Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen

Written by Peter Berkowitz, Wall Street Journal | 14 March 2010

The notion of objective truth has been abandoned and the peer review process gives scholars ample opportunity to reward friends and punish enemies.

Last fall, emails revealed that scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England and colleagues in the U.S. and around the globe deliberately distorted data to support dire global warming scenarios and sought to block scholars with a different view from getting published. What does this scandal say generally about the intellectual habits and norms at our universities?

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Global Warming and Cold War Thinking

Written by William R. Hawkins, American Thinker | 14 March 2010

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi

China sees climate change as another opportunity to help topple the United States from global preeminence, which remains its primary strategic goal in world politics.

On March 7, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi held a press conference at the 3^rd Session of 11^th National People's Congress meeting in Beijing. He presented a masterful example of the diplomatic art of using the language of international peace and cooperation while at the same time promising that "[w]e will continue to firmly uphold China's sovereignty, security, and development interests and conduct all-round diplomacy."

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Attorney General Greg Abbott on why Texas is suing the EPA

Written by GREG ABBOTT, Houston Chronicle | 14 March 2010

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott

The Environmental Protection Agency recently concluded that man-made greenhouse gas emissions — including carbon dioxide — are harmful pollutants and must be regulated. The lawsuit I filed challenging that finding does not address the disputed science surrounding global warming. Instead, it focuses on the indisputable fact that the EPA relied on information that has been discredited, manipulated, lost or destroyed, and sometimes evaded peer review. The lawsuit does not attempt to show that the globe is not warming. It does, however, show that the process used by the EPA in deciding to regulate greenhouse gases is riddled with errors that render its conclusion untrustworthy.

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Government rebuked over global warming nursery rhyme adverts

Written by Matthew Moore, Telegraph | 14 March 2010

Ed Milliband, Environment Secretary, leading the charge in misinformation

Two nursery rhyme adverts commissioned by the Government to raise awareness of climate change have been banned for overstating the risks.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that the adverts – which were based on the children's poems Jack and Jill and Rub-A-Dub-Dub – made exaggerated claims about the threat to Britain from global warming.

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Fixing climate change shouldn't cost the Earth

Written by Bjorn Lomborg, Australian | 14 March 2010

Image by wstera2 via Flickr

FOR the better part of a decade, I have upset many climate activists by pointing out that there are far better ways to stop global warming than trying to persuade governments to force or bribe citizens into slashing their reliance on fuels that emit carbon dioxide.

What especially bugs my critics is the idea that cutting carbon would cost far more than the problem it is meant to solve.

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Bill Maher once again shows his complete ignorance of science and current events

Written by Thomas Richard, CCF Editor | 13 March 2010

Maher: He's only stoned when he's on the air.

[H/T to climatedepot.com]  Bill Maher, who has smoked just one too many joints in his life, once again stuck his size 7 foot in his mouth. On his show "Real Time," which aired March 12, he said Republicans weren't disgusted by cap and trade when Bush Sr. used it to stop acid rain.

Comparing (mixing up?) sulfur dioxide (SO2) with carbon dioxide (CO2) is on par with comparing skeptical scientists with holocaust deniers. Which he's done regularly in his quest to dumb down America.

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Richard Lindzen v. Hadi Dowlatabadi

Written by Luboš Motl, physicist, reference frame | 12 March 2010

Hadi Dowlatabadi

An interesting aspect is that Richard Lindzen, the skeptic, and Hadi Dowlatabadi, a consensus scientist, agreed about pretty much everything. The changes of the climate are unspectacular, the Earth has seen much bigger changes of temperature and CO2, 600 ppm of CO2 wouldn't do anything visible, and so on.

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Amazon rain forests were unaffected from once-in-a-century drought in 2005

Written by OneIndia | 12 March 2010

Map location of the Amazon Basin.

A new NASA-funded study has concluded that the Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary to a previously published report and claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

"We found no big differences in the greenness level of these forests between drought and non-drought years, which suggests that these forests may be more tolerant of droughts than we previously thought," said Arindam Samanta, the study's lead author from Boston University.

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IPCC Rainforest eco-tastrophe claim confirmed as bunk

Written by Lewis Page, The Register | 12 March 2010

Amazon Basin forest

Official UN website still shows it as fact, though

More bad news today for the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as another of its extravangant ecopocalypse predictions, sourced from green campaigners, has been confirmed as bunk by scientists.

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Unmasking the Global Warming Belief System

Written by Jay Lehr, Dakota Voice | 12 March 2010

If you care about twenty-first century society, you must read Steve Goreham’s new book, Climatism. In my 55-year career as a scientist I have written more than 1,000 book reviews for various journals. No book has pleased me more than this one.

Unmasking a Dangerous System
After The Heartland Institute’s Third International Conference on Climate Change in March 2009, Goreham decided to summarize, between the covers of a single book, everything everyone should know on this topic. In 390 pages of narrative, including 133 outstanding charts and illustrations plus 1,134 references from countless articles, he has succeeded.

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Outlook cloudy on climate

Written by Eric Deggans, St. Petersburg Times | 12 March 2010

The question comes at Denis Phillips several times a day, delivered by e-mail from curious viewers struggling with the longest cold snap the Tampa Bay area has seen in a while.

From their end of the send button, it's a simple inquiry. But Phillips, chief meteorologist at Tampa ABC affiliate WFTS-Ch. 28, knows there is no such thing when the question involves whether global warming actually exists.

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Traffic Fatalities Hit Record Low

Written by Henry Payne, Planet Gore | 12 March 2010

As with global warming, perpetuating Michael Crichton’s proverbial “state of fear” is crucial to advancing the public-safety lobby’s auto-regulatory state. Over the last 15 years, we’ve been told that:

— Ditching the federal 55-MPH speed limit would cause carnage.
— Increased sales of unstable, rollover-prone SUVs would cause carnage.
— Cell phone use in vehicles would cause carnage.
— And now that automakers’ conversion to electronic controls (like Toyota gas pedals) have caused carnage.

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