"Such concerns are not justified."
"As often as not, the constructs that emerge in the theoretical sim world do not qualify as proof of what happens in the real world."
(Yesterday, documents purporting to be confidential strategy memos from The Heartland Institute, a national think tank and major player in the controversy over claims of an impending anthropogenic global warming (now climate change) crisis, were published by The Huffington Post and throughout much of the progressive-left blogosphere. The following is Heartland's statement about the stolen and fraudulent documents.)Yesterday afternoon, two advocacy groups posted online several documents they claimed were The Heartland Institute’s 2012 budget, fundraising, and strategy plans. Some of these documents were stolen from…
We may have reached a watershed moment in American culture. As I made my morning trek to the LA Times website yesterday, I saw a headline that made me a bit suspicious, “U.S. seems to have largely escaped winter.” I live in the Chicago area, and as a native southern Californian I do not state it too strongly when I say I hate the weather here, and I hate winter more than the other seasons (btw, late summer/early fall is the time to visit Chicago).…
Here's some proof religious people can often speak more wisely about science than many scientists The jury's out, says Cardinal George Pell of Sydney, on what's really happening with the climate, and precipitous action is ill-advised, at best:"My appeal is to reason and evidence," he says, "and in my view the evidence is insufficient to achieve practical certainty on many of these scientific issues."Any "appeal to the consenual view among qualified scientists . . . is a category error, scientifically and philosophically. In fact, it…
At least, that’s what a study from the Reason Foundation seems to imply: Proponents of drastic curbs on greenhouse gas emissions claim that such emissions cause global warming and that this exacerbates the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including extreme heat, droughts, floods and storms such as hurricanes and cyclones. But what matters is not the incidence of extreme weather events per se but the impact of such events—especially the human impact. To that end, it is instructive to examine trends in global…
The possibility that rays coming from the sun might have a determining effect on the earth’s climate should provoke interest, not dread, but in some circles the very idea is politically discomfiting: In April 1990, Al Gore published an open letter in the New York Times “To Skeptics on Global Warming” in which he compared them to medieval flat-Earthers. He soon became vice president and his conviction that climate change was dominated by man-made emissions went mainstream. Western governments embarked on a new era of…
Carbon dioxide (CO2) has been designated as an atmospheric pollutant and a threat to life on Planet Earth by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). To see how much of a threat it really is, read this summary of a report (PDF, 14 pages, 2.03 MB) that explains the “55 Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment”. The areas in which carbon dioxide actually helps the environment are listed below: Air Pollution Stress (Non–Ozone) Air Pollution Stress (Ozone) Avoiding Human Starvation and Plant and Animal Extinctions Bacteria Biodiversity…
By Mike Gray A new study suggests that your values, not science, determine your views about climate change. — Ronald Bailey The study produced by a major university suggests: The more scientifically literate you are, the more certain you are that climate change is either a catastrophe or a hoax, according to a new study from the Yale Cultural Cognition Project. Many science writers and policy wonks nurse the fond hope that fierce disagreement about issues like climate change is simply the result of a…
Agenda 21 promotes European socialist goals that will erode our freedoms and liberties. Most of its vague, lofty sounding phrases cause the average person’s eyes to glaze over, making it easier to sneak into our communities. The environmentalist goals include atmospheric protection, combating pollution, protecting fragile environments, and conserving biological diversity. Agenda 21 goes well beyond environmentalism. Other broad goals include combating poverty, changing consumption patterns, promoting health, and reducing private property ownership, single-family homes, private car ownership, and privately owned farms. It seeks to…
By Mike Gray Only an affluent society driven by ideologues would consider blowing forty grand on an empty gesture as a reasonable thing to do: There might be a case for buying the Volt or other hybrids, but it isn’t based on economics. It is based on bragging rights, on showing everyone how concerned you are about Mother Earth. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with any of these things, but you have to be pretty darn rich to afford them. And when it comes to…
By Mike Gray Dr. [James] Hansen engages in high-profile public advocacy with regard to global warming and energy policy, directly trading on his platform as a NASA astronomer to gain interest and attention. This outside employment and other activities relating to his work have included consulting, highly compensated speeches, six-figure “prizes”, a commercial book, advising Al Gore on his movie “An Inconvenient Truth” and, lately, advising litigants on suing states and the federal government. — Christopher Horner Horner’s intention is to get at information about…
By Mike Gray Consider the Oldbury wind turbine, installed a couple of years ago by the local authorities of Sandwell in the English Midlands at a cost of £5000 sterling plus Vicious Additional Taxation (a hideously complicated and thus easily evaded EU version of Danegeld, as we historians call it) at the then 17.5% rate (it’s now a bargain-basement 20%, so you get more in return for your missing-trader fraud than you did before). — Christopher Monckton You’d think the folks who gave us Magna…
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