Written by Thomas Richard, CCF Editor | 14 April 2010

"[CO2] sequestration is difficult, but if we don't have sequestration then I see very little hope for the world. No one can be comfortable at the prospect of continuing to pump out the amounts of carbon dioxide that we are pumping out at present ... with consequences that we really can't predict but are probably not good."

—Lord Ron Oxburgh, from a 2004 press interview when he was chairman of Shell. Lord Oxburgh also chaired the "impartial" panel that just cleared the British climate researchers of any wrongdoing after their emails were leaked on the Internet. Critics rightly claim the inquiry was "rushed and superficial," without having done a "proper job." [H/T to Jim]

Written by Thomas Richard, CCF Editor | 24 March 2010

"I want to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads.…Anybody that is a global-warming denier at this point in time has got their head so deeply up their a--, I'm not sure they could hear me."

—James Cameron, Avatar director, in a recent rant attacking global warming skeptics, still smarting after losing the Best Picture Academy Award to his ex-wife, Katheryn Bigelow.

Written by Thomas Richard, CCF Editor | 15 January 2010

“When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’?”

—Danny Glover, claiming the quake in Haiti is the earth's revenge for the failure of Copenhagen.

Written by Thomas Richard, CCF Editor | 27 October 2009

John Kerry was an uncredited writer for the movie 2012. He just doesn't know it.

“The science is screaming at us to take action. All of our best scientists, in peer-reviewed studies, tell us that if (the earth's temperature rises more than 2 degrees centigrade [3.6°F]), we risk catastrophic changes to the climate, to our crops, to our water supply, to the ocean currents, to the ecosystems that we depend on.”

—John Kerry, pleading and urging his fellow Senate colleagues to pass a climate tax, as three days of hearings began today on a plan to control greenhouse emissions. All the items listed above simply aren't occurring and are based on computer models, which rarely scream anything.

Written by Thomas Richard, CCF Editor | 23 October 2009

Tour Guides: Obama inside a MIT research lab.

Obama gave a speech today in which he said our current healthcare system is unsustainable, endangers every single person, and is destroying our economy. Oops, our mistake. He was talking about clean energy and climate change. Here's a snippet from his latest plug-'n-play speech (starting to see a pattern?):

There are those who will suggest that moving toward clean energy will destroy our economy — when it’s the system we currently have that endangers our prosperity and prevents us from creating millions of new jobs.…There are going to be those who cynically claim — make cynical claims that contradict the overwhelming scientific evidence when it comes to climate change, claims whose only purpose is to defeat or delay the change that we know is necessary.

—President Obama, from his speech at MIT, on clean energy.

Written by Thomas Richard, CCF Editor | 22 October 2009

Pachauri, left, prostrating himself to Al Gore.

"I personally feel that he ought to be doing a lot more. I think that President Obama really needs to assert himself to see that the U.S. passes legislation -- it will make all the difference to negotiations."

—Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N. Climate Change Panel, when asked about Obama's commitment to combating climate change. His statement comes as the majority of Americans do not believe global warming is a serious threat. Fewer than half believe global warming should be addressed via an emissions tax or similar cap-and-trade programs.

Written by Thomas Richard, CCF Editor | 17 October 2009

We need a debate about it [whether vaccinations actually work and are safe]. The science is not settled. I was attacked for saying we should look into this, and I don't believe in it, and lots of people feel the same way. This is not settled science like global warming.

—Bill Maher, host of HBO's Real Time, on Oct. 16, 2009, who's anti-vaccination stance has been lambasted by both the right and left. While he wants a debate on their efficacy and believes it is a conspiracy, he doesn't see his hypocrisy with global warming, a far more inconclusive science based solely on computer models, biased and phony temperature readings, and partisan politics.

Written by Thomas Richard, CCF Editor | 01 October 2009

Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara using alarmist tactics in his bid to host the Games

"It could be that the 2016 Games are the last Olympics in the history of mankind…Global warming is getting worse. We have to come up with measures without which Olympic Games could not last long."

—Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, warning that the 2016 Olympics could very well be the last because of global warming. He also made it clear that Tokyo will use only renewable energy for its Olympic Stadium as part of its bid to host the 2016 games.

Written by Thomas Richard, CCF Editor | 28 September 2009

"So then we arrive at civil resistance. I think the point is—just as Gandhi did—to try to draw attention to what is just and what is unjust. It is kind of a last resort, but the problem is we are running out of time."

—James Hansen, comparing himself to Gandhi and rationalizing his recent arrest and his numerous acts of civil disobedience. Hansen continues to head up GISS, a subsidiary of NOAA/NASA.

Written by Thomas Richard, CCF Editor | 24 September 2009

Gore is proud of New York's nanny-mayor Bloomberg. He really, really is!

"I am a recovering politician. I'm on about step nine, so I try to stay out of the partisan races, but I'm very proud of Mike Bloomberg's leadership, I really am. I'm not just saying it."

—Al Gore, while in NY City during his anti-global warming crusade to 'paint roofs white,' giving a half-hearted endorsement to Republican Mayor Bloomberg. Readers may recall that just last year Gore was heavily involved in helping to get President Obama elected, so apparently taking an "honest inventory" of himself was conveniently side-stepped.