Ever wonder about the final straw that will bring down western civilization? A British judge may have created it. On November 3rd, Mr Justice Michael Burton, the same judge that allowed continued showing of An Inconvenient Truth to children in British schools even while recognizing it to be a dishonest political propaganda film decided...
As the Senate considers the fate of the cap-and-trade bill, we should consider what it means for more carbon dioxide to be added to the atmosphere, something the bill intends to prevent. Carbon dioxide is first and foremost a plant food. In fact, plants take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and use the energy...
Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is justified via argument from authority: a consensus of “experts†holds that humans are responsible for the increase in the Earth’s average temperature during the twentieth century. I was once a leader in forming a scientific consensus. In the late 1970s, most cosmologists believed the universe could not accelerate. Our...
The chief British Climate Research Unit (CRU) at Hadley has begun to eliminate the daily temperature records from its public websites. Yes  the daily high in London is now a state secret! Actually, this disappearance of temperature records has been going on for some time  not only in Britain, but also in...
S. Fred Singer, a climate physicist, and Dennis T. Avery, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, have written the definitive book about global warming. They carefully explain the complexities and facts so the average person can understand. It is true the earth goes through warming phases, but they are cyclical and not manmade....
Last week on Fox News, Glenn Beck interviewed PETA spokesman Matt Prescott about a UN Report calling out the meat industry as the #1 cause of Global Warming. According to Prescott, the report issued by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “found that the meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than...
173 people have been killed in fires raging through Australia, making this the deadliest bushfire in Australian history. Nearly 815,447 acres (330,000 hectares) have been burned and 750 homes have been burned to the ground. In 1983, 75 people were killed on what was dubbed the Ash Wednesday fires. 71 people were killed in...
Yesterday, there was an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 in Indonesia’s Banda Sea, and two quakes of similar strength in the Pacific Ocean. As of 9 am today, no damage has been reported. These are the strongest earthquakes since Monday. The Indonesian earthquake was in the sparse island group of Maluku, north of Australia, at...
Earth and Environmental Scientist Peter Doran recently surveyed 3,146 scientists in an effort to clarify the “scientific consensus” on global warming. Professor Doran has previously complained that his study revealing cooling in the Antarctic had been misinterpreted, causing confusion in the global warming debate. Here we go again. Although I have not yet found...
Severe flooding in the island nation of Fiji have killed eight people and have forced thousands to evacuate the area. The flooding was mainly in the western part of the country’s main island, Viti Levu, where most of the resorts hosting international travelers are located. Fiji’s National Disaster Office has advised all tourists still...
Heavy rain, combined with melting snow from a previous storm, have caused the US state of Washington to issue the largest evacuation order in the history of the state. Over 30,000 people living along the Puyallup River were informed on Wednesday night to leave their homes due to the flooding, combined with threats such...
South Australia’s Department of Environment and Heritage has announced that the Simpson Desert in Central Australia will close annually from December 15 through to March 1. The department says a risk assessment showed temperatures of 40 to 50ºC (104 to 122ºF were dangerous for people crossing the desert. The closure will affect the Simpson...
According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), an earthquake with magnitude of 6.5 has struck China. Xinhua, one of China’s main news agencies, reports the quake at a magnitude of 6.3. According to the USGS, the quake was centered 55 kilometers (35 miles) East, Southeast of Da Qaidam, Qinghai province and was reported...
Hurricane Paloma, which the U.S. National Hurricane Center yesterday labeled as “extremely dangerous”, has recently hit Cuba . In preparation of this, at 1500 UTC yesterday, the Cuban provinces of Granma and Holguin were issued with a Hurricane warning by the country’s government. Due to updated forecasts, it has also removed the waning for...
Two large wildfires burn uncontrolled north of Los Angeles, California. The blazes, known as the Marek fires, have burned over 3700 acres and caused the evacuation of more than 1200 people. Furthermore, at least 30 mobile homes were destroyed. One confirmed fatality has been reported and described as an unidentified transient who had been...
George W. Bush, the President of the United States, has said that he will not attend the 2008 Republican National Convention as a result of Hurricane Gustav. During a statement made to the press, Bush told reporters: “In light of these events, I will not be going to Minnesota for the Republican National Convention,”....
Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana has ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city ahead of Hurricane Gustav. Nagin states that residents “need to be scared” in what he calls “the mother of all storms”. Residents are to be out of the city by Sunday evening. Despite the announcement, tens of thousands...
Hurricane Gustav is predicted to make landfall on the Gulf Coast, having already caused damage in the Carribean. The storm may be raised to Category 5 according to some sources. At 5:00 p.m. (eastern time) on Saturday, the National Hurricane Center stated that Gustav had sustained winds at least 150 miles per hour and...
Snakes and alligators have been forced out onto Florida streets in the United States as Tropical Storm Fay continues to flood the state, breaking the region’s two-year drought. The storm has already left over two feet of rain along Florida’s central Atlantic coast with more still to come. About 60,000 homes have lost power...
As of 11:00 am EDT, the Category 1 hurricane is located in the mid-Atlantic ocean, about 775 miles east of the Leeward Islands, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. It has maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour, with higher gusts, and it is moving west-northwest at 15 miles per...
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