May 14, 2008

The United States Department of the Interior today listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), due to the melting of Arctic sea ice that is the bears’ habitat. The announcement of the listing was made by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne.
In making the announcement, Kempthorne said he wishes to [...]

May 10, 2008

A few things for the high priests of environmental paganism to ponder when they next forgather to worship their own egos.
Barton Bennett sent me a link for Dr. Walter Williams’s column reminding us how far from the truth is the junk science that flourishes like maggots in today’s cesspool of educational ignorance.
So far [...]

April 19, 2008

A group of scientists have challenged the IPCC to admit that there is no evidence that human activity drives climate change. Specifically, they sent a letter this month to the Chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change asking those associated with the panel to:

retract support from the current IPCC position and admit that [...]

April 18, 2008

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil, said on Wednesday that not continuing to use biofuels would be a “crime against humanity.”
“Don’t tell me, for the love of God, that food is expensive because of biodiesel,” said Lula, when talking to reporters.
Lula also stated that he was ready for a debate on biofuels. [...]

March 14, 2008

Jan Burr raises the important point that governments should give attention, not only to current effects of global warming, but also to the near certainty of a severe cooling period within the coming decade.
In his comment regarding Global Warming: A Moderate Voice, Mr. Burr notes that global cooling will cause as much, or more, suffering [...]

March 12, 2008

The lamestream media told you:

Scientists at UCLA have announced creating a spongelike crystal that can absorb carbon dioxide, the human-produced gas the creates global warming. The crystals, “could capture CO2 from coal-fired power plants, factories and other industrial sources,” according to a quote from a scientist in unidentified “wire service” reports.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however [...]

March 10, 2008

By Alan Caruba
“The tripling of oil prices since the summer of 2003 has unleashed forces that within the next two or three years will bring oil prices tumbling back down to below $50 a barrel.” So said John Cassidy, writing about “The Coming Oil Crash” in the January issue of Conde Nast Portfolio. Yes, [...]

March 7, 2008

Paul Watson of the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd says that he was shot by Japanese sailors while protesting against their hunting practices in the Antarctic. Watson, captain of the Sea Shepherd ship the Steve Irwin, stated that his crew had been throwing stink bombs at the sailors, but that they responded with gunfire and flash [...]

March 5, 2008

United States federal officials flushed billion of gallons of water into the Grand Canyon on Wednesday, in an experimental effort to distribute sediment throughout the river and restore the ecosystem to a more natural state.
The water was released from two pipes in the controversial Glen Canyon Dam, which blocks the Colorado River and creates the [...]

By Alan Caruba
For the last two days, March 2-4, I and about five hundred other people attended the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, including some of the world’s leading authorities on climatology, meteorology, economics, energy, and other fields of knowledge.
It was an extraordinary event, held in New York and sponsored by the Heartland [...]