The Daily Bayonet
August 31,2010
EXCERPT:
Last year the David Suzuki Foundation issued an article that blamed declining sock-eye salmon stocks on global warming, among other things:
The Fraser River’s sockeye salmon are in trouble. And when the salmon are in trouble, we’re all in trouble.
The number of sockeye returning from the ocean to the Fraser River this year is one of the lowest in the past 50 and follows two years of dangerously low returns. In fact, we have witnessed decades of decline for diverse sockeye populations from …

Guardian.co.uk
Posted by Leo Hickman
Friday 3 September 2010
EXCERPT:
Why is human well-being improving globally when our environmental woes appear to be worsening all the time?
We hear lots of concerned chatter these days – not least, here on this site – about peak oil, peak water, deforestation, resource depletion and the like, but a popular riposte offered by those doubting such concerns is something commonly referred to as the “Environmentalist’s Paradox”.
The argument goes thus: “Why, despite resource depletion and the degradation of ecosystems, is …

Express.co.uk
Tuesday August 31,2010
By Donna Bowater
EXCERPT:

THE world’s leading climate change body has been accused of losing credibility after a damning report into its research practices.

A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there was “little evidence” for its claims about global warming.
It also said the panel had emphasised the negative impacts of climate change and made “substantive findings” based on little proof.
The review by the InterAcademy Council (IAC) was launched after the IPCC’s hugely embarrassing 2007 benchmark climate change report, …

On Line Opinion
By Mark S. Lawson – posted Wednesday, 1 September 2010
EXCERPT:
In late 2009 the UK Meteorological office solemnly warned the world that it expected 2010 to be warmer than 1998, the hottest on the instrument record. (“Climate could warm to record levels in 2010”, Met Office, December 10, 2009)
A bastion of global warming theory, the Met Office went on to say that a record warm year is “not a certainty”, as the el Niño cycle then developing in the Pacific may give out …

ICECAP
By Walter Cunningham
8/24/2010
EXCERPT:
The subjects and style of my writing attracts rebuttals. I usually resist the temptation to respond, but the article by Robert Curl, Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences Emeritus at Rice University and Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry is just too good to resist. His article is typical of academics with all those advanced degrees, and who know what is best for the rest of us – if we would just listen. In typical global warming alarmist fashion, it attacks …

Los Angeles Times

Michael Smith
August 10, 2010

EXCERPT:
“If they can put a man on the moon, they can find something to replace oil.”
This trope has been around since Mideast oil producers delivered their first ransom note to the West in the 1970s. It implies that the fuel of the future is perfectly ordinary stuff — like the ingredients of Coca Cola — and we could have it tomorrow if not for shadowy corporate interests that jealously guard the formula.
Such folk wisdom has no currency among those who actually …

Warning Signs
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
by Alan Caruba
EXCERPT:
As World War Two wound down, in 1945 Italian partisans found Benito Mussolini and his girlfriend trying to flee to Switzerland. They shot both of them and then hung them by their heels in the Piazza Loreto in Milan. He had led the National Fascist Party and had been the 40th prime minister from 1922 until being deposed, jailed, and rescued by his pal Adolf Hitler.
I was reminded of this when I read a list of 1970 …

Townhall.com
Paul Driessen
EXCERPT:
If 10% ethanol in gasoline is good, 15% (E15) will be even better. At least for some folks.
We’re certainly heading in that direction – thanks to animosity toward oil, natural gas and coal, fear-mongering about global warming, and superlative lobbying for “alternative,” “affordable,” “eco-friendly” biofuels. Whether the trend continues, and what unintended consequences will be unleashed, will depend on Corn Belt versus consumer politics and whether more people recognize the downsides of ethanol.
Federal laws currently require that fuel suppliers blend more and more …

Calgary Sun
Slandering the Alberta oilsands is a very profitable business for Greenpeace
By EZRA LEVANT, QMI Agency
Last Updated: August 8, 2010 12:00am
EXCERPT:
They must have had a good laugh over at Greenpeace’s headquarters in Amsterdam when they heard about the Alberta government’s latest plan to defend the oilsands.
Last week, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach announced a $268,000 advertising campaign to counter global anti-oilsands propaganda.
Just to put that in perspective, the government of Alberta will reap more than $7 billion in energy taxes this year.
So Stelmach is spending 0.0038% …

ICECAP
By Will Happer
August 5,2010
EXCERPT:

The Montreal Protocol to ban freons was the warm-up exercise for the IPCC.  Many current IPCC players gained fame then by stampeding the US Congress into supporting the Montreal Protocol. They learned to use dramatized, phony scientific claims like “ozone holes over Kennebunkport” (President Bush Sr’s seaside residence in New England). The ozone crusade also had business opportunities for firms like Dupont to market proprietary “ozone-friendly” refrigerants at much better prices than the conventional (and more easily used) freons that …

Hoover Institution STANFORD UNIVERSITY
by John Rosenthal
2010
EXCERPT:
Millions of euros come with an agenda
The leaking of the East Anglia “Climategate” e-mails and data last November shattered the appearance of a scientific consensus on supposed “man-made global warming” and provided a disturbing insight into the corruption of the scientific process as it relates to the “man-made global warming” hypothesis. The spectacle of scientists stonewalling freedom of information requests, destroying records, hiding unwelcome results, colluding to keep dissenting viewpoints out of scholarly journals, and even suppressing their …

Canada Free Press
By Dr. Tim Ball
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
EXCERPT:
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. Erasmus (1466 – 1536)
Control of the science and content of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports was planned from before it was officially formed in 1988. Exposure of manipulation to achieve desired results also began early.
Benjamin Santer graduated from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), where Tom Wigley supervised his PhD. He returned to the US working at the government’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He was appointed …

Warning Signs
July 23,2010
By Alan Caruba
EXCERPT:
On July 11, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) announced that it had launched “a national advertising campaign as part of a broader effort to showcase the dedication and personal histories of scientists studying climate change.”
I know quite a few climatologists and meteorologists and the ones I know have been courageously refuting the global warming fraud for years, even decades. Beyond them, thousands of comparable scientists have signed petitions and statements to the effect that global warming …

Climate Depot
Monday, July 26, 2010
By Marc Morano
EXCERPT:
Physicist Dr. Denis Rancourt, a former professor and environmental science researcher at the University of Ottawa, has officially bailed out of the man-made global warming movement.
In a hard-hitting and exclusive new exclusive video just released by Climate Depot, Dr. Rancourt declares that the entire man-made global warming movement is nothing more than a “corrupt social phenomenon.” “It is as much psychological and social phenomenon as anything else,” Rancourt, who has published peer-reviewed research, explained in a June …

Energy Tribune
Posted on Jul. 15, 2010
By Harry Wertheimer, ET guest columnist and Robert Bryce, ET managing editor
EXCERPT:
An increase in the amount of ethanol in your gasoline won’t hurt your lawnmower…if it’s a push-reel. Otherwise be prepared for big repair bills.
While that sounds alarmist, the threat is real. This fall, the Obama administration will, through the EPA, likely approve a change in federal regulations that will allow gasoline retailers to increase the “blend rate.”
The blend rate refers to the federal rule that limits …

The American
By Jay Richards Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Anyone who has studied the history of science knows that scientists are not immune to the non-rational dynamics of the herd.
EXCERPT:
A December 18 Washington Post poll, released on the final day of the ill-fated Copenhagen climate summit, reported “four in ten Americans now saying that they place little or no trust in what scientists have to say about the environment.” Nor is the poll an outlier. Several recent polls have found “climate change” skepticism rising faster …

Telegraph.co.uk
By Christopher Booker
Published: 5:44PM GMT 23 Jan 2010
EXCERPT:
I can report a further dramatic twist to what has inevitably been dubbed “Glaciergate” – the international row surrounding the revelation that the latest report on global warming by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) contained a wildly alarmist, unfounded claim about the melting of Himalayan glaciers. Last week, the IPCC, led by its increasingly controversial chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, was forced to issue an unprecedented admission: the statement in its 2007 report that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by …

There is No Frakking “Scientific Consensus” on Global Warming
1-21-2010
EXCERPT:
In Dec. 2009 Time magazine ran an article titled “The Tragedy of the Himalayas.” The article is built around Syed Iqbal Hasnain – the glacier researcher now at the center of a controversy over how quickly the Himalayan glaciers are melting.
BACKGROUND
While the glacier story has been percolating for some time, four days ago a report in the Times of London afforded it prominent media coverage. The Times says that a claim in the 2007 United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) …

Climate Depot
Thursday, November 26, 2009
By Marc Morano
EXCERPT:
UK astrophysicist Piers Corbyn, of the long range solar forecast group Weather Action, declared that the ClimateGate revelations have rendered man-made global warming fears “false.”
“The case is blown to smithereens and this whole theory should be destroyed and discarded and Copenhagen conference should be closed,” Corbyn said in a contentious on air television exchange with an environmental activist with Russia’s WWF. The live TV debate with Corbyn appeared on Moscow’s RT TV on November 25, 2009. The RT TV’s segment was titled “Heating Cheating.” See …

The Wall Street Journal

September 23, 2009, 4:55 PM ET

By Stephen Power
EXCERPT:
How’s this for awkward timing? Even as President Obama tries to persuade other countries gathered at the U.N. climate confab and upcoming G-20 meeting that the U.S. will take action on climate change, senators from both parties are moving to limit what his administration can do to fight climate change.
At issue are two amendments to a huge government spending bill nearing a vote in the Senate that would pare the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate various industries’ greenhouse-gas emissions.
One …

JoNova
September 26,2009
EXCERPT:
The price for speaking out against global warming is exile from your peers, even if you are at the top of your field.
What follows is an example of a scientific group that not only stopped a leading researcher from attending a meeting, but then—without discussing the evidence—applauds the IPCC and recommends urgent policies to reduce greenhouse gases. What has science been reduced to if bear biologists feel they can effectively issue ad hoc recommendations on worldwide energy use?  How low have standards sunk if informed opinion is censored, while …

CNN.com
updated 2:14 p.m. EDT, Tue September 22, 2009
EXCERPT:
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) — President Obama joined other world leaders Tuesday in calling for immediate and substantive steps to combat climate change, saying failure to act now would bring “irreversible catastrophe.”
Speaking to a special summit on climate change at the United Nations, Obama pledged the full commitment of the United States to a global response after what he called years of responding too slowly to the magnitude of the challenge.
However, Obama’s speech lacked specific details on cutting greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate …

Climate Depot
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Marc Morano
EXCERPT:
WaPo’s Andrew Freedman Ducks TV Debate with Climate Depot’s Morano – Demands Separate Taping
[Climate Depot’s Editor’s Note: The Washington Post’s Andrew Freedman has his hands full. After declaring on September 1, 2009, that “increasing climate change skepticism among the public is troubling” because “it flies in the face of most of the scientific evidence,” Freedman now faces a fellow Washington Post “Capital Weather Gang” member — Meteorologist Matt Rogers – who is openly rebelling from Freedman’s stated climate views. Just days after Freedman’s public feud …

The Reference Frame
Sunday, September 06, 2009
EXCERPT:
In his previous life, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber used to be a fairly good theoretical physicist. For example, he would solve the Schrödinger equation with an almost periodic potential in 1983. He has spent a year or so as a postdoc at KITP in Santa Barbara (1981-82).
But the times have changed. For a couple of years, he has been the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the main German government’s climate protection adviser. What he has just said for Spiegel, in
Industrialized …

Jennifer Marohasy
September 6th, 2009
EXCERPT:
HOLLYWOOD loves a movie full of dire predictions about the end of the Earth.   Of course global warming has been all the rage with Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth winning an Oscar.  Although I did prefer The Day After Tomorrow in which a climatologist, played by Dennis Quad, tried to save his son in New York from an ice age.
There is a new movie due for release on October 18, Not Evil Just Wrong, which explores society’s interest in Armageddon-type scenarios with a particular focus on the cost, …

Townhall.com
Saturday, September 05, 2009
by Paul Driessen
EXCERPT:
“Few challenges facing America – and the world – are more urgent than combating climate change,” President Obama has asserted. “We will make it clear that America is ready to lead.”
The President and Al Gore are certainly ready to lead. But how many will follow?
Even in America, and certainly on the world stage, the two increasingly look like Don Quixote and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. As they tilt for windmills, and against a “monstrous giant of infamous repute” – climate disasters conjured up by …

Townhall.com
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
by Fiona Kobusingye
EXCERPT:
Life in Africa is often nasty, impoverished and short. AIDS kills 2.2 million Africans every year according to WHO (World Health Organization) reports. Lung infections cause 1.4 million deaths, malaria 1 million more, intestinal diseases 700,000. Diseases that could be prevented with simple vaccines kill an additional 600,000 annually, while war, malnutrition and life in filthy slums send countless more parents and children to early graves.
And yet, day after day, Africans are told the biggest threat we face is – global warming.
Conferences, news stories, television …

Mail Online
By Richard Littlejohn
Last updated at 8:32 AM on 04th September 2009
EXCERPT:

The preposterous figure of Two Jags has apparently been reincarnated as something called the Council of Europe’s ‘rapporteur’ on climate change. That’s a new one on me. Wasn’t the dwarf in Time Bandits called Rapporteur?
I’ve no idea what a rapporteur does, but I would imagine it involves a lot of first-class air travel, five-star hotels and lobster suppers. There’s probably a bird thrown in, too.
Two Jags is flying to China this week to deliver a lecture on …

Warning Signs
Sunday, August 16, 2009
By Alan Caruba
EXCERPT:
I have long believed that the environmental movement, particularly in America, is quite literally an internal enemy, no less insidious than the efforts of the former Soviet Union to infiltrate spies and agents of influence into our government to affect policy.
I know that sounds harsh, but one needs only look at Great Britain where environmentalism has turned that once great nation into a virtual police state where every bizarre and insane environmental policy is culminating in a nation that will soon be experiencing blackouts …

Talking About The Weather
by Harold Ambler on August 30, 2009
EXCERPT:
As most of my readers know, I posted a critique of Gavin Schmidt’s book, Climate Change: Picturing the Science, not quite three months ago. Dr. Schmidt has responded in the last few days with the following statement:

The point of a photo is always the context in which it’s seen. Lake Powell is a long way below it’s 1990’s peak, and that is due to a combination of reductions in rainfall upstream and additional demands on it’s water downstream. The …

Climate Realist
Friday, August 28th 2009
Hans Schreuder
EXCERPT:
Before you guys push the final button to self-destruct your country over nothing more than a
scientific hoax, try to stop, read and then think, think deeply, very deeply, about what I am sending
you here. Print it out and distribute as widely as you can. Save yourselves and your country billions
of dollars and millions of jobs.

Every single word of what is written here is truth. Every single word on your side of the
line is based on a hoax.
Hans Schreuder
Darsham, UK

CARBON DIOXIDE and CLIMATE CHANGE – SOME …

FOXNews
Friday, August 28, 2009
EXCERPT:
Don’t exhale.
That advice may need heeding if the Environmental Protection Agency declares carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases dangerous pollutants, a move — expected in the next couple weeks — that would require the federal government to impose new rules limiting emissions.
But some skeptics say regulating carbon dioxide, a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, may be a difficult task, especially since people emit carbon dioxide with every breath.
“The …