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‘Cool it’ with all the research dollars
By Paul Driessen & Robert Carter Article originally published in The Washington Times. -------------------------------- Bjorn Lomborg is avidly courting publicity for his new film, "Cool It." He correctly observes that public discussion about global warming is largely between two entrenched camps of opinion. He's also right about our needing a "Plan B" climate policy that defuses the current rancorous and unproductive debate about "the man-made climate problem." Mr. Lomborg's first camp is inhabited by warming alarmists, supported by the majesty of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Most major institutions in Western society have joined their funereal fugue (and funding [...]
End the ethanol subsidies
What am I missing? There must be some aspect of our insane energy policies that I fail to appreciate. “We the People” just booted a boatload of spendthrifts out of Congress, after they helped engineer a $1.3 trillion deficit on America’s FY-2010 budget and balloon our cumulative national debt to $13.7 trillion.The “bipartisan White House deficit reduction panel” chimed in with a 50-page draft proposal, offering suggestions for $3.8 trillion in future budgetary savings. The proposal targets $100 billion in Defense Department weapons programs, healthcare benefits and overseas bases. It also proposes a $13-billion cutback in the federal workforce and lining out [...]
Climate change no longer scary in Europe
By Hans LabohmBjorn Lomborg’s ongoing publicity campaign for his new film makes it obvious that the fight against the delusion of dangerous man-made global warming remains an uphill struggle.For decades the climate debate has been obfuscated by cherry-picking, spin-doctoring and scare-mongering by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other climate alarmists, including the environmental movement and mainstream media. Their massive effort to overstate the threat of man-made warming has left its imprint on public opinion.But the tide seems to be turning. The Climate Conference fiasco in Copenhagen, Climategate scandal and stabilization of worldwide temperatures since 1995 have given [...]
Climate sanity comes to Canada
By Redmond WeissenbergerOn Tuesday November 17th, a little sanity came to the Parliament of Canada. The Canadian Senate killed the NDP sponsored Bill C-311, “The Climate Change Accountability Act.”Introduced on February 9th, 2009 the bill was subtitled, "An Act to ensure Canada assumes its responsibilities in preventing dangerous climate change." This was, of course, before Climate-gate, before Glacier-gate, before the Canadian IPCC Citizens Audit showed that fully 1/3 of the IPCC 4th Assessment Report's references were not peer-reviewed, and before the Copenhagen Climate Conference failed amid statements like the one from the head of the G77 Group, Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, who [...]
Real crimes against humanity
This month's elections resoundingly affirm that America's top priorities are economic growth, job creation and less Washington control of our lives. The elections are likely the final nail in the cap-and-tax coffin.However, even before close contests could be decided, President Obama announced that he will be "looking for other means" besides cap-and-tax to address the "problem" of carbon emissions and what the White House now calls "global climate disruption." His top priorities include using the "lame duck" session and administrative actions to implement his "climate control" and renewable energy agenda: Environmental Protection Agency regulation of hydrocarbon energy, based on the assertion [...]
Alarmist spammer unleashes Twitterbot to stifle climate debate
Nigel Leck, an Australian software developer, grew tired of debating climate realists on Twitter so he created a spambot to “wear down” his opponents. The bot, @AI_AGW, scans Twitter every five minutes looking for key phrases commonly used by those who challenge the global warming orthodoxy. It then posts one of hundreds of canned responses hoping to frustrate skeptics. CFACT’s Twitter account @CFACT (follow us!) often receives many of these unsolicited messages each day. Since the bot became active on May 26, 2010, it has sent out over 40,000 tweets, or an average of more than 240 updates per day!Technology Review [...]
No more double standards
False, misleading or fraudulent claims have long brought the wrath of juries, judges and government agencies down on perpetrators. So have substandard manufacturing practices. GlaxoSmith Klein has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $750-million fine for manufacturing deficiencies at a former pharmaceuticals plant. Even though there was no indication of patient harm, said the US attorney, the fine was needed “to pressure companies to follow the rules.” Johnson & Johnson was recently slapped with a $258-million jury verdict for allegedly misleading claims about the safety and superiority of an antipsychotic drug. J&J’s actions “defrauded the Louisiana Medicaid system,” prosecutors argued. [...]
Dead Aid: Is foreign aid killing Africa?
By Duggan FlanakinDambisa Moyo hails from the tiny southern African nation of Zambia; she transferred to an American university only after a failed coup that shut down her university. After graduation, she worked for the World Bank for 2 years before pursuing a master’s degree at the JFK School of Government at Harvard. Next it was Oxford for her Ph. D. in economics – and then eight years with Goldman Sachs. Bright African women who go to Harvard and Oxford are supposed to honor their mentors as sages – to line their countries up for their fair share of foreign aid [...]
The slow death of the environmental movement
By Alan Caruba“Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.” – Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!“If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” – Prince Phillip, World Wildlife FundIf you want to understand how utterly soulless and nihilistic environmentalism is than you need only pay attention to what they say. (Click here for more such quotations)My friend, Joseph A. Olson, PE, recently wrote of “Climate Science’s Worst Week in History” in which he noted a series of events such as the [...]
Natural resources fuel North Dakota’s economic boom
While the rest of the country suffers through unemployment, foreclosures, bank failures, and budget deficits, North Dakota is on a roll – thanks in large part to its abundant resources of oil and natural gas, almost all of which are on private land.
Environmental injustice en Español
By Rev. Sam RodriguezNineteen Latino activist groups recently asked Congress and President Obama to oppose any attempts to delay or scale back proposed Environmental Protection Agency air pollution and climate regulations.The groups’ letter cites EPA claims that “rising temperatures caused by human activities” would lead to higher levels of ground-level ozone, the main ingredient in smog. This they assert, again citing EPA claims, would lead to health problems in cities with large Hispanic populations, because low-income and minority communities are often less able to pay costs associated with heat-related health threats.Therefore, they argue, any legislation that affects the proposed Clean Air [...]
Land war in the West heats up
Faced with their constituents’ soaring unemployment and growing frustration over Washington’s suppression of their region’s once-thriving natural resources industry, members of the Congressional Western Caucus have issued a blistering report excoriating the Obama administration’s policies towards the West.The 25-page report, “The War on Western Jobs,” was released on Sept. 30 and bears the names of the caucus’s co-chairmen: Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) and Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah). “This administration’s anti-business, anti-multiple use agenda threatens western communities,” the report says. “It is killing jobs and undermining state and local budgets.”“Washington’s misguided policies,” the report points out, are restricting “access to America’s vast [...]
The EPA’s long war on chemicals
By Alan CarubaOne of the shows I enjoy watching on the Science Channel is “How It’s Made.” All manner of things we use to enhance our lives start out as raw materials and the process of manufacturing is a miracle of transformation.Virtually all forms of manufacturing require some chemical element, often several. Given the indispensability of chemicals in society and commerce, does it strike anyone as odd that, if you were born after 1960, there’s a high likelihood that you grew up being told that “chemicals” are bad?In 1962 Rachel Carson kicked off this bizarre notion with her bestselling book, “Silent [...]
Climate Depot grabs spotlight for coverage of violent climate video
Marc Morano of CFACT's Climate Depot has been widely cited in the media this week. In the above video, Morano appeared on Fox News to discuss the violent climate change video recently released by the environmental group 10:10. In this video (you can watch the full version here, but be warned it is very graphic), a classroom of students are asked whether they plan to reduce their carbon footprints. The few who dissent are murdered by their teacher – covering their classmates in blood. Viewers are then treated to a repeat of this gory spectacle in business, sports and media settings. [...]