The Week That Was (February 6, 2010) Brought to you by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) Quote of the Week “If the IPCC wasn’t there, why would anyone be worried about climate change?” Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Science, February 5, 2010 THIS WEEK:Â The Washington region is being hit by another […]
Category: Energy and Environment
The race is on to claim the title of “most efficient coal-fired power plant” on the planet. However, it’s tricky identifying finalists because of the widespread misuse of the term “efficiency” and all those nagging assumptions. Let’s first establish clear definitions and then identify the title contenders. Most utilities will cover rising demand for electricity […]
The Week That Was January 30, 2010 Brought to you by SEPP (http://www.sepp.org/) Quote of the WeekI am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy. Bertrand Russell, Icarus, or the Future of Science, 1925 Less than two months ago, before the […]
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” Adam Smith The Week That Was January 23, 2010 Brought to you by SEPP (http://www.sepp.org/) This week we witnessed a further expansion of Climategate. The Sunday Times reported how a 1999 telephone call with a reporter in which one person speculated that the […]
“If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.” Richard Feynman *************************************************** The Week That Was January 16, 2010 Brought to you by SEPP (http://www.sepp.org/) For much of the Northern Hemisphere, the cold is abating. As climate scientists long realized, a short period does not create a […]
Cornwall Alliance You know the wheels are falling off the manmade global warming bandwagon when even the mainstream media begin publishing reports of major scientists who challenge it. The UK’s MailOnline did just that this week under the headline The mini ice age starts here. Lead paragraph? “The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern […]
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Poor Al Gore
Getting it Right! by Andrea Lafferty Imagine building your whole career upon the boogieman of “global warming” and then finding out that it’s been based on falsified and suppressed information on climate change? Poor Al Gore must be sweating it out over the Climategate emails and documents posted on the internet in November 2009 – just […]
The public tends to trust “Science” to tell us the truth. Put a lab coat and a stethoscope on someone and we tend to trust them more than we normally would trust a stranger. Society respects the hard work that was required to earn that lab coat, whether a true scientist is wearing it or […]
The exposure of thousands of emails, computer code, and other documents from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia last month demonstrates widespread corruption among leading climate alarmist scientists around the world. The documents show that these scientists have been fabricating, cherry-picking, fudging, hiding, destroying, and otherwise abusing data; intimidating dissenting […]
Cornwall Alliance An Evangelical Examination of the Theology, Science, and Economics of Global Warming EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe world is in the grip of an idea: that burning fossil fuels to provide affordable, abundant energy is causing global warming that will be so dangerous that we must stop it by reducing our use of fossil fuels, no […]
EXCLUSIVE RightSideNews.com On October 30th, Lord Christopher Monckton and former U.N. ambassador John Bolton appeared across the table from one another on Glenn Beck’s Fox News television program. If you haven’t yet seen the program, the segments can be viewed here. The conversation between Monckton and Bolton remained quite friendly, but an interesting dichotomy emerged […]
Take That, Al Baby! Monckton Makes It to the Glenn Beck Radio Program…and Beyond Glenn Beck’s third hour of radio this morning delivered a significant blow to the international treaty President Obama is expected to sign in Copenhagen in early December. Mr. Beck spoke for approximately fifteen minutes with Lord Christoper Monckton. A former advisor […]