Pure symbolism. That's what "We Are Still In" really is. "We Are Still In" is the petulant response of 9 states, 8 Blue (CA, CT, HI, NY, OR, RI, VA, WA) and 1 Red (NC), out of 50, 202 cities and counties (mostly in Blue states) out of 3,144 (cities, counties, and county equivalents), 308 institutions of higher learning out of 4,140, and 1,530 "businesses and investors" out of 18.2 million businesses and about 160 million owners of stocks to President Trump's … [Read more...]
Yes, Prime Minister Gets it Right: Global Warming is a Sham Front for Political and Financial Ambitions
The BBC’s news side is utterly dedicated to spreading global warming alarmism and has even had a policy of refusing to interview fully qualified scientists who question it. But not everyone is on board with that policy in Britain. Two years ago the theatrical version of Yes, Prime Minister created a devastating critique of climate hysteria. Here are two key excerpts. Our friend Joseph Bast at the Heartland Institute calls these videos “simply astonishing, utterly … [Read more...]
The Ice Is Melting! The Ice Is Melting! Run for Your Lives!
Chicken Little never takes a vacation when it comes to environmental scares. A spring without birds, overpopulation, mass famines, resource exhaustion, rainforest destruction, mass extinctions, global cooling, acid rain, ozone depletion, global warming ... the list could go on and on. Just on the topic of global warming Chicken Little touts a new alarm pretty much every day. Chris Mooney, a Chicken Little eco-alarmist if ever there was one, trumpeted another last week in the Washington … [Read more...]
Freeman Dyson’s brief case against dangerous CO2-driven warming
At a lecture at Boston University a few years ago, Freeman Dyson, one of the world's top physicists, who replaced Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, put very simply one of the most basic arguments against the notion that CO2-driven global warming is likely to be disastrous: In humid air, the effect of carbon dioxide on radiation transport is unimportant, because the transport of radiation is already blocked by the much larger greenhouse effect of water vapor. … [Read more...]
Global Temperature and CO2—Which Drives Which?
The climate alarmist crowd never tires of insisting that anthropogenic additions to atmospheric carbon dioxide---up by 45 percent, from 280 to about 407 parts per million, since before the Industrial Revolution---are driving historically unprecedented and likely-to-become catastrophic global warming, and that they're exacerbated by increases in atmospheric methane (CH4) driven by the rising temperature, making methane a positive feedback. The claim rests on the notion that carbon dioxide level … [Read more...]
Heidegger, Fascism, Evergreen State College, and the Environmental Movement
There's a lot more behind modern environmentalism than enjoyment of furry animals and beautiful landscapes. Existentialism and Postmodernism have made significant contributions, and they, in turn, have their own deep roots. Rev. Mark Musser, an expert on German Romanticism, Idealism, and Existentialism, has written at length in his book Nazi Oaks: The Green Sacrifice of the Judeo-Christian Worldview in the Holocaust, on the roles they played in shaping Nazism and later … [Read more...]
Solar: The Little Engine that Couldn’t
There are lots of dirty little secrets (though they're increasingly widely known!) about wind and solar power, the two darlings of "Green energy" lovers: high cost for low output, intermittency, production far below nameplate capacity, heavy dependence on subsidies, tendency for installations to lose efficient productive capacity long before they pay for themselves, chopped or incinerated birds, enormous waste of land, eyesores. But here's one about solar power I … [Read more...]
How Did America Become the World’s #1 Energy Producer?
The United States has been the world's #1 producer of natural gas for eight years now, and of oil for three---realities that are only slowly dawning on the broad public that still tends to think in terms of the olden days when Russia dominated the former and Saudi Arabia the latter. The result? Lower prices for Americans, yes. But also for people around the world. And less income for nasty regimes like the Saudis' Islamic fundamentalists (women can't drive or vote, thieves' hands are cut … [Read more...]
Do America’s Science Teachers and Students Need a Ministry of Truth?
Four liberal Democratic Senators---Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Elizabeth Warren (MA), Brian Schatz (HI), and Edward Markey (MA)---are upset because Education Secretary Betsy DeVos called President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement an "example of his commitment to rolling back the unrealistic and overreaching regulatory actions by the previous Administration." Thank heavens! These gallant Senators, painstakingly working to protect the American people, have taken … [Read more...]
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”—Yogi Berra
In his 1968 book The Population Bomb Paul Ehrlich predicted mass famines in America and lots of other countries around the world before 1980, and that we would run out of lots of minerals by then, too. His predictions turned out false. He remains the idol of environmentalists worldwide. In 2007 Al Gore predicted, "“The North Polar ice cap ... could be completely gone in summer in as little as seven years. Seven years from now.” That would have been 2014. In 2011, he said, “the entire North … [Read more...]
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