No Frakking Consensus

Pachauri's 5-Star Sustainability Summit

2012-01-30T12:57:00.000-05:00

If you were hosting a sustainability conference that criticized energy-intensive lifestyles and over-consumption, would you do it at a five-star hotel?

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Medical Journals Spearhead Climate Lynch Mob

2012-01-28T13:55:00.000-05:00

Why are the editors of leading medical journals trying to suppress climate free speech? Since this isn’t their area of expertise how dare they harass those with a different point-of-view?

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Green Energy: the Auditor Isn't Impressed

2012-01-26T15:23:00.002-05:00

A report by the Auditor General of a Canadian province highlights the dark side of green energy.

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IPCC Scientists - Guests of the Environmental Defense Fund

2012-01-21T11:56:00.000-05:00

A powerful lobby group supplied their meeting space, helped with their travel documents & subsidized their meals. Top IPCC scientists went along for the ride.

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2012-01-20T19:14:00.000-05:00

The Keystone pipeline: Reuters doubts the unions, but believes the greens.

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Free Speech is Not Negotiable: Stop SOPA

2012-01-18T11:44:00.004-05:00

The vibrant, international climate skeptic community owes its existence to the Internet. We must defend it.

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The Canadian (Climate) Paradox

2012-01-16T18:11:00.001-05:00

How many more reports highlighting the IPCC’s flaws will it take before politicians draw the obvious conclusions? How many additional scandals must surface before political leaders realize that this body doesn’t deserve their trust?

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German-Language News

2012-01-14T10:19:00.002-05:00

It’s official. The Delinquent Teen is being translated into German and will be for sale in German bookstores later this year.

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Those Who Claim to Speak for the Future

2012-01-12T10:21:00.000-05:00

A collection of NGO brats, self-important rich folks, and UN bureaucrats have taken it upon themselves to be the voice of future generations.

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Proud To Be Canadian

2012-01-10T23:35:00.001-05:00

First our leaders said 'no' to Kyoto. Then they stood up to green bullies.

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What Financial Meltdowns Teach Us About the IPCCC

2012-01-05T18:29:00.002-05:00

When I describe the surreal world of climate science to people who are strangers to that world I know it sounds fantastical. But there are strong parallels with the recently destroyed economies of Iceland, Greece, and Ireland.

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Interviews

2012-01-03T19:59:00.001-05:00

Links to two recent interviews with yours truly. One was conducted via e-mail and the other is a 40-minute audio interview.

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Pachauri: It's Too Late to Fight Climate Change

2012-01-01T20:53:00.000-05:00

Back in 2007 IPCC chairman Pachauri made a prediction regarding the year 2012.

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The World's Slowest Learners

2011-12-31T13:31:00.002-05:00

According to UN bureaucrats, climate change is a planetary emergency and time is running out. So when US senators voted unanimously (95-0) back in 1997 against the Kyoto Protocol why didn’t the UN abandon the idea of a global emissions treaty and pursue a Plan B?

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Munich Christmas Market

2011-12-24T12:37:00.000-05:00

When I spoke in Munich last month I had the good fortune to be in town just as the annual Christmas market kicked off. Here are a few of my photos.

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Rajendra Pachuri: Ever the Activist

2011-12-23T12:47:00.000-05:00

According to the head of what is supposed to be a neutral scientific body, young people need to be mobilized to become major agents of change. Does it really need to be said that science is no longer science if those with activist agendas are in charge?

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2011-12-21T14:20:00.000-05:00

When six police officers visit your home for three hours, confiscate your computers, and mess with your phone line it’s little comfort to be told you aren’t a suspect.

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2011-12-20T23:30:00.001-05:00

According to a selection of links assembled by blogger Tom Nelson a long list of locales will be hit hardest by climate change.

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Which Other Minorities Should Be Blasted Into Space?

2011-12-17T14:16:00.000-05:00

How funny would it have been had IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri said that gays should be given a one-way ticket to outer space?

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Finally - Real Journalism on NGOs

2011-12-14T11:54:00.001-05:00

The blogosphere is putting professional journalists to shame with its investigations into, and analysis of, groups such as Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund.

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Over-the-top Climate Rhetoric

2011-12-13T13:51:00.001-05:00

Emotional, over-the-top language doesn’t come from real leaders in a time of real crisis. Rather, it’s a sign that someone’s trying to stampede public opinion.

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'Delinquent Teen' Press Clippings

2011-12-12T13:29:00.001-05:00

Reviews of my book continue to appear in Switzerland, South Africa, the UK, and the US.

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When Your Paycheque Depends on a Climate Crisis

2011-12-08T09:11:00.001-05:00

There is now a small army of experts, activists, and bureaucrats whose economic lives depend on there being a climate crisis. Without such a crisis their jobs, their travel to exotic places, and their moments in the media spotlight would all disappear.

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Pachauri's Green Torch Bearers

2011-12-06T11:55:00.001-05:00

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is supposed to be a neutral and impartial body. But its chairman is encouraging business students to be green activists.

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Inside the IPCC: the Climategate E-Mails

2011-11-23T07:14:00.001-05:00

Newly released e-mails shed an unkind light on internal IPCC politics.

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Pachauri's Rhetoric vs Reality

2011-11-22T04:19:00.002-05:00

The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has systematically misled us regarding the quality and kind of material his organization consults. Are there really no consequences when the head of a Nobel Peace Prize-winning body behaves in this manner?

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Pachauri Interviewed by Pretend Journalist

2011-11-20T08:36:00.000-05:00

The UK’s Guardian newspaper has published a fawning article about IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri. But the article is pure propaganda. It was written by the Natural Resources Defense Council – a green lobby group that fancies itself “the Earth’s best defense.”

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Rajendra Pachauri: the Little Man Who Told Big Whoppers

2011-11-19T06:18:00.001-05:00

Some IPCC personnel aren’t chosen for their impressive track records. Not even close.

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News & Reviews

2011-11-14T18:31:00.001-05:00

At the end of 2011 Treehugger.com continues to portray IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri as a saint.

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The IPCC's Fake Review Editor

2011-11-09T09:18:00.002-05:00

A person who “played no role whatsoever” in an IPCC chapter nevertheless signed a statement that claimed otherwise.

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A Dark Day in Australia

2011-11-08T09:25:00.001-05:00

Two thirds of Australians opposed the carbon tax that has just been passed, but Al Gore says this legislation is a victory for the Australian people.

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How to Spot a Delinquent Teenager

2011-11-06T09:52:00.001-05:00

Delinquent teenagers never take responsibility for their own actions. After they’ve set fire to the the neighbour’s sofa they insist the real issue is that the cops got the time slightly wrong.

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When the IPCC Make an Error, Is It the Journalist's Fault?

2011-11-04T10:12:00.001-04:00

I trusted the IPCC’s website when it listed the lead authors of one of its chapters. If that list is wrong am I the party who hasn’t been careful?

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Book Sightings & an Invite to Germany

2011-11-03T18:23:00.001-04:00

Some book reviews, an excerpt in The Huffington Post, an an invitation to speak at a climate change conference in Munich.

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WWF-Affiliated Personnel in Working Group 1

2011-11-02T12:52:00.003-04:00

Most chapters in Working Group 1 of the 2007 Climate Bible contained at least one scientist who is affiliated with professional climate lobbyists. In one instance, four of the lead authors were tainted in this manner.

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A Paperback is Born

2011-10-28T18:22:00.002-04:00

My book is now available as a paperback. Thank you for your patience.

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Paperback Update

2011-10-26T14:19:00.001-04:00

The paperback edition of The Delinquent Teenager will make its debut within the next 48 hours.

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WWF Issues Presss Release About My Book

2011-10-24T15:55:00.001-04:00

The World Wildlife Fund says the charge that scientists affiliated with its organization have infiltrated the IPCC is “ludicrous.” Surely it can do better than that.

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National Post Excerpt & Review

2011-10-21T23:46:00.001-04:00

Canada’s National Post newspaper is running an excerpt of my book this weekend. It may be the only newspaper on the planet employing three climate skeptic journalists.

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Book Review in an Arizona Newspaper

2011-10-20T18:24:00.001-04:00

The Delinquent Teenager has been reviewed in the Tuscon Citizen.

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Please Review My Book on Amazon

2011-10-15T19:23:00.004-04:00

Thank you, folks from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad & Tobago, the United Kingdom, and the United States who’ve purchased copies of this book during its first 48 hours.

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WWF Influence a the Highest Levels of the IPCC

2011-10-04T14:30:00.003-04:00

40 people belonged to the IPCC’s 2007 'core writing team.' 11 of them have documented links to either the World Wildlife Fund or Greenpeace.

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78 Names

2011-10-01T01:02:00.001-04:00

The scientists on this list either played some role in the 2007 Climate Bible or are helping to write the next one expected to be completed in 2013. In many cases, they’re doing dual duty.

All of them have a documented, public relationship with professional lobbyists.

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Glaciergate's Other WWF Connection

2011-09-29T23:04:00.001-04:00

The erroneous Himalayan glacier prediction was based on a WWF report. The IPCC chapter in which that mistake occurred was led by two WWF-affiliated scientists.

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Here an Activist, There an Activist

2011-09-27T22:11:00.002-04:00

In a single IPCC chapter we find an author affiliated the WWF, another with Greenpeace, and a third with the Environmental Defense Fund. Sure, this is a scientific document.

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How the WWF Infiltrated the IPCC (Part 2)

2011-09-26T22:37:00.001-04:00

Two-thirds of the 2007 Climate Bible’s chapters include personnel affiliated with the World Wildlife Fund. Fifteen chapters were led by WWF-affiliated scientists.

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How the WWF Infiltrated the IPCC

2011-09-23T22:51:00.001-04:00

Between 2004 and 2008 the World Wildlife Fund recruited 130 “leading climate scientists mostly, but not exclusively, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” to help it heighten the public’s sense of urgency.

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Solyndra Solar Scandal Gains Traction

2011-09-14T11:02:00.001-04:00

A now-bankrupt solar energy company flushed half a billion dollars of taxpayer money down the toilet – after President Obama said it was a poster child of the new green economy.

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Al Gore's Money-Grubbing

2011-09-12T11:32:00.000-04:00

Al Gore says climate change is a planetary emergency. But he’ll only tell a campus audience about it if the cheque is big enough.

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Of Footnotes & Factchecking (book update)

2011-09-07T11:34:00.000-04:00

My book-length exposé of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be available soon.

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The IAC Report One Year Later

2011-09-01T12:12:00.001-04:00

A year after a damning assessment was released, the IPCC continues to thumb its nose at key recommendations.

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Comic Book Analysis from the Leader of the IPCC

2011-08-27T17:36:00.002-04:00

History, according to the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, reads like a comic book full of stark environmental villains and bizarre motives.

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Pachauri's Squishy Timeline

2011-08-26T10:35:00.001-04:00

In 2007 the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the world was at a defining moment, that the next 2 to 3 years would determine our future. Without a new emissions treaty by 2012, he said, it would be too late.

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The Journal of Climate & the IPCC

2011-08-23T16:52:00.002-04:00

We’re supposed to trust the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s conclusions because it relies on peer-reviewed scientific literature. But many of the people who run scientific journals also write IPCC reports. This is a circular, incestuous process.

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The Backstory to the 'Fleeing Species' Claim

2011-08-21T14:11:00.000-04:00

Journalists aren’t telling you that the lead researcher behind the species-are-fleeing-global-warming story has come to questionable conclusions in the past.

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Behind the Aliens-Will-Smite-Us News Story

2011-08-19T11:33:00.000-04:00

The up-and-coming generation of scientific minds appears to assume that humans are a pox on the planet.

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Why I Won't Be Renewing My 'Economist' Subscription

2011-08-17T14:27:00.001-04:00

Rather than helping to keep climate authorities honest, The Economist magazine now serves up a steady diet of green pap. When sound journalistic judgment leaves the building, I stop renewing my subscription.

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Comic Relief

2011-08-10T22:25:00.002-04:00

What with the stockmarket rollercoaster and the vandalism in the UK it has been a tough week. Here's a 3-minute spoof video on environmental public service announcements. No matter where you stand on global warming, this should make you laugh.

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The Y2K Scare, the Media & Climate Change

2011-08-09T15:31:00.001-04:00

Media coverage of climate change has a great deal in common with how the press covered the Y2K scare. There’s little evidence that news outlets learned much from that embarrassing episode.

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Naming Names: Marine Experts Tainted by Activist Cash

2011-08-05T09:43:00.001-04:00

The list of people who’ve accepted $150,000 from an advocacy organization is a long one. There are lots of PhDs here, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with full-blown political activists.

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Pew, What's That Smell?

2011-08-04T09:22:00.002-04:00

An activist group has been funding a particular corner of scientific research to the tune of $1 million a year for more than two decades. Do we really think this hasn’t influenced how those working in that field see the world?

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Greenpeace's Fear Machine

2011-08-02T13:47:00.001-04:00

17 years ago a Greenpeace report titled The Climate Time Bomb tried to frighten us with lurid images and dire predictions that have since failed.

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Canadian Scientists and the World Wildlife Fund

2011-07-29T10:31:00.001-04:00

When hundreds of Canadian scientists – and 12 science bodies – joined a World Wildlife Fund ad campaign they undermined their own authority. They became politically-motivated actors in a political discussion.

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Calling Skeptics Stupid Doesn't Convince Anyone

2011-07-23T23:42:00.000-04:00

How does calling me stupid and equating me with a Holocaust denier advance the debate? Is the fate of the planet really at stake – or are we just playacting in a sandbox?

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Greenpeace Disses 'Covert Calculations'

2011-07-20T10:13:00.001-04:00

Greenpeace has seen the light. Years after it became the norm in climate science to hoard & hide data, Greenpeace is now complaining about such behaviour.

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Al Gore's Shameful New Campaign

2011-07-19T17:58:00.001-04:00

Why is Al Gore linking greenhouse gas emissions to natural disasters when experts in that field say no such link exists?

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About My Book

2011-07-14T12:35:00.000-04:00

My book has a new title – and will be available in September.

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Looking for Examples of the Hockey Stick Graph

2011-07-12T18:43:00.002-04:00

Can you point me to science textbooks, government documents, or websites of reputable organizations where the Michael Mann hockey stick graph appears?

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IPCC Bigwigs Spout Political, Childish Nonsense

2011-07-10T11:22:00.002-04:00

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is supposed to stick to the science. But not only do its leaders make political pronouncements – these pronouncements are startlingly unsophisticated.

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Chris Landsea and the Moral Midgets

2011-07-07T17:11:00.001-04:00

The scientific community expects us to trust its judgment on the question of whether global warming is the fault of human beings. But its response to the Chris Landsea affair demonstrates that that judgment is impaired.

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Landsea, the IPCC & the Union of Concerned Scientists

2011-07-05T17:49:00.001-04:00

There’s a link between hurricane expert Chris Landsea, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. That link is James J. McCarthy.

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Fanaticism 101

2011-07-02T09:24:00.000-04:00

According to someone with a PhD from Harvard, my skeptical climate change views mean one thing: I’m intent on murdering his grandchildren.

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The Thrashing of Al Gore Continues

2011-06-29T09:41:00.000-04:00

When skeptics argue with Al Gore about the science of climate change do they step right into his trap?

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Walter Russell Mead Trashes Al Gore

2011-06-26T19:12:00.001-04:00

Over the past 16 months Walter Russell Mead, a Democrat, has authored a series of bracing commentaries about what’s wrong with the green movement. Near the top of his list: Al Gore.

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The Activists, the Media, and the Public

2011-06-24T18:51:00.001-04:00

When activists hoodwink the media – and questionable environmental scare stories are the result – why don’t we care?

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My Fave Chairman Pachauri Quote

2011-06-23T08:24:00.002-04:00

The credibility of the IPCC has long been in tatters. There have been multiple calls for the resignation of its chairman. Rather than addressing this state of affairs, the head of the IPCC thinks corporate entities should change their ways - because we live in a world in which "reputation and public opinion are extremely important."

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Pachauri's Cause

2011-06-21T17:17:00.001-04:00

The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says responding to climate change is part of a larger goal: transforming the world economy.

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Two Population Predictions

2011-06-19T12:29:00.001-04:00

Forty years ago scientists said radical change was necessary if humanity was to survive. Along the way they endorsed a population prediction that now appears ridiculous.

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Oodles of Cash

2011-06-17T17:01:00.001-04:00

Who knew that green groups – and those with business interests in renewable energy – have access to such obscene amounts of money?

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IPCC: These People Haven't Learned a Thing

2011-06-15T17:35:00.000-04:00

A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report once again relies on research conducted by Greenpeace. Once again, Greenpeace personnel are serving as IPCC lead authors.

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Science is Not a Tyrant

2011-06-14T16:57:00.001-04:00

Activists, politicians, and journalists love to play the ‘science says’ game when talking about global warming. But scientific facts are one thing. How best to respond to those facts is a completely different discussion – in which we all deserve a voice.

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How Much Harm to Humans is OK?

2011-06-11T15:22:00.002-04:00

An IPCC official thinks that quadrupling gasoline prices could help save the planet. What effect such a policy would have on human beings appears to be irrelevant.

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The IPCC as UN Funding Mechanism

2011-06-08T19:13:00.001-04:00

You gotta love the UN. The 31-member IPCC bureau includes representatives from undemocratic and unsavoury countries such as Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Malaysia, Madagascar and the Maldives. Soon, these countries may be deciding the fate of billions of UN-administered climate change funds.

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Climate Change & Violent Fantasies

2011-06-06T18:13:00.002-04:00

When did it become acceptable to pen violent fantasies about people with whom you disagree? When did it become OK to talk – luridly and out loud – about their deaths?

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David Suzuki is a Drama Queen

2011-06-03T19:14:00.001-04:00

While the rest of us approach challenges with determination, optimism, and faith in ourselves as problem solvers, drama queens see only worst-case scenarios. They exaggerate. They emotionalize.

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Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Critiqued

2011-06-02T13:54:00.001-04:00

An opinion piece in Scientific America alleges that, over the long term, a great deal of scientific research turns out not to be true. Independent replication of research findings is apparently far less common than we think.

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That Wobbly Foundation: Peer-Reviewed Research

2011-05-30T12:19:00.001-04:00

Climate activists have long argued that scientific research that has been peer-reviewed is reliable, trustworthy, & true.

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A Story About a Farmer, a Flood & Fish

2011-05-28T11:11:00.001-04:00

A flooded-out farmer is fighting for his economic survival. Rather than assisting him, environmental bureaucrats are contributing to his nightmare.

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Lord Turnbull Trashes the IPCC

2011-05-26T09:00:00.001-04:00

A prominent UK civil servant has issued a plea for climate sanity that is less-than-kind to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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No Harmony With Hogweed

2011-05-24T22:24:00.000-04:00

People who think we should live in harmony with nature usually forget to mention poisonous plants.

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E-Book Tipping Point

2011-05-22T18:20:00.001-04:00

Amazon.com says e-books have begun out-selling hardcover and paperback books combined. Climate titles that don’t have an e-book edition are now at a serious disadvantage.

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Swedish Show

2011-05-19T09:47:00.001-04:00

Rather than championing logic and reason, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences now stages political theatre. Humanity is accused, tried, and convicted in a “court case” in which the verdict was determined in advance.

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IPCC: Screw the Rules

2011-05-17T18:18:00.001-04:00

Last year a committee investigating the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change told it to pull up its socks and follow its own rules. This week, the IPCC decided to jettison an important rule instead.

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The IPCC, the UK, and Climate Censorship

2011-05-16T15:45:00.002-04:00

When British delegates attempt to censor speakers at a Russian Academy of Science climate change event that’s a clue that science has left the building.

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Blindspots at the IPCC

2011-05-13T14:05:00.000-04:00

A new 1,000-page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report appears to ignore both nuclear power and shale gas – even though both these energy sources emit far less CO2 than does coal. This suggests the IPCC’s top priority isn’t emissions reduction after all.

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The IPCC on Renewable Energy

2011-05-10T19:05:00.002-04:00

The IPCC has released a 26-page summary of a new report three weeks ahead of the 1,000-page full document. This is an example of how the IPCC manipulates media coverage. Journalists can’t compare the summary to the real thing.

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The Climate Caper

2011-05-09T17:21:00.001-04:00

Written by a senior Australian scientist, The Climate Caper explores some of the reasons why official IPCC science has become so pervasive. For one thing, it’s affiliated with huge government agencies employing large numbers of civil servant scientists.

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Slivers of the Nobel Pie

2011-05-06T10:30:00.001-04:00

When a cycling group told its members they were going to hear from a Nobel laureate, it didn’t explain that climate modeler Philip Duffy’s contribution to a decade-old IPCC report was limited – and tainted by conflict-of-interest.

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Fixed: the IPCC's Climate Model Evaluation Game

2011-05-03T14:13:00.002-04:00

Each IPCC report includes a chapter that evaluates climate models. Is this written by disinterested parties who take a cold, hard look at the strengths & weaknesses of these analytical tools? Nope. It’s authored by people whose livelihoods depend on climate models.

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The Case of Michael Oppenheimer

2011-05-01T22:04:00.001-04:00

Perhaps the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change doesn’t regard activist scientists as damaged goods because neither the National Academy of Sciences nor the American Association for the Advancement of Science does, either.

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