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Congressional Budget Office Looks At A Carbon Tax
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its report on the impact of a carbon tax. (Disclaimer: I provided comments to the CBO on a draft of the report, earlier this year.) The economic parts were pretty sensible and conclude that (be sure you are sitting down)—there are no free […]
More Climate Alarmism From Australia’s ABC TV’s Lateline
By Andrew Bolt ~ The ABC mentioned in the title is the Australian National Broadcaster, the ABC, (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) It has no relationship whatsoever with the ABC Network in the U.S. The program is Lateline, the late night Current Affairs program. Last night the program featured an interview with the American Global Warming commentator […]
Mother Nature’s Message To Mankind
By Alan Caruba ~ After a tornado tore through Moore, Oklahoma in 1999, people returned and rebuilt their homes and other structures destroyed by it. Many of the homes, instead of including a basement, were rebuilt on concrete slabs that offer no protection when high winds tear them loose. The elementary school was believed to […]
Oklahoma Tornado Strikes And Climate Change Vultures Gather
By Andrew Bolt ~ This is despicable, that while rescue operations are still going on, some people are using this tragedy to push their Climate Change/Global Warming agenda…..TonyfromOz. Rescuers are still digging children out of a collapsed school, but warmists are already trying to turn the Oklohama disaster into a poster for the climate change/global […]
BBC Admits To A “Standstill” In Global Warming. Bad Luck For Fish
By Andrew Bolt ~ The BBC concedes what The Age still can’t: Since 1998, there has been an unexplained “standstill” in the heating of the Earth’s atmosphere. UPDATE More unexpected news. Global warming could actually mean fish breed better, says a new paper in Global Change Biology: Increased CO2 stimulates reproduction in a coral reef […]
Where Are Gore’s Hurricanes?
By Andrew Bolt ~ Remember how cynically Al Gore exploited Hurricane Katrina to flog his eco-propaganda, An Inconvenient Truth? Now I’m going to show you, recently released, the actual ocean temperature. Of course when the oceans get warmer, that causes stronger storms. We have seen in the last couple of years, a lot of big […]
Collapse Of Bee Colonies Is Latest Target For Anti-Pesticide Groups
By Paul Driessen ~ Beekeeping is big business, and everyone loves honey and foods made possible by pollination. But “colony collapse disorder” threatens bees and crop pollination in many areas. CCD and other bee die-offs are nothing new. What we now call colony collapse was first reported in 1869, and many outbreaks since then have […]
Climate Change Australia – Robyn “100 metres” Williams Comes Up 99.3 Metres Short
By Andrew Bolt ~ When will (Australian) ABC science presenter Robyn “100 metres” Williams apologise for this scaremongering in 2007, at the height of the global warming scare: Andrew Bolt: I’m telling you, there’s a lot of fear out there. So what I do is, when I see an outlandish claim being made…so Tim Flannery […]
How The Greens Pick Your Pocket
By Alan Caruba ~ The famed Boston Tea Party was a protest against “taxation without representation”, but our pockets are picked every day by a plethora of taxes of which most Americans are not even aware. We get robbed when the federal government thwarts exploration and extraction of energy resources that would greatly reduce those […]
Recent Energy And Environmental News – May 13, 2013
By John Droz, Jr. ~ A fascinating technical study at Phys.org concludes that turbines have adverse consequences to grid stability. For example: “wind turbines do not only transfer wind intermittency to the grid, but they also amplify it… The data also shows that wind power intermittency does not only affect the output of individual turbines, […]
Australia’s Climate Change Minister Greg Combet Sweats In Hot Climate, Abusing Everyone But Himself
By Andrew Bolt ~ The Climate Change Minister sounds under pressure: Senior cabinet minister Greg Combet has attacked some of his Labor Party colleagues as ‘’whingers’’ in an angry and expletive-laden speech to supporters and donors… At a party fund-raising dinner last Monday, Mr Combet delivered a withering critique of the doomsayers in his own […]
Australia’s Climate Change Minister Greg Combet Announces The Death Of The Global Warming Scare
By Andrew Bolt ~ I watched the global warming scare this week drowning in a pool of red ink, right on my television screen. I don’t just mean Climate Change Minister Greg Combet being forced yesterday to eat his mendacious words, having blown a gigantic hole in the Budget . First there was Monday night’s […]
Keystone XL And Natural Gas Provide Energy Trade Opportunities
By Nicolas Loris ~ In June 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama said, “If we continue to let our trade policy be dictated by special interests, then American workers will continue to be undermined, and public support for robust trade will continue to erode.” That’s exactly what’s happening with respect to energy trade. Special interests want […]
Waiting For All That Global Warming
By Andrew Bolt ~ Lord Monckton plans to send around a monthly graph of global temperature, contrasting what the warmist models predicted with what actually happened: A monthly benchmark graph, circulated widely to the news media, will help to dispel the costly notion that the world continues to warm at a rapid and dangerous rate… […]
U.S. Wonders Where The Warming Went
By Andrew Bolt ~ The US isn’t feeling the global warming that was supposedly out of control: At the two-thirds mark for meteorological spring, 2013 was the second coldest spring on record – slightly warmer than 1975. Larry Bell in Forbes: Even Western Europe, the cradle of carbon-caused climate craziness and cap-and-trade corruption, is feeling […]
Tier 3 Rules Are Unnecessary, Costly
And designed solely to provide EPA with more jobs and more power over people’s lives. By Paul Driessen ~ 1,920 and counting! That’s how many regulations President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has promulgated since his 2009 inauguration. Many, if not most, will bring few health or environmental benefits – but will impose high economic and […]
Still Waiting For Global Warming
By Andrew Bolt ~ The great global warming pause continues: When looking at this chart, what is important is noticing the values in degrees at the left of the chart on the YAxis, that vertical axis. Note that here they are shown in TENTHS of a degree Celsius. So when you look at the blue […]
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- American Minute for May 24thWilliam Lloyd Garrison published the Boston anti-slavery paper "Liberator" and founded the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. Suffering hundreds of death threats for his politically incorrect stand on the value of human life, William Lloyd Garrison died MAY 24, 1879. He wrote: "I desire to thank God, that he enables me to disregard 't […]
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