Written by Alan Caruba, Warning Signs | 09 March 2010

Wars come and go, cities are destroyed and rebuilt, monuments are erected, and life goes on. This is the traditional view of war, but right now the world is engaged in the latest battle of a “climate war” that has been going on since the 1970s when the Club of Rome concluded in a report titled, “The real enemy then, is humanity itself”, that the world’s population had to be reduced.

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Written by Alan Caruba, Warning Signs | 08 March 2010

One of the keystones of the Obama administration’s energy policies has been a very expensive emphasis on “clean energy”, sometimes called “renewable energy”, allocating billions to the wind and solar energy producers. Like much of the “stimulus” bill that money is a waste.

The wind power trade group, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has been pouring big bucks into a public relations effort to convince Americans that wind is the energy source of the future and that acres of wind turbines should be installed to replace the proven sources, primarily coal-fired, natural gas, and nuclear plants currently providing more than 80% of the nation’s electricity needs.

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Written by Steven F. Hayward, Weekly Standard | 06 March 2010

Rajendra Pachauri

It is increasingly clear that the leak of the internal emails and documents of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in November has done for the climate change debate what the Pentagon Papers did for the Vietnam war debate 40 years ago—changed the narrative decisively. Additional revelations of unethical behavior, errors, and serial exaggeration in climate science are rolling out on an almost daily basis, and there is good reason to expect more.

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Written by Patrick Keeney, National Post | 05 March 2010

One of my favourite book covers depicts a doctor staring at us in earnest from a 1950s television set. His visage and dress convey a man of sober-minded science. His speech-balloon says, “Trust us, we’re experts,” which is the book’s title. In his right hand he holds a lit cigarette.

The book, by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, documents the way in which industry purchases the services of so-called independent “experts,” who promote a message that is profitable to them, while simultaneously discrediting the opposition. Inconvenient data is suppressed and manipulated. Working backwards, paid-up scientists arrive at the sought-after conclusions. The character, motivations and bona fides of opponents are called into question, as the virtues and credentials of those who are on-side are exaggerated.

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Written by Michael Fumento, Forbes | 05 March 2010

Some global warming skeptics have been using the remarkably cold winter and record snowfalls to attack the idea of global warming. Believers are crying foul. "You're confusing weather with climate!" they insist.

And they're right. But they invented the game a long time ago and have been deftly playing it ever since.

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Written by The Daily Bayonet | 04 March 2010

The green movement is fracturing under the continued pressure of the truth about global warming, Al Gore wrote for the NYT and is widely ridiculed and British Columbia proves that green taxes can’t stop global warming.  Also, in a Daily Bayonet exclusive, buy your Axis of Upheaval offsets, this week only.

And there’s an all-Canadian hottie, because Canada rocked the Olympics my friends.

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Written by Prof David Colquhoun, Guardian | 04 March 2010

Can you trust this ice core sample?

I'm not a climate scientist, but I am concerned about the reputation of science and scientists. One motive for going into science for me was that it is one of the few jobs where you get rewarded for telling the truth.

So it was painful to watch the trust of the public in science, already dented, taking another crushing blow when the emails stolen from the University of East Anglia were revealed. We'll probably never know exactly what the emails meant, but we can say that the matter was handled very badly indeed. Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit, should have been immediately on every TV station, explaining what he meant. By going to ground, and by denying Freedom of Information Act requests, the university gave the impression of guilt, quite regardless of whether there is really anything to hide. That brings the university into disrepute: it is a matter for resignations.

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Written by Alan Caruba, Warning Signs | 04 March 2010

What was that most homeowners and apartment dwellers most feared in the recent record-breaking blizzard that hit the northeast?

The answer is losing electricity and that is why the news of the event was always filled with reports of what towns had lost electricity due to downed tree limbs. This was followed by news of how quickly the utilities were making repairs.

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Written by Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun | 02 March 2010

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But let's not forget the third leg of last year's great trifecta of panics: the global warming that was going to dry out the dams of Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, turn the Great Barrier Reef white and drown half of Bangladesh.

Instead, as rain returns, the globe refuses to keep warming, the Arctic ice rebuilds, great snows bury North America and Tuvalu refuses to sink into the sea, the only thing rising now is the public's scepticism.

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Written by Dr. Henry I. Miller, OC Register | 01 March 2010

Just when we thought that at long last we wouldn't have Al Gore to kick around any more, he resurfaces with a characteristically pretentious, apocalyptic New York Times op-ed [Feb. 27] about global warming, "an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it."

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