Category Archives: The Deniers

(November 15, 2007) Antartica – a vast territory whose sea-ice growth in winter effectively doubles its size to envelop an area three times that of Canada – is the world’s coldest continent by far, its permanent ice sheet regulating the Antarctic atmosphere. Continue reading →

(November 10, 2007) The alignment of the planets, and especially that of Jupiter and Saturn, control the climate on Earth. Continue reading →

(November 7, 2007) ‘Big Thaw,’ a summertime spectacular in National Geographic magazine, provided awesome scenes of climate-change catastrophes. Continue reading →

(October 26, 2007) Vincent Gray has begun a second career as a climate-change activist. His motivation springs from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body that combats global warming by advocating the reduction of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Continue reading →

(October 11, 2007) Should children become tools of propagandists, their schools able to serve as indoctrination centres that teach students to parrot the views of the powers-that-be rather than think for themselves? Continue reading →

(September 8, 2007) To save the planet from global warming – a looming catastrophe many believe we can no longer prevent – could require that China stop building the equivalent of a new 1000 megawatt coal plant every five days, and India the same equivalent of a new 1000 megawatt coal plant every five days, and India the same equivalent every two weeks. Continue reading →

(September 1, 2007) Stephen Schwartz knows as much about the effects of aerosols on climate change as anyone in the world, and he’s worried. He believes climate change is so massive an economic issue that we face costs “in the trillions if not quadrillions of dollars.” Continue reading →

(August 15, 2007) Iceland is shrouded in a permanent low-pressure system. Far to the south, the Azores are shrouded in permanent highs. Both pressure systems rock, from east to west and with ever-changing intensity, in the process controlling the North Atlantic’s westerly winds. Continue reading →

(July 28, 2007) He’s called the world’s most famous hurricane expert, not because he likes to fly into hurricanes to experience them up close – which he does – but because of what he’s learned from them, up there, buffeted by the fury of nature. Continue reading →

(July 17, 2007) Bob Carter, a professor at James Cook University (Queensland) and the University of Adelaide (South Australia), is a paleontologist, a stratigrapher, and a marine geologist. Continue reading →