror that politicians say [...]
Less than a month before negotiators will meet in Copenhagen with the lofty goal of crafting a deal to curb global greenhouse gas emissions, the Obama administration is considering endorsing a limited short-term climate [...]
For example, the [...]
China is the largest emitter of greenhouse gas on the planet. We burn more carbon per person, but China has more people, and both its population and economy are growing much faster than ours. For many members of Congress, a vote for strict carbon limits will be [...]
"Across the U.S. as a whole, approximately 50 percent of the warming that has occurred since 1950 is due to land use changes (usually in the form of clearing forest for crops or cities) rather than to" [...]
Last spring Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn asked Al Gore during a House hearing if his investments in green energy meant he would benefit personally from cap and trade.
"If you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is" [...]
The most obvious use for the Interstate’s corridors is rail transportation. If we are going to [...]
The institutional and establishment flailing over the exposure of the “green jobs” myth has yielded a possible trove of documents, but also gone from personal attacks to desperate lies. These guys have been gotten to, but good.
First, I’m told by the relevant Freedom of Information Act officer that there are [...]
Peter Robinson sits down with Czech president Vaclav Klaus to discuss the communist red under the surface of the environmentalist green:
Communism and environmentalism -- we are talking about two ideologies that are structurally very similar. They are against individual freedom. They are in favor of centralist master-minding of our fates. [...]
This year on "30 Rock," corporate boss Jack Donaghy tells the late-night show's staff it has to cut its carbon footprint by 5 percent, and puts Kenneth the Page in charge of getting [...]
California is expected to implement energy-conserving regulations any day now that manufacturers and retailers say will in effect ban the sale of big-screen TVs in the state. Other states are likely to follow the Golden State’s “green” initiative in the months ahead.
But a new Rasmussen [...]
A married couple, both EPA attorneys in San Francisco, have caused a brouhaha in Washington by posting a ten-minute YouTube video criticizing the Waxman-Markey effort at cap-and-trade.
In “The Huge Mistake,” Alan Zabel and Laurie Williams -- who each have 20 years of experience in EPA’s San Francisco regional office [...]
The world is considering a new financial market larger than any commodity, it’s “based on science”, but if you ask for evidence, you’re called names -- “Denier”, and by our Prime Minister, no less. [...]
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 9 (Reuters) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Washington on Tuesday to lobby U.S. congressional leaders and government officials over next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen, U.N. officials said.
The world body wants to clinch a deal [...]
President Obama’s headed to Copenhagen next month to talk climate change. Al Gore’s headed toward profits that could make him the world’s first "carbon billionaire." But where’s global temperature headed?
Nowhere, it seems. The most reliable readings of the Earth’s temperature show that [...]
LONDON -- The British government unveiled plans Monday to launch one of the world's most ambitious expansions of nuclear-power capacity, calling for the construction of 10 plants to help meet surging energy demands in the era of global warming.
After years of resistance to construction of nuclear-power plants, the [...]
“A BELIEF in man-made climate change and the alleged resulting moral imperatives is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief [...]
Chrysler has disbanded a team of engineers dedicated to rushing a range of electric vehicles to showrooms and dropped ambitious sales targets for battery-powered cars set as it was sliding toward bankruptcy and seeking government aid.
The move by Fiat SpA marks a major reversal for Chrysler, which had [...]
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer on Monday called for a "comprehensive" review of all renewable energy projects seeking funding from the economic stimulus package, following reports that $849 million in U.S. grants have gone to foreign wind companies in the past two months alone.
The New York Democrat [...]
Apropos of my post last week about Chancellor Merkel’s unseemly appeal before a joint session of Congress, calling on us to tear down the metaphorical wall holding us back from committing economic suicide and institutionalizing socialism here where all other attempts have (largely) failed, please note CEI’s effort celebrating [...]
The Independent has a piece illustrating why readers have lost faith in it as a news source, called "Bureaucrats clash on shape of climate deal." It opens with the following.
Bureaucratic detail should be the last thing that prevents an agreement to save the planet from climate change. After all, [...]
As America climbs out of one of its worst recessions in decades, we must keep in mind that long-term economic growth requires an abundant, affordable supply of electricity.
By 2030, electricity demand in the U.S. is expected to grow by [...]
In the developed world, when we consider how best to help Bangladesh, our minds quickly turn to policies that would reduce the amount of carbon emissions to lessen the risk [...]
Well, I knew, as did most market-oriented environmentalists -- but saying so back in the 1990s got you excommunicated from the green church.
When officials in Paris arranged to have 20,000 pricey bicycles placed at bike-sharing stations around the city, they were conducting an experiment both on a transportation system and on human nature. In two years, more than 80 percent of the bikes have been damaged or [...]
Even as a Senate global-warming bill remained in limbo with Democrats refusing to delay a committee vote until an economic analysis was completed, hopes rose for a potential bipartisan compromise.
The Senate, meanwhile, appears [...]
Lower-carbon future? Try natural gas.
The public debate on climate change can seem beguilingly simple: alternative fuels good; fossil fuels bad. If we burn less of the latter and use more of the former, the argument goes, we will be well [...]
An excerpt:
A world treaty on climate change will be delayed by up to a year and is likely to be watered down because countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions are refusing to commit to legally binding [...]
People say that the election of Barack Obama and his pursuit of radical measures -- from state-run health care to unilateral nuclear disarmament -- marks the end of American conservatism. One Jeremiah, Sam Tanenhaus, has produced a predictable book, The Death of Conservatism. I [...]
Yesterday, at the Washington Times' day-long confab on climate policy -- featuring Sen. Inhofe, Rep. Markey and Czech Pres. Vaclav Klaus -- I was part of a panel which was asked by moderator Jeff Birnbaum to share our thoughts about Sens. Kerry and Graham's claim to be developing a way' [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A controversial climate change bill cleared its first hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, allowing President Barack Obama to tout [...]
New Scientist: [...]
“Stabenow has been working for about 18 months on a farms and forests bill,” reports CQ Today. “It will probably [...]
WASHINGTON -- The most common deals under the government's $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program, aimed at putting more fuel-efficient cars on the road, replaced old Ford or Chevrolet pickups with new ones that got only marginally better gas mileage, according [...]
The Sun today: some activity, but no spots.
