Category Archives: Climate Change

China Dialogue review of global warming debate not objective, says author of environmental best seller

(November 11, 2008) China Dialogue fails to objectively review the scientific debate about global warming in the environemtal best seller, The Deniers, by Lawrence Solomon of Energy Probe, Canada’s top energy industry watchdog. Probe International calls the author’s response a “must read” for Chinese environmentalists, lawmakers, and scholars. Continue reading

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Green market risk

(November 8, 2008) If you think the causes of the financial crisis are complicated, just wait until we start trading carbon. Continue reading

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Letters to the Editor: The Deniers

(November 1, 2008) Ronald Bailey (in Carbon: Tax, Trade, or Deregulate/Reason/July 2008) says that the science of global warming has finally lined up for him. He claims that perhaps more relevant thant the “air of trumphalism” among attendees at the U.N. conference on climate change in Bali was the fact that a “lot of the climatologists who were there sounded very scared.” Neither trumphalism nor fear is a solid standard for evidence. Continue reading

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Wielding the carbon club

(September 30, 2008) ‘Cut back on carbon emission,” the Third World is lectured. “It’s for the good of the planet and it’s for your own good, too. Don’t point fingers at the West’s carbon emissions. Don’t protest that you’d like your share of automobiles and air conditioners. Don’t tell us that you know what’s in your own self-interest. Just do as your told, or we’ll punish you.” Continue reading

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Global cooling sign: Solar winds at 50-year-low

(September 28, 2008) In yet another sign that the Earth could be heading in to a period of global cooling, NASA reports that the solar wind is now at a 50-year low, the lowest that NASA has seen. This change in solar activity, which began to occur about a decade ago, coincides with the end of the climb in global temperatures that had been underway for decades. Continue reading

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Conservatives miss Wikipedia’s threat

(August 21, 2008) Wikipedia, the community-edited encyclopedia that anyone can revise, is one of the Web’s biggest success stories. What you may not know is that it also has become an important player in the political world. Continue reading

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Solar radio waves could signal global cooling

(August 11, 2008) Those who view the Sun, and not CO2, as a driver of temperatures on Earth look to various measures of solar activity for explanations of climate change. or one such measure — radio waves from the Sun, or solar flux — they look to Canada’s Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in the Okanagan valley, near Penticton, British Columbia. What they find supports the view that another Little Ice Age could be coming. Continue reading

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India rejects climate doom, pursues economic boom

(July 26, 2008) India loves the UN’s climate change policies and so does India’s representative at the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri. Continue reading

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Is Wikipedia promoting global warming hysteria?

(July 9, 2008) Two weeks ago, a parent-teacher council blamed the online research source Wikipedia for falling test scores in Scotland. Continue reading

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Wikipropaganda – Spinning green

(July 8, 2008) Ever wonder how Al Gore, the United Nations, and company continue to get away with their claim of a “scientific consensus” confirming their doomsday view of global warming? Look no farther than Wikipedia for a stunning example of how the global-warming propaganda machine works. Continue reading

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