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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… […]
How Students Can Rule This Warming World
By Andrew Bolt ~ Are you some kind of scientist? A student, maybe, with an “affinity” for global warming stuff? Are you prepared to work for nothing but a drink and a “diner” (sic)? Then you, too, can work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report as a “reviewer”? Here’s your chance to […]
Meet Iran’s Ambassador To The UN
By Claudia Rosett ~ In a sold-out event, Iran‘s ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad Khazaee, [spoke] Wednesday evening at the Asia Society in New York, starring in a “conversation” titled: “The U.S. and Iran: Road to War or Path to Peace?” With tensions high over Iran’s nuclear program, and allegations in the press that Iranian officials […]
Saving the Planet Or Protecting Power Grabs And Cash Cows?
By Craig Rucker and David Rothbard ~ Waning interest and credibility forced organizers to replace climate change with sustainable development as “the world’s most urgent problem” during the UN’s June 2012 Rio+20 Conference. However, climate alarmism is again taking center stage this week at the COP-18 confab in Doha, Qatar. The agenda remains the same: […]
Christiana’s Nightmare – For The Rest Of Us
By Craig Rucker ~ United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (“UNFCCC”) boss Christiana Figueres’ (pictured at right) dreams spell a nightmarish future for Earth’s citizens. Talk about alignment of the stars! Barack Obama based his 2008 presidential campaign on the principle of “sharing the wealth.” He won, got reelected and now has, at least […]
18 United Nations Climate Conferences To Give Us Nothing But Hot Air
By Andrew Bolt ~ Terry McCrann on the latest global warming charade in Doha, every bit the farce that was Copenhagen: Copenfloppen was ‘COP 15 (Conference of Parties) to UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)’. A year later COP 16 was held in Cancun, Mexico. The caravan of thousands of main-chancers and true-believers […]
Stop Meeting with the U.N. on Climate Change
By Amy Payne ~ Two days ago, the 18th United Nations conference on climate change wrapped up. As they did at the previous 17 conferences, developing nations demanded that the United States and other developed countries pay them for the climate’s effects. In short, the joke’s on us. And these U.N. conferences are becoming increasingly […]
United Nations Declares Contraception Access a “Human Right”
By Sarah Morris ~ In the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) recent State of World Population report, access to contraception is described as a “universal human right.” While the report has no legal force, it declares that cultural and financial barriers to accessing contraception are an infringement on women’s rights. While access to contraceptives may […]
Panicky Ban Ki-moon Gets A Climate Spanking
By Andrew Bolt ~ UN chief Ban Ki Moon is urged by 125 experts in climate-related areas to stop wild fear-mongering over global warming: On November 9 this year you told the General Assembly: “Extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal … Our challenge remains, clear and urgent: to reduce greenhouse gas […]
U.S. Carbon Tax to Shovel Dollars to U.N. Bureaucrats?
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ It appears there will be an international dining section for hogs at the carbon-tax trough. Any new tax that promises hundreds of billions of dollars per year, as a carbon tax does, would bring out the special-interest hogs, and one of the interests likely to be fed by any federal […]
Spending Billions To Buy Australia’s Labor Government A Security Council Seat
By Andrew Bolt ~ An introduction from TonyfromOz….. The Australian Labor Government is seeking to gain a Temporary seat at the United Nations Security Council. This has been a pet project of the former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and his successor Julia Gillard, who replaced Rudd after the party room coup, and she has continued […]
From Haile Selassie to Bibi Netanyahu
By Alan Caruba ~ On June 20, 1936, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia addressed the League of Nations following the annexation of his nation by Italy the previous year, after Mussolini’s army had invaded. Both nations were members of the League. It condemned the invasion and had imposed economic sanctions that were weak and ignored by […]
Our Free Speech Again In Danger At The UN
By Andrew Bolt ~ A YouTube clip is not the cause of but the pretext for the Muslim riots around the world. And now it’s also the pretext for forcing the West by force to show Islam a “respect” it does not deserve: Muslim leaders have vowed to discuss the offensive video from their U.N. […]
United Nations Internet Power Grab vs Declaration of Internet Freedom
By Darlene Casella ~ A United Nations ability to restrict the access of American Internet users and bloggers would be in contravention of free speech rights, guaranteed in the First Amendment. However, the United Nations is not bound by the US Constitution. What role will American elected officials play in an Internet power grab by […]
After Rio – What Next?
By Dr. Kelvin Kemm ~ The Rio+20 World Environmental Conference has come and gone. The “Plus 20″ comes from the fact that it took place twenty years after the first such conference, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. Between these dates, I was a delegate at the 2002 world environment conference in Johannesburg, […]
Rio+20 Is Greatest Threat to Biodiversity
By Paul Driessen and David Rothbard ~ The UN Conference on Sustainable Development is underway in Rio de Janeiro. This time, 20 years after the original 1992 Rio “Earth Summit,” thousands of politicians, bureaucrats and environmental activists are toning down references to “dangerous man-made climate change,” to avoid repeating the acrimony and failures that characterized […]
How Wisconsin and Alabama Just Helped Save the World
By James Delingpole ~ From my poolside in Puglia I was going to do you an amusing post about The Archers. I expect it would have been very funny. But sadly we shall never know. That’s because I want instead to draw your attention to two important stories from the US which, I suspect, will […]
Earth Day and the Great “Sustainability” Lie
By Alan Caruba ~ Americans are paying the hangman for the rope. It is estimated that since the origin of the global warming hoax in the late 1980s, Americans have seen $50 billion of their dollars thrown down the climate change rat hole. In a January CNSnews commentary, Elizabeth Harrington noted that “A study by the […]
International Climate Change Lawsuits?
By Steven Groves ~ If the U.S. reverses its 30-year policy and joins the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), it will certainly be exposed to climate change lawsuits in the tribunals established by the convention, as detailed in a new Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, “Accession to U.N. Convention on the Law of […]
Light Bulb Giants Hope U.N. Will Guarantee Their Market Share
By Lachlan Markay ~ A pair of major light bulb manufacturers is teaming up with the United Nations in an attempt to pressure countries into participating in “a global transition” to more energy-efficient light bulbs. The two companies are both major manufacturers of the types of bulbs that would replace incandescents under the plan. A […]
The Fraudsters Who Invent the “Science” of Climate Change
By Rael Jean Isaac Rael Jean Isaac Interviews Donna Laframboise, author of The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert, available from Amazon or, a digital edition, from IvyAvenue.com, 2011. This is a book about the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an outfit few know much about if indeed they […]
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