This Week: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project In recent months, global warming alarmists have lamented that they need to do a better job communicating to the public. Apparently, they have found their voice in: argumentum ad hominem. Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway have authored a new book titled “Merchants […]
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THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project EPA has carefully prepared a trap, but will it trap itself? It has played hard ball in its Endangerment Finding that carbon dioxide emissions “endanger human health and welfare.“ But faced with the hard reality that Copenhagen was a failure, public enthusiasm […]
The Heartland Institute’s Fourth International Conference on Climate Change will be held in Chicago, Illinois on May 16-18, 2010 at the Chicago Marriott Magnificent Mile Hotel, 540 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. It will call attention to new scientific research on the causes and consequences of climate change, and to economic analyses of the cost and […]
Quote of the Week “Today’s debate about global warming is essentially a debate about freedom. The environmentalists would like to mastermind each and every possible (and impossible) aspect of our lives.”—Â Vaclav Klaus, President, Czech Republic,Blue Planet in Green Shackles The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is launching a new web site,www.NIPCCreport.org. It is […]
April 22, 2010 was the 40th anniversary of the first modern Earth Day. (No doubt a form of earth day was worshiped many times by primitive cultures.) Contrary to the expressed beliefs of many activists who participated in the first modern Earth Day, the planet is doing well. Humanity is thriving except in areas in […]
The Climategate cover-up continues. It is becoming increasingly obvious that the panels that are investigating the Climategate emails are avoiding investigating the actual science and the effect that activities revealed by Climategate had on the science. Many reasons, valid or not, can be given for this failure. But until the scientific issues are fully addressed, […]
Last week’s TWTW contained Fred Singer’s science editorial on the report from the UK House of Commons Select Committee investigating ClimateGate. Fred termed the report a “whitewash.” Fred’s editorial was also carried on “Watts Up With That” blog by Anthony Watts. Richard S. Courtney, who generally agrees with Fred’s views, took exception to the term […]
Quote of the Week “In Nature’s infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.” Soothsayer in Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare As the winter weather continues to rage in much of the Northern Hemisphere in ways not expected, this week we have not witnessed any new, remarkable revelations on ClimateGates we saw over the […]
I try to answer as many enquiries as I can from people who want to discuss “global warming”. I wrote this letter in reply to a “global warming” fanatic who, it is not unfair to say, had never actually thought about the superstition to which he subscribes. Perhaps this letter will make him think a […]
In the West it is almost universally held that all oil and gas is derived from fossils. This is not the case elsewhere, particularly among Russian and Ukrainian scientists who have, over several generations, tenaciously propounded the notion that oil and gas are abiotic, can be found deep below the surface of the earth in […]
The Week That Was (February 20, 2010) Brought to you by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) Quote of the Week Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. -Dandamis, Indian Sage c. 400 BC Perhaps the major environmental news of the week was a friendly interview of Phil […]
Forget all you’ve heard about unprecedented global warming; global warming so rapid it can’t be natural but must be anthropogenic; global warming threatening to devastate economies, ecosystems, and perhaps even human civilization itself; global warming on which “the science is settled” and “the debate is over.” Forget it all.