Tag: "Climate Change"
Al Gore Makes Hay While the Corpses Rot in Burma
Al Gore used to be merely a shameless shill, enriching himself while demanding that the rest of the world impoverish itself and wrapping himself in a cloak of Messianic imperviousness. Now he’s gone straight to full-on ghoul. Former Vice President Al Gore in an interview on NPR’s May 6 “Fresh Air” broadcast did just that. [...]
Who Doesn’t Want Cheap Energy? Plenty of Folks.
Victor David Hanson muses and I have a bit of an answer. With the world’s largest reserves of coal, after creating the nuclear power industry ex nihilo, and with billions of oil still under our soil and waters, it makes no sense to produce less energy while blaming and taxing those who produce what we [...]
Breaking News: Global Warming Now Includes a Natural Cooling Trend of Ten Years. And the Ten Years Before That, Too.
When we last checked in on the actual science of global warming, we found that the planet hasn’t actually been warming over the past ten years and that this past year’s cooling completely wiped out the entire warming trend for the past century. Don’t worry, though. This year’s sure to bring back the warming, right? [...]
Please Stop the Biofuel Idiocy.
Okay, so Mark Steyn wasn’t just blowing smoke after all. WASHINGTON (AP) – Some top international food scientists Tuesday recommended halting the use of food-based biofuels, such as ethanol, saying it would cut corn prices by 20 percent during a world food crisis. But even as the scientists were calling for a moratorium, President Bush [...]
The New Menace: Global Warming Will Give You HIV
It looks like the Cult of Global Warming is racheting up the panic factor another notch. Jammie Wearing Fool brings us the story from Down Under where a new fear has been hurled at us. Global Warming is going to give us all HIV! Ace is asking what new hell this is. Well, it’s the [...]
Killing Poor People in the Name of Climate Change
There are times when Mark Steyn’s columns are merely the most witty and engaging you are likely to read these days. Then, there are times when he lays aside the jests and turns his talent toward cutting through the fog and clutter around an issue like a white hot flame until the core is laid [...]
Out: Polar Bears; In: Musk Oxen and Narwhals?
Once upon a time, the poor cute polar bear was the public face of the coming global warming apocalypse. They were dying, we were told, drowning because the floes of ice on which their survival depended were melting away. Okay, we did have to look over the fact that polar bears are pretty much the [...]
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