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
Archive for the ‘Global Warming’ Category
About Those Non-Disappearing Pacific Islands
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global WarmingThe Climate Police Blink
June 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Environment, Global Warming, Law, ObamaWell, 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
History of a Climate Con
April 14 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Global Warming, Obama, The LeftIf you don’t agree with the “global warming nay-sayers” here’s another angle that shouldn’t be a problem for anyone to understand. [One of the best recaps I have read.] ======== WSJ 4/13/2016 How’s this for an irony? As state attorneys general gin up a fake securities-fraud case against oil companies over climate change, starting with Exxon Mobil Corp., the Securities and Exchange Commission... Read more
What Kills More People Cold or Heat?
April 8 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming, Obama, ScienceSomething your mother probably never taught you. ========= WSJ 4/7/2016 By Bjorn Lomborg The Obama administration released a new report this week that paints a stark picture of how climate change will affect human health. Higher temperatures, we’re told, will be deadly—killing “thousands to tens of thousands” of Americans. The report is subtitled “A Scientific Assessment,” presumably to underscore its reliability. But the report... Read more
Bravo Nevada! “No!” to the ‘scam’
December 29 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Global WarmingI couldn’t agree more. Cut the subsidies!! ==== WSJ Dec. 28, 2015 6:47 p.m. Solar energy is no longer in its infancy, but the industry is refusing to grow up. See the tantrum the government-funded industry is throwing at Nevada’s rollback of its net-metering subsidy. Last week the Nevada Public Utilities Commission voted to sunset the state’s net metering program, which compensates customers who... Read more
The Illusions of Paris
December 13 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Global Warming, ObamaIts a religion, and worse than most religions. ====== WSJ 12/2/2015 The running melodrama of the world climate-change talks reassembled in Paris this week, and word from the worthies is that this time the 196 nations are poised for a momentous breakthrough. Well, not quite. The politicians want a deal so badly that they’ll accept anything that can pass as one, but it... Read more
