Category Archives: The Deniers

Lawrence Solomon: Australia won’t cap and trade

(April 27, 2010) Seeing countries around the world back away from their climate change commitments, and seeing his own electoral support crumble, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced today that Australia will be shelving its cap and trade program for at least three years, until after the next election. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Global warming doomsayers continue to lose ground

(April 20, 2010) Fewer and fewer people accept the argument that global warming is a threat to the planet, according to the latest Rasmussen Poll, and even those who fear climate change don`t necessarily blame human activities. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: The non-inquiry of climategate

(April 15, 2010) To allay public concern over Climategate – the unauthorized release of some 3000 documents from the computers of the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University – the university established two independent inquiries to attend to the widespread view that science had been corrupted through the distortion and destruction of data, through cover-ups, and through the perversion of the peer review process. Continue reading

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The new climate game

(April 10, 2010) Right from the early days of global warming controversy, they whacked any scientist who dissented from the view that CO2 was warming the planet in a dangerous way. Up popped other skeptical scientists, and WHACK!! Down they went. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: France to hold official debate on climate change

(April 5, 2010) At the suggestion of France’s science minister, Valérie Pécresse, France’s National Academy of Sciences will hold an official debate on climate change to try to defuse this newly explosive issue. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Sarkozy scraps France’s carbon taxes

(March 23, 2010) Two days after French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s crushing defeat in regional elections, he has called off his plan to impose a carbon tax on the French populace. Continue reading

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The burden of believing in global weirding

(March 9, 2010) We are all — yes, I think I can generalize here — desperate for some good news when it comes to global warming. Continue reading

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Al Gore’s global warming claims aren’t fooling Americans

(March 5, 2010) Once, there was a short-lived sitcom about two lovable but hapless New York City cops who, whenever chaos reigned, always seemed to be elsewhere on some laughable misadventure. As the opening credits rolled, a frustrated dispatcher could be heard mournfully pleading, “Car 54, where are you?” Continue reading

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Global warming: a theoretical fact

(March 5, 2010) The concept of manmade global warming – the idea that global temperature is increasing as a result of the green house effect from pollutants like CO2 that come from the industrialization of society – has become widely known. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: A dying initiative

(February 22, 2010) The Western Climate Initiative’s cap and trade market may soon need to be renamed The Canada Climate Initiative. Continue reading

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