Category Archives: Climate Change

A flirtation with Chicken Little

(May 20, 2008) In an opinion piece for the Washington Times, columnist Welsey Pruden looks at new Republican converts to “global-warming hysteria, “including President Bush and John McCain. Continue reading

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Brr! The climate cools for reality-deniers

(May 20, 2008) Columnist Melanie Phillips in her review of The Deniers for the U.K.’s The Spectator magazine, writes the “provocatively entitled” Deniers “shows that not only is the fabled climate change ‘consensus’ itself a sham but the so-called MMGW (Man-Made Global Warming) ‘deniers’ are by far the more accomplished and distinguished scientists than those pushing the theory as a settled and incontrovertible truth. Continue reading

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Global warming hysteria challenged (review)

(May 20, 2008) An anti-nuclear, Toronto-based, urban-loving, 1970s peace activist who opposes subsidies to the oil industry might be the last person expected to detail cracks in the science of global warming. Continue reading

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32,000 Deniers

(May 16, 2008) Freeman Dyson is one of the world’s most eminent physicists. Please click on above image for an enlarged picture. Continue reading

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Americans cooling to global warming

(May 15, 2008) All three U.S. presidential hopefuls have made global warming a high-profile issue in their campaigns. In this they are out of step with the broad electorate, which ranks global warming well down the scale of important issues. Continue reading

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The Daily Denier

(May 14, 2008) The Orange County political blog, Orange Punch, has launched its very own Deniers series, featuring extracts from the Lawrence Solomon book, “The Deniers The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution and fraud”. Continue reading

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Green consumers turn red

(May 7, 2008) US presidential candidates John McCain and Hilary Clinton vow to combat man-made climate change by curbing America’s CO2 emissions. They also vow to give American drivers a tax holiday this summer by suspending the federal gas tax. Voters are upset at the price they must pay at the pump. Continue reading

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The climate change deniers

(May 6, 2008) “The Deniers is a timely, necessary antidote to a political and scientific discussion poisoned by hubristic group think and the kind of scorched earth (mis)behavior that inevitably arises when a movement becomes so uncritically wedded to the commandments of a pseudo-religion its adherents would rather destroy their adversaries than risk debating them. Continue reading

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The Opinionator

Next to Al Gore, William Connolley may be the world’s most influential person in the global warming debate. He has a PhD in mathematics and worked as a climate modeller, but those accomplishments don’t explain his influence – PhDs are not uncommon and, in any case, he comes from the mid-level ranks in the British Antarctic Survey, the agency for which he worked until recently.
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Public intellectuals

(May 1, 2008) Foreign Policy/Prospect lists the world’s top 100 public intellectuals, “the thinkers who are shaping the tenor of our time,” as it describes them. Now it’s up to us to select the best from among them, by choosing our five favourites. Continue reading

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