September 18, 2015 – 10:00 am
Well, bless his heart (US News) Taking aim at his potential political opponents, Vice President Joe Biden railed Wednesday against Republicans who “deny climate change” and want to shut down the federal government over funding for Planned Parenthood, and pleaded with them to “just get out of the way.” Biden came to California, a national […]
September 16, 2015 – 8:57 pm
A big one (AP) A powerful magnitude-8.3 earthquake hit off Chile’s northern coast Wednesday night, causing buildings to sway in Santiago and other cities and sending people running into the streets. At least three aftershocks above magnitude-6 and other strong shakes rattled the region as tsunami alarms sounded in the port of Valparaiso in the […]
September 16, 2015 – 11:18 am
Ever wonder what a Warmist is really thinking? Here’s The Atlantic’s Robinson Meyer Not Doomed Yet: A New Newsletter About Climate Change I remember the first time I learned about climate change. I was sitting at a fancy restaurant with my parents, reading a science magazine under the table. (I think it was Kids Discover, […]
September 15, 2015 – 10:02 am
Police cars aren’t cheap. They have big engines and strong body reinforcements, made to take abuse normal models cannot take. The LAPD is bringing new meaning to “green police” (Mashable) Â A Tesla Model S is about as far from a Ford Crown Victoria as you can imagine, but the former might just replace the latter […]
September 7, 2015 – 10:30 am
I’ve mentioned it time and time again: whenever this is some sort of big holiday, Warmists must link the two. I was initially disappointed that there really weren’t any unhinged Cult of Climastrology missives prior to Labor Day. How dare they break my notion of linkage! Ah, but today is the day. Let’s start here […]
September 4, 2015 – 6:59 am
Is nothing safe anymore? (USA Today) While Burning Man is the world’s largest Leave No Trace event, the weeklong festival drawing 70,000 people to the Nevada desert has a major, albeit dispersed, environmental impact. What they mean is “climate change”, not the environment. From the constant hum of generators powering air conditioning inside luxury RVs […]
August 30, 2015 – 4:45 pm
Let’s start off with noting that when people fail to live by the rules they want Everyone Else to live be, that’s a moral failure. An inexcusable one Failing to act on climate change is an inexcusable moral failure The responses of coal country business leaders and politicians to the Clean Power Plan recently announced […]
August 28, 2015 – 4:42 pm
It’s so utterly horrible. Nice weather leads to people going outside and hurting themselves while playing. And no one ever hurt themselves outside before CO2 hit 350ppm, you know (Climate Progress) People of all ages — not just the elderly — are more at risk of death and emergency room visits as the earth warms, […]
August 28, 2015 – 7:08 am
They’re all forgetting the numerous, and changing, prognostications immediately following Hurricane Katrina. Witness Time Magazine’s Justin Worland Why Climate Change Could Make Hurricane Impact Worse Hurricane Katrina surprised disaster preparedness authorities when it made landfall 10 years ago, leveling entire communities and killing more than 1,800 people. The storm caused more than $100 billion in […]
August 23, 2015 – 7:38 pm
Extreme hyperbole? Check. Here’s hyper-alarmist John D. Sutter at CNN, which used to be interested in actual news, not fiction 100 days to save the world … The 1997 Kyoto Protocol, for instance, was signed but never ratified by the United States, and even global sweetheart Canada pulled out and failed to meet its pollution targets. More recently, […]