Category Archives: Global warming

Hayward details the climate alarmists’ woes

Written on April 24, 2013 at 7:13 am, by

Steven Hayward shares with Weekly Standard readers some inconvenient facts for those who spout alarmist lines in the climate science debate. After two decades of steady and substantial global temperature increase from 1980 to 1998, the pause in warming is causing a crisis for the climate crusade. It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. TheContinue Reading

Bans on top of bans

Written on January 23, 2013 at 4:08 pm, by

Did you happen to catch the news over the weekend that 140 countries have agreed to sign a UN mercury pollution reduction treaty? Mercury is legitimately nasty stuff, and mercury poisoning can cause all sorts of brain, sensory, and kidney problems.  You know the phrase “mad as a hatter” that we still sometimes use?  Well,Continue Reading

What you haven’t heard about global warming

Written on January 16, 2013 at 3:56 pm, by

Roy Cordato’s environment newsletter, out today, offers some useful information about the real state of global warming that you probably won’t read anywhere else.  The picture isn’t quite what the media would have you believe.  You need to see this!

Climate alarmist vs. skeptic on the BBC — You decide

Written on December 5, 2012 at 7:06 am, by

Michael “Hockey stick” Mann and Marc Moran0 recently made a joint BBC appearance to discuss the global warming debate, climategate, and other related matters. Morano — the skeptic — has posted the entire transcript of the segment online. You can determine for yourself who makes the better case about the (pardon the pun) hot topicContinue Reading

Superstorm Sandy helps ramp up warming wackiness

Written on November 26, 2012 at 7:16 am, by

The latest National Review offers this blurb about the political impact of the recent storm that battered New York and New Jersey: The case for being worried about climate change, formerly known as global warming, begins with the unobjectionable and escalates to the absurd. The least plausible claim is that specific events, such as theContinue Reading

More Green Car Woes

Written on October 17, 2012 at 11:14 am, by

It’s not every day that I get to blog about something I read in Car and Driver, but there’s a great article today about A123, a major manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles.  They’ve filed for bankruptcy after 14 straight quarters of losses, and no one’s quite sure what impact that’s goingContinue Reading

New at CJO: Noted climate scientist Pat Michaels debunks gloom-and-doom projections for N.C. sea levels

Written on October 2, 2012 at 11:05 am, by

Carolina Journal Online highlights research from the Cato Institute’s Patrick Michaels, longtime Virginia state climatologist, that debunks wild claims about rising North Carolina sea levels.

O’Rourke on climate indoctrination

Written on September 14, 2012 at 7:37 am, by

There’s no link yet, so you’ll have to trust your faithful correspondent when he tells you that P.J. O’Rourke brings his A-game to a Forbes Life essay describing a less-than-stellar summer trip to Rome. While the entire piece is interesting, the following should elicit a chuckle from anyone worried about either climate science indoctrination orContinue Reading