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Business as Usual at the Paris Climate Conference
As the world reels following the tragic terrorist attacks in Paris, world leaders say they are determined to press on with the U.N. Climate Conference there, scheduled for the end of this month. But judging from past international climate ...
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Hot Air on Climate Change in Lima
Every December since 1995, the United Nations has held a meeting of the countries that signed onto its 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change. This year, the 20th “Conference of the Parties” (“COP-20”) is another iteration, with officials (and anyone who wants ...
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The IPCC Political-Suicide Pill
On Friday, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is going to release its much-anticipated fifth “scientific assessment” of global warming. Like its 2007 predecessor, the document will be a ready poison pill for those contemplating political suicide.
Each ...
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My friends on the left make much of the apparent correlation between creationism and skepticism about assured climate disaster. It is the “some–all fallacy” writ large. “Some” climate scientists who happen to believe in intelligent ...
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Global Warming’s Corrupt Science
Climate science has painted itself into a corner, seriously damaging the public’s faith in the field — as precious a commodity as there is in civil society. Like lab rats that will do anything to keep the cocaine flowing, ...
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Now that health care is done (for the time being), expect global warming to be high on the Obama administration’s “to do” list. But cap-and-trade legislation and its alternative, a direct tax on carbon-based fuels, can&...
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Penn State’s Michael Mann seriously evades Climategate’s core issues in his self-defense in Friday’s Washington Post. He speaks about “decades of work by thousands of scientists around the world” that has been ...
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When it comes to climate change legislation, it’s hard to figure what the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer could possibly be thinking. Less than 48 hours after citizens in New Jersey and Virginia turned around the ...
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The Dog Ate Global Warming
Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates such as cap-and-trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this point be little more than a historical footnote, and President Obama would not ...
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Despite indications that much of President Obama’s agenda is meeting intra-party skepticism all over Capitol Hill, there is one policy nexus where congressional leaders are still doggedly determined to move the country left: energy and the environment. Speaker ...
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Earth Day, 2009: The More You Know, the Less You Care
What on Earth is going on in Washington? The public believes less and less that human beings are responsible for global warming, surface temperature shows no net change in over a decade, and there’s still a bill about ...
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Al Gore's Climate of Extremes
Ho-hum. On January 28, in the midst of a pelting sleet storm, Al Gore told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the end is nigh from global warming.He told the Senate that “some scientists” predict up to 11 degrees ...
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What is it with Al Gore? Why is he compelled to exaggerate climate change (excuse me, “the climate crisis”), and then to propose impossible policy responses? It’s like he’s inventing the Internet all over ...
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Later this week, President Bush hosts a summit of the world’s major economies on energy and climate change. The purpose is to hammer out some type of agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. The summit ...
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The last two weeks of July are normally the hottest of the year, so it’s no surprise that we’re being deluged with public-service announcements about the horrors of global warming. Radio and television stations are compelled ...
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No doubt about it, it’s been a good month for tornadoes even by the “spinny” standards of May, when most twisters occur. Even more predictable than the development of severe storms in spring, however, is the phenomenon of people ...
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If the Pope Wants to Have a Truly Moral Climate-Change Debate, Here Are a Few Ideas
Kudos to Pope Francis for calling a conference, scheduled for tomorrow, emphasizing the moral dimensions of climate change. It’s about time we took a clear and sober look at an issue that can cause so much harm to so ...
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Our Weird Energy Politics
What is it about the weather that compels our government to ineptly dictate how we produce electricity and consume energy? This a worthwhile question to ask on August 4, the anniversary of the day in 1977 that President James Earl Carter signed ...
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Global Warming and Energy Insanity
Rush Limbaugh hasn’t made a lot of green friends over the years with his “environmental wacko” tirades, but, given what’s going on these days, perhaps his rhetoric has been too mild.
Exhibit No. 1 is the sleek and sexy ...
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This year’s installment of the U.N.’s annual holiday party has come and gone from Cancun, with little to show for it except the massive carbon footprint of thousands of attendees — official delegates of member nations, ...
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Climategate, Copenhagen, Snowmageddon in the nation’s capital, the EPA ruling that CO2 endangers us all, and Senate Republicans pushing for a global-warming tax. Has it been a great run-up to Earth Day, or what?
Never has a public-policy ...
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A Blizzard of Global-Warming Hype
It had to happen. In the midst of the record snowfall in the East, some mainstream media outlet had to try to link this season’s unusual weather events to global warming.Time was the first news organization to ...
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Via Anthony Watts, a new study from Georgia Tech has some interesting findings:
“Across the U.S. as a whole, approximately 50 percent of the warming that has occurred since 1950 is due to land use changes (usually in the form of ...
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More 'Work' for the President
In the blame game, the Obama administration isn’t about to stop with Fox News. Instead, it’s moving on to lowly scientists.
Last month, President Obama gave a somewhat chilling, if somewhat ignored, speech on climate change ...
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Desperate Strategies for Desperate Times . . . and Post.
On August 18, both the New York Times and Washington Post featured uncharacteristically shrill top-of-masthead editorials demanding immediate climate-change legislation. The Post warned of an imminent geophysical “tipping point” because of global warming, while the Times went one better, ...
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The UN's Climate of Futility
Climate bureaucrats from 180 countries came together in Bonn, Germany, to craft yet another proposal to replace the UN’s failed Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Whatever comes out of the meeting will be up for formal adoption at an ...
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The U.N.'s Global Green Raw Deal
Day by day, our government is taking more and more control over once-private corporations, with plenty of green strings attached. GM will be required to produce more hybrid cars that people won’t buy. Employee compensation will be determined ...
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Will the U.N. Chill Out on Climate Change?
Ten thousand people from 86 countries have descended upon Poznan, Poland, for yet another United Nations meeting on climate change. It’s the annual confab of the nations that signed the original United Nations climate treaty in Rio in 1992. That ...
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This week marks 20 years since NASA’s James E. Hansen testified before a joint Congressional hearing that there was a strong “cause and effect” relationship between “current” climate conditions and emissions of carbon dioxide into ...
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This Sunday, Al Gore will probably win an Academy Award for his global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, a riveting work of science fiction.
#ad#The main point of the movie is that, unless we do something very serious, very soon ...
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece appears in the October 10, 2005, issue of National Review.
For years, I have been concerned that a major hurricane strike on New Orleans could provoke legislation on global warming that will do absolutely nothing ...
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Suppose a man who wrote the following ran for president of the United States and narrowly lost: Saving the environment is the “central organizing principle” for civilization, which “means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, ...