Category Archives: Global Warming

“The Courage To Do Nothing”

May 10, 2010 – 10:16 pm

Last week The Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing on “The Foundation of Climate Science”. The loyal opposition was represented by Lord Christopher Monckton, who made a persuasive technical case (see here) and gave a splendid performance. Here’s a glimpse: From Lord Monckton’s testimony: Warming at the very much reduced [...]

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He’s Getting Cross

February 28, 2010 – 6:52 pm

As you all know, the global-warming community has been under a great deal of pressure lately. Its Pontifex Maximus, Albert A. Gore, published a lengthy riposte in the Times today. You can read it here. It is about what you would expect: a reminder that even if the scientific claims of the global-warming industry are [...]

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Cui Bono?

December 14, 2009 – 11:13 pm

More muckraking from James Delingpole. Here.

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Wow, What A Crisis! It Slices, It Dices…

December 11, 2009 – 1:10 pm

Writing in today’s Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer blows the whistle on an end run by the Executive Branch intended to bring a huge swath of US private-sector activity under the direct control of the EPA, in yet another example of fantastic utility of the Global Warming “crisis” as a justification for statist and socialist power-grabs [...]

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Cold Hard Facts

December 10, 2009 – 10:24 pm

As I mentioned in a previous post, there are three central assertions being made by global-warming activists, each of which is contentious in its own right. The first — let’s call it W — is that the Earth is currently warming. The second — we’ll call this one A — is that W is caused [...]

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Follow The Green

December 9, 2009 – 12:53 am

I’ve played the Devil’s advocate for a while now on the topic of Global Warmism, but I want to take a moment to remind readers that my attitude toward its central claims — namely a) that the Earth is warming; b) that the primary cause is an anthropogenic increase in CO2, and c) that the [...]

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