Archive for the ‘Global Warming’ Category

A Libel Suit Threatens Catastrophe

February 6 | Posted by mrossol | Global Warming, Law, Losing Freedom, Politically correct

If the left wants to take off the gloves, perhaps that is what should happen. ===== By MICHAEL A. CARVIN and ANTHONY DICK WSJ Feb. 5, 2017 8:16 p.m. ET The First Amendment provides robust protection for political and scientific debate, but it faces a new threat from a climate activist determined to silence his critics. In a case pending before the District of... Read more

What Al Gore told Trump

December 11 | Posted by mrossol | Global Warming, Party Politics, Science

==== WSJ 12/10/2016 During the decades we’ve been waiting for actual climate data to validate or invalidate our climate models (we’re still waiting), at least one phenomenon has been reliably observed. This is the political domestication and cooptation of the once-vexing global warming hypothesis. A pioneering shaman of this transmutation was BP CEO John Browne, who in the 1990s declared his company... Read more

Green Elites Face Trump Threat

November 15 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming, Science

I do hope Mr Trump gets into this space. ====== WSJ 11/9/2016 Whatever you think of Donald Trump, his candidacy represents an important opportunity. It’s a chance to dismiss a very particular elite about whom it could be said, borrowing from Cromwell, “For any good you have been doing . . . in the name of God, go!” We are referring, of course, to... Read more

The Phony War Against CO2

November 5 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming

“Every human being exhales about two pounds of CO2 a day…” ============== By Rodney W. Nichols And Harrison H. Schmitt National polls show that climate change is low on the list of voters’ priorities. For good reason: In the U.S., and for much of the world, the most dangerous environmental pollutants have been cleaned up. U.S. emissions of particulates, metals and varied gases—all... Read more

About Those Non-Disappearing Pacific Islands

October 18 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming

WSJ 10/14/2016 By Bjorn Lomborg Once a year or so, journalists from major news outlets travel to the Marshall Islands, a remote chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, to report in panicked tones that the island nation is vanishing because of climate change. Their dispatches are often filled with raw emotion and suggest that residents are fleeing... Read more

The Climate Police Blink

June 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Environment, Global Warming, Law, Obama

Well, well. Where are all the “News Releases!”? ======= WSJ 6-16-2016 The Climate Police Blink There are few more rewarding sights than a bully scorned, so let’s hear it for the recent laments of Attorneys General Claude Walker (Virgin Islands) and Eric Schneiderman (New York), two ringleaders of the harassment campaign against Exxon and free-market think tanks over climate change. Consider Mr. Walker’s recent retreat... Read more

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