Mark Landsbaum

Mark Landsbaum, B.A. (Journalism), is a retired investigative reporter (Los Angeles Times) and editorial columnist (Orange County Register) covering, among other things, climate change since the 1990s. He is a former Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Biola University, and a board member for Hope Women’s Center in McKinney, TX.

Will Sea Levels Rise?

There’s a lot of scaremongering by global warming alarmists who want your money and to control your lives. One of the more popular scare stories is that global warming will make sea levels rise to the point that coastal cities will drown and islands disappear. Remember the ridiculous “documentary” by Al Gore? It won an

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California’s High-speed Rail Won’t Solve Climate Change—or Move Many People, Either

One of the greatest absurdities of the so-called Green New Deal proposed then backed away from by socialist-inclined Democrats, is the idea that the nation’s  transportation needs can be met by building high-speed rail everywhere – and getting rid of cars and airplanes. This utopian nonsense supposedly is rooted in a desire to “do something

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Socialist “Green New Deal” Laughably Ridiculous

We’re told global warming gives us only 5, 10, 12 more years (depending on the doomsayer) before the planet is irretrievably doomed. “Therefore, act now!” alarmists demand. Of course, they’ve been saying the same thing for 10, 20, 25 years.  It’s become impossible to spoof these people…  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist Green Deal is so

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Earth Day and the Bizarro World of Climate Alarmism

Much of the world celebrated Earth Day last Sunday. No one did it more enthusiastically than global warming alarmists. Global warming alarmists, like their ideological kin Progressives and Leftists, look at the world differently. More conservative types, like yours truly, don’t exactly view reality through rose-colored glasses. I’m no Pollyanna. I concede we occupy a

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