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Here’s NPR’s coverage of Rush Limbaugh’s ugly, distorted attack on New York Times climate change reporter Andrew Revkin: Innovative ‘Times’ Reporter Draws Limbaugh’s Ire. [Audio]
Rush Limbaugh, Ugliness, Hate Speech, Climate Change, Environment, Andrew Revkin
Andrew Revkin comments on Rush Limbaugh’s ugly remark that Revkin should commit suicide because he brought up the subject of birth control: Thought Experiments on Birth and Death. As I put it in the Wilson event: “Should you get credit — if we’re going to become carbon-centric — for ...
Rush Limbaugh, Ugliness, Hate Speech, Climate Change, Environment
A few weeks ago, New York Times environmental blogger Andrew Revkin made a relatively straightforward observation, that “more children equal more carbon dioxide emissions.” Revkin went on to suggest that family planning and contraception might be an important part of any plan to limit CO2 emissions: Are Condoms the Ultimate ...
Rush Limbaugh, Ugliness, Hate Speech, Climate Change, Environment
The Washington Examiner’s Mark Tapscott asks people on the right to dial down the rhetoric a little bit on the cap-and-trade bill. Could somebody please explain the difference between people on the Right calling the eight GOP congressmen who voted for the Obama-Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade anti-global warming energy bill “cap and ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Cap and Trade, Waxman-Markey, Environment, Mark Tapscott
Wired has a balanced look at the controversy around the Waxman-Markey “cap and trade” climate change bill passed last week by the House: Update: Climate Bill Clears House by Narrow Margin. Commonly referred to as the Waxman-Markey bill, after the original Democratic sponsors Henry Waxman of California and Edward ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Cap and Trade, Waxman-Markey, Environment
The Waxman-Markey climate change bill has passed the House, but faces an uncertain fate in the Senate. UPDATE at 6/26/09 4:34:28 pm: Some scientists are opposed to the bill — because they believe it’s weak legislation that won’t fix anything: Should Congress pass Waxman-Markey?
Climate Change, Global Warming, Cap and Trade, Waxman-Markey, Environment
The New York Times Magazine has a fascinating profile of renowned physicist Freeman Dyson, focusing on his skepticism about human-caused climate change: The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson. Dyson is well aware that “most consider me wrong about global warming.” That educated Americans tend to agree with the conclusion ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, AGW, Freeman Dyson, Environment, Science
Several people have emailed this article to me today, and it’s been posted in our spinoff links twice already: Rise of sea levels is ‘the greatest lie ever told’. The Telegraph’s Christopher Booker cites a Swedish “physicist,” Nils-Axel Mörner, who claims that every scientist and climate expert in the world ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, AGW, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Environment, Science
Joltin’ Joe Biden’s next job: making a case for carbon caps. PHILADELPHIA – The Obama administration is hoping to convince struggling Rust Belt and coal country states that the cap on carbon emissions they have long resisted as a threat to their livelihoods is actually the key to their ...
Another spot-on essay from Orson Scott Card: America Unplugged! Obama’s Cruel Tax on the Poor. It’s all in the name of Obama’s True Belief in Global Warming. He says it himself — he’ll take coal off the table as an “ideological matter.” Even if technology allows us to use ...
Just released via Fox News, a statement from Mike Carey, president of the Ohio Coal Association: The message from the Democratic candidate for President could not be clearer: the Obama-Biden ticket spells disaster for America’s coal industry and the tens of thousands of Americans who work in it. It’s ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Coal Industry, Economy, Environment
In an interview on Iowa Public TV in 2007, Barack Obama advocated sending “price signals” to middle class consumers in order to “change their behavior.” “Price signals” being an Orwellian code word for punitive taxes and fees. And Obama doesn’t seem to care much who it would hurt. [Video] (Hat ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Environment, Price Signals, Orwell
This speaks for itself. [Video] Let me sort of describe my overall policy. What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there. I was the first to call for a ...
There’s an interesting debate going on about the extent to which melting glaciers contribute to the rise of sea levels; here’s an article at Scientific American that tries to make sense of the conflicting opinions: A Deep Thaw: How Much Will Vanishing Glaciers Raise Sea Levels?
Here’s another good episode of Penn and Teller’s Bullsh*t! (Something tells me this one won’t get the same kind of reaction as their debunking of creationism.)
There’s an eye-opening report today at the web site of the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007. Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major ...
According to the DailyTech blog, the NASA temperature data used to estimate the advance of global warming has been shown to be way off the mark, due to a Y2K bug in the graphing software—and the corrected charts tell a very different story: Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate ...
Penn and Teller take a look at America’s favorite pastime: the separation of garbage into its component elements for no discernible benefit. (It’s Penn and Teller, so do I need to mention there’s a language warning?) [Video removed by Google.]
Environment, Global Warming, Climate Change, Recycling, Penn and Teller
Agence France Presse berates Chinese media for failing to join Western media in a barrage of hysterical, alarmist articles on the highly questionable UN report on global warming: China media downplays UN climate change report. The word “barrage” is no exaggeration. There are currently more than 3,000 news articles online ...
Environment, Global Warming, Climate Change, United Nations, MSM, Mainstream Media, China
At a London conference on climate change, scientists have identified one of the root causes of terrorism: global warming. (Hat tip: nonic.) And to support this diagnosis, UK chief scientist John Mitchell cites the studies of the noted environmentalist, Osama bin Laden. John Mitchell, chief scientist at Britain’s Met Office, ...
Environment, Global Warming, Climate Change, Terrorism, Osama bin Laden