The New York Times must have a guilty conscience about the continuous distortions of the news that appear in its pages. Evidence of this guilt is provided everyday in The Times’ claim that its “news and editorial departments do not coordinate coverage and maintain a strict separation in staff and management.” That claim is necessary only because
In my last article, I urged everyone to say no to the hideous looking fluorescent light bulbs the environmentalists plan to force on us in the name of fighting global warming and “saving the planet.” I described the light bulbs as an entering wedge for further demands adding up to the sacrifice of our entire standard of living. Here’s the kind of
If you’d prefer to be cool rather than suffer in the heat, what you need to do, according to the environmental movement, is smash your air conditioner, refrigerator, and freezer. That will help to cool the planet—someday. If you want to be secure from hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and other natural (according to it, manmade) disasters, what you
Very broadly speaking, the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change holds the following position: Use of fossil fuels adds ominously to the CO2 in the atmosphere, as well as to other ‘greenhouse gases’. These anthropogenic additions ‘force’ temperatures further up — to deleterious levels. There follow various consequences to (eg) marine life,
For information: [I have posted this elsewhere ] ------------------------------------ Apropos of climate studies: Here is Dr Roger Pielke Sr on a recent paper in the Journal of Climate. The paper used “high resolution weather prediction models”. For “the eastern United States”, these regional models “predicted” very much higher temperatures
For years, the environmentalists have been trying to have it both ways, claiming that in the midst of the global warming that they allege, Europe might suffer an ice age. According to this scenario, ships would sail through an ice-free Arctic Ocean but be unable to unload their cargos in the ice-bound ports of Northern Europe. What was alleged to
In what has to be the most telling example of the desire of government to use violence as its primary means to any end, officials in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Maryland and Ontario, Canada, have destroyed over 20 million ash trees in an attempt to slow the spread of the Emerald Ash Borer. The larvae of this voracious Asian pest — first identified in
Forty-Five nations joined France in calling for a new environmental body to slow global warming and protect the planet, a body that potentially could have policing powers to punish violators.— AP, Feb. 5, 2007 AP reports that the French effort was “led by French President Jacques Chirac,” after the release of the report on global warming prepared
Czech President Vaclav Klaus - according to a report posted on Drudge - actually came out and told the Environmentalist Emperor he really ought to put some clothes on. Bravo! President of Czech Republic Calls Man-Made Global Warming a ‘Myth’ - Questions Gore’s Sanity Mon Feb 12 2007 09:10:09 ET Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN
As detailed here , no expensive and ill-used, Western aid, no high tech inputs, no government planning, no Malthusian doom — just a simple tale of human ingenuity, incentivised by the small matter of better property rights, overcoming an ecological disaster. From colonial times, all trees in Niger had been regarded as the property of the state,
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