Feb 9, 2012 4 Comments ›› Toro520
The Guardian - UK: The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows. The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that around 50bn tonnes of meltwater were being shed each year ...
Continue ReadingJan 30, 2012 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Daily Caller: Concerned that too many “deniers” are in the meteorology business, global warming activists this month launched a campaign to recruit local weathermen to hop aboard the alarmism bandwagon and expose those who are not fully convinced that the world is facing man-made doom. The Forecast the Facts campaign — led by 350.org, the League of ...
Continue ReadingJan 29, 2012 1 Comment ›› Angelia
(Daily Mail) — The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost ...
Continue ReadingJan 25, 2012 Comments Off Angelia
(Green Answers) — Cambodia, an exotic land filled with bright colors, city lights and ancient temples is a popular vacation spot. A remarkable country with exquisite culture holds one of the darkest secrets alive today. Very much a real and disturbing reality; we come to unfold this problem and discuss the problems of the sex ...
Continue ReadingJan 20, 2012 14 Comments ›› The Assassin
Sacramento Bee: A flash point has emerged in American science education that echoes the battle over evolution, as scientists and educators report mounting resistance to the study of man-made climate change in middle and high schools. Although scientific evidence increasingly shows that fossil fuel consumption has caused the climate to change rapidly, the issue has grown ...
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CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – A study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined that the United States funded the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations’ authority on alleged man-made global warming, with $31.1 million since 2001, nearly half of the panel’s annual budget. The GAO also found that this funding information “was not available ...
Continue ReadingDec 12, 2011 7 Comments ›› Angelia
BBC News: Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the minister of the environment has said. Peter Kent said the protocol "does not represent a way forward for Canada" and the country would face crippling fines for failing to meet its targets. The move, which is legal and was expected, makes it the first ...
Continue ReadingDec 10, 2011 9 Comments ›› Toro520
Climate Depot: DURBAN, South Africa -- “No high hopes for Durban.” “Binding treaty unlikely.” “No deal this year.” Thus ran the headlines. The profiteering UN bureaucrats here think otherwise. Their plans to establish a world government paid for by the West on the pretext of dealing with the non-problem of “global warming” are now well in ...
Continue ReadingNov 27, 2011 27 Comments ›› The Assassin
(Daily Mail) — Britain’s leading green activist research centre spent £15,000 on seminars for top BBC executives in an apparent bid to block climate change sceptics from the airwaves, a vast new cache of leaked ‘Climategate’ emails has revealed. The emails — part of a trove of more than 5,200 messages that appear to have been ...
Continue ReadingNov 23, 2011 Comments Off Pat Dollard
The Guardian: A fresh tranche of private emails exchanged between leading climate scientists throughout the last decade was released online on Tuesday. The unauthorised publication is an apparent attempt to repeat the impact of a similar release of emails on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit in late 2009. The initial email dump was apparently timed ...
Continue ReadingOct 30, 2011 Comments Off Pat Dollard
(Daily Mail) — A wildlife scientist, whose report on dead polar bears in Arctic waters became a rallying call for climate change campaigners, will face a lie detector test as part of an investigation by federal agents. Jeffrey Gleason, who co-wrote a 2006 report highlighting the danger posed to the animals by melting ice, will take ...
Continue ReadingOct 14, 2011 3 Comments ›› The Assassin
Science News: MINNEAPOLIS — By sailing to the New World, Christopher Columbus and the other explorers who followed may have set off a chain of events that cooled Europe’s climate for centuries. The European conquest of the Americas decimated the people living there, leaving large areas of cleared land untended. Trees that filled in this territory ...
Continue ReadingOct 1, 2011 4 Comments ›› Toro520
Commentary Magazine: In an era when even the most outrageous claims about global warming are treated by the mainstream media as “established science,” it was refreshing to read in the New York Times over the weekend that at least some climate scientists aren’t ready to let false claims go unchallenged. Apparently, a number of researchers are ...
Continue ReadingSep 23, 2011 6 Comments ›› Angelia
Weekly Standard: Remember how Obama recently waived new ozone regulations at the EPA because they were too costly? Well, it seems that the Obama administration is would rather make people with Asthma cough up money than let them make a surely inconsequential contribution to depleting the ozone layer: Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers will need ...
Continue ReadingSep 8, 2011 1 Comment ›› Chuck Biscuits
Rasmussen: Despite winning a Nobel Prize and an Oscar for his work in the global warming area, most voters don’t consider former Vice President Al Gore an expert on the subject. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that just 24% of voters consider Gore an expert on global warming. Fifty-nine percent ...
Continue ReadingSep 7, 2011 Comments Off The Assassin
Politico: Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer said she hopes green groups sue President Barack Obama over his decision to punt a regulation curbing smog-creating emissions until at least 2013. Boxer — whose relatively mild reaction to Obama’s surprise announcement Friday was in contrast to heated rebukes by environmental groups — said she will ...
Continue ReadingAug 30, 2011 6 Comments ›› The Assassin
CBS News: We tend to avoid outright politics here on SmartPlanet, but Bill Nye — known as “The Science Guy” after his popular television show on PBS — recently visited the Fox Business channel’s Freedom Watch to explain to host Charles Payne and his viewers the intricacies of drawing a line between Irene’s destruction and ...
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