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Questions posed for Kerry, Lieberman on new climate-energy bill

The new Kerry-Lieberman climate bill mandates a 17% reduction in US carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. It first targets power plants that provide reliable, affordable electricity for American homes, schools, hospitals, offices and factories. Six years later, it further hobbles the manufacturing sector itself. Like the House-passed climate bill, Kerry-Lieberman also requires an 83% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2050. Once population growth and transportation, communication and electrification technologies are taken into account, this translates into requiring US emission levels last seen around 1870! House Speaker Pelosi says “every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory,” to ensure [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2012-09-16T22:33:26-04:00May 12th, 2010|Comments Off

(Desperately) Looking for Arctic warming

First American Ann Bancroft and Norwegian Liv Arnesen trekked off across the Arctic in the dead of the 2007 winter, “to raise awareness about global warming,” by showcasing the wide expanses of open water they were certain they would encounter. Instead, icy blasts drove temperatures inside their tent to -58 F, while outside the nighttime air plunged to -103 F. Open water is rare at those temperatures, the intrepid explorers discovered. Facing frostbite, amputated toes and even death, the two were airlifted out 18 miles into their 530-mile expedition. Next winter it was British swimmer and ecologist Lewis Gordon Pugh, who [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2012-09-16T22:33:26-04:00May 3rd, 2010|Comments Off

What’s the cost if Congress fails?

Commisioner Hedegaard posed this question: "While some argue that the U.S. cannot afford climate and energy legislation, my question is: Can the U.S. afford not to have ambitious legislation that paves the way for a more energy-efficient future? We all know that we are in for a future where energy and resources will be still more expensive, and the companies and nations that are the most energy-efficient will prosper the most." CFACT Executive Director, Craig Rucker responded to her question. Commissioner Hedegaard's Denmark may have surrounded itself with wind turbines, but could not afford such feel good luxuries if it were [...]

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Craig Rucker

|2010-04-19T08:27:02-04:00April 19th, 2010|Comments Off

Climate summit hangover

By Edgar GÃ¤rtner There were no significant steps taken toward a new global waming treaty at the April meeting in the Bonn Maritim Hotel of two ad hoc working. The official purpose of the conference was for the industrialized nations to negotiate additional obligations on the carbon dioxide reductions and their long-term co-operation with poorer countries. Two thousand delegates met in the conference centre's elegant halls. NGOs demonstrated on a pile of broken glass in the hotel's driveway as their way admonish conference participants over their recent fiasco in Copenhagen and to try launch a new run towards a Kyoto type [...]

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|2010-04-13T18:28:50-04:00April 13th, 2010|Comments Off

An independent review for the IPCC?

By Einar Du RietzThe IPCC report and work will undergo an independent review. It’s not a minute too soon, but neither is it too late. The debate will continue and most certainly will myths and false science continue to spread. The problem, as many sensible commentators have pointed out (a recent, rather objective summary with links is here) is not that mistakes were made. They are bound to occur in any scientific work. The problem is that the report was used as an argument to claim that “the Debate is Over”. And, of course that politicians frantically rushed in to spend [...]

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|2012-09-16T22:33:26-04:00February 28th, 2010|Comments Off

Video: Climate Cooling? Warming? Climate Models Are No Crystal Ball

AllPainNoGain.org has released a new video that features a group of expert scientists explaining how computer generated climate models that predict the climate over a very long time period are no crystal ball. Experts include: David Legates, Lord Christopher Monckton, Joseph D’Aleo, R. Anthony Lupo, John Theon, Doug Hoffman, and Allen Simmons.

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|2009-12-17T06:20:43-05:00December 17th, 2009|Comments Off

A different kind of red and green this Yuletide

From National Journal blog: Yesterday they marched, we marched. Noisy, insistent and colorful writes my co-blogger Keith Schneider. Keith, you are too kind. Too kind by far. Noisy - certainly. Insistent - yes, but not so much about protecting the environment as on tearing down our social fabric. We're environmentalists. These people's environmentalism is incoherent. There was plenty of shouting about climate, but their marchers were far more concerned with opposing capitalism, technology, democracy and western society than they were interested in environmentalism. Colorful? Now you've got it, but the color was not green, but red. Not touchy, feely euro-socialist red, [...]

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Craig Rucker

|2009-12-14T05:06:53-05:00December 14th, 2009|Comments Off

Knute suit

Taken from Craig Rucker's blog post on the National Journal website: What I see in Copenhagen continues to amaze me. Last night I drank beer with a couple of polar bears. The earnest young leftists in the Knute suits could only discuss climate at the pablum level. No thought, no examination, no understanding, just programmed propaganda. The polar bear population (now over 20,000) is at record levels. The'yre not drowning, (they swim better than you do). If you think they don't have plenty of ice, head north in your bathing suit and see how you like the clime. Hard science [...]

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|2009-12-13T16:00:14-05:00December 13th, 2009|Comments Off

National Journal: Clash between the Guardian and science

Executive Director Craig Rucker is an expert writing about the UN Conference on Climate Change for the National Journal's Copenhagen Insider.

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|2012-09-16T22:33:26-04:00December 10th, 2009|Comments Off

None dare call it fraud

Imagine the reaction if investment companies provided only rosy stock and economic data to prospective investors; manufacturers withheld chemical spill statistics from government regulators; or medical device and pharmaceutical companies doctored data on patients injured by their products. Media frenzies, congressional hearings, regulatory investigations, fines and jail sentences would come faster than you can say Henry Waxman. If those same standards were applied to global warming alarmists, many of them would be fined, dismissed and imprisoned, sanity might prevail, and the House-Senate cap-and-tax freight train would come to a screeching halt. Fortunately for alarmists, corporate standards do not apply – even [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2012-10-23T09:12:31-04:00October 20th, 2009|Comments Off

Adapting to climate change through technology

"Since when did you become a global warming alarmist?" I kidded Norman midway into our telephone conversation a few weeks before this amazing scientist and humanitarian died. "What are you talking about?" Dr. Borlaug retorted. "I've never believed that nonsense." I read a couple sentences from his July 29 Wall Street Journal article. "Within the next four decades, the world's farmers will have to double production ... on a shrinking land base and in the face of environmental demands caused by climate change. Indeed, [a recent Oxfam study concludes] that the multiple effects of climate change might reverse 50 years of work to end [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2012-09-16T22:33:26-04:00September 21st, 2009|Comments Off

‘Scientific consensus’ should be put on the stand

An issue for which the science is supposedly "settled" by a complete "consensus" of scientists would seem to offer the perfect opportunity to win over a skeptical public once and for all. But look no further than global warming movement's effort to ignore the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's call to put the science on trial, involving cross-examinations, witnesses, and a judge to make a final ruling. Climate fear promoters, knowing that they will lose an open, honest public debate, fear a trial moreso. There are some important pieces of evidence that cast into serious doubt the case for manmade global warming. [...]

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Marc Morano

|2012-09-16T22:33:26-04:00September 15th, 2009|Comments Off

Leader of none

“Few challenges facing America – and the world – are more urgent than combating climate change,” President Obama has asserted. “We will make it clear that America is ready to lead.” The President and Al Gore are certainly ready to lead. But how many will follow? Even in America, and certainly on the world stage, the two increasingly look like Don Quixote and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. As they tilt for windmills, and against a “monstrous giant of infamous repute” – climate disasters conjured up by computer models and Hollywood special effects masters – their erstwhile followers are making [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2012-09-16T22:34:06-04:00September 8th, 2009|Comments Off

Climate Depot is impacting Obama’s climate initiative

The Washington Post's Andrew Freedman of paper's "The Capital Weather Gang", has written a thorough commentary on why he believes the man-made global warming movement is failing politically and scientifically to convince the public and lawmakers of the seriousness of the issue. Freedman appears to lay the fault directly at the feet of President Obama, writing that Obama's "mistakes may cost the planet dearly." Freedman also cites Climate Depot (and the Heartland Institute) as having made a huge impact in shaping lawmakers and the public's skeptical view of the latest climate science. Freedman wrote in a September 1, 2009 Washington Post essay [...]

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Marc Morano

|2012-09-16T22:34:06-04:00September 1st, 2009|Comments Off

No, You Can Not!

By Charles G. Battig, M.D.In six short months, the inspiring campaign motto “Yes We Can” has been replaced by a pervasive “No, You Can Not!” How disappointed must be those who voted for believable change and a fresh start for our nation.No, You Can Not: point to a new openness in government, and easily access and read on-line, pending federal bills five days before they come to a vote (indeed, not even the Congress bothers to read its own 1,000 plus legislative bills with 300 page midnight add-ons).No, You Can Not: possibly have read and understood the monstrous TARP bill hastily [...]

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|2012-09-16T22:34:06-04:00August 3rd, 2009|Comments Off