August 12, 2009 – 9:09 am
Here’s the United Nations Cutting greenhouse-gas emissions to slow global warming and adapting to impacts such as droughts and rising sea levels are likely to cost about $300 billion a year, the top UN climate change official said. Yvo de Boer also told Reuters on Tuesday, on the sidelines of Aug. 10-14 UN climate talks […]
August 11, 2009 – 8:53 am
Or not. Al Gore gets all “hey, we’re going to launch this big advocacy movement through my Climate Project organization where I personally train 2,600 “volunteers” to parrot talking points to get people all scared and upset and purchase lots of carbon credits and come see my speeches which make me lots of money….. what? […]
August 10, 2009 – 8:52 am
Anyone ever notice that some of the biggest supporters of anthropogenic global warming seem to be the biggest CO2 offenders? Traveling all around the globe in private jets, taking limo’s, staying at fancy hotels, having power hog homes, and, oh, let’s not forget all great vacation locations and other areas of interest they head to. Remember […]
August 6, 2009 – 9:25 am
Oh, joy, now they are figuring out how to make everyone a disciple of the Church of Gore A task force assembled by the  American Psychological Association hopes to spur more research on the role of the human mind in shaping the behaviors resulting in rising greenhouse-gas emissions as well as on traits that can […]
August 2, 2009 – 4:46 pm
Just more evidence that Charles Johnson is neither a conservative nor interested in any truth, but is basically a smear merchant (witness more Nirther, Glenn Beck hatred, and BNP posts, BNP meant to smear Robert Spencer and Pam Geller, among others.) Here’s what Kid Icarus goes with The Video Anthony Watts Doesn’t Want You to […]
July 23, 2009 – 9:36 am
If you guessed hybrid, the tequila shot is on me Quite a few big-name auto insurers have been giving hybrid owners a discount on their premium. But those deals might not last much longer; as an insurance data-analysis firm points out, the insurance industry could be losing big because of this. The surprising result: Hybrid […]
July 21, 2009 – 9:32 am
Of course, this might be redundant, since the whole AGW movement is a fraud HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has recently uncovered what is thought to be the first attempted UK tax fraud in the carbon emissions trading market. The tax dodge is a variation of the “carousel” VAT fraud. Carousel fraud, also known as […]
July 19, 2009 – 9:58 am
Over at FiveThirtyEight, True Believer Nate Silver is a wee bit upset about something John Hinderaker wrote about the cool period in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which John compared to the Year Without A Summer (1816,) which, yes, is a stretch. Nate goes to lengths to point out that the average temperature has been pretty much right […]
July 17, 2009 – 9:26 am
Wait a moment, I thought we were supposed to be planting lots and lots of trees in order to stop the spector of man made global warming so that the Earth cools down and the seas stop rising? Heck, there is a large part of the House AGW bill all about planting trees. No? Jobs […]
July 16, 2009 – 9:24 am
Well, now that the USA Today asks, yes. There is no doubt that global warming has occured. The Little Ice Age ended because of a warming planet. The seas continued their 6-8 inch rise per century, as had been going on for 7,500 years. Other planets, such as Mars and Jupiter, have seen increased temperatures. […]
