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Posts Tagged ‘global warming’

• Night of the Living Dead Idea

  Posted February 5th, 2010 at 3:00pm in Energy and Environment, Protect America with 2 comments

  The Department of Homeland Security’s Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) is out. Like the Pentagon’s QDR it is supposed to detail future threats and how our government will deal with them. This report, also like the QDR (and the annual assessment of the Director of National Intelligence), includes the obligatory reference to global warming. The [...] More

• Climate Change Scientific Consensus Cloudy as Ever

  Posted February 4th, 2010 at 12:55pm in Energy and Environment with 8 comments

  We’re a few days before a massive snowstorm whitewashes the District of Columbia, but the Climategate and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change storms are already here and as fierce as ever. Earlier this week, The Guardian shed a little more light on the flawed and hidden data from University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit: The [...] More

• Government’s Out-of-Step Agitprop on Global Warming

  Posted February 3rd, 2010 at 5:00pm in Protect America with 4 comments

  Listening to Washington, you would never know that today’s hot topics include Climategate, Glaciergate, and an increasingly bitter debate about what we really know about our capacity to accurately forecast global climate change. In his State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama asserted that there is “overwhelming scientific evidence on climate [...] More

• Rapidly Melting Credibility

  Posted February 1st, 2010 at 2:00pm in Energy and Environment with 5 comments

  The Washington Post asks: “Recently, a U.N. scientific report was found to have included a false conclusion about the melting of Himalayan glaciers. That followed the release of stolen e-mails last year, which showed climate scientists commiserating over problems with their data. Is there a broader meaning in these two incidents, and should they cause [...] More

• Bin Laden Goes Green

  Posted February 1st, 2010 at 1:24pm in American Leadership, Energy and Environment, Protect America with 2 comments

  Since running away at Tora-Bora, Bin Laden has mainly served as al Qaeda “propagandist in chief.” His main task is to make al Qaeda appear relevant. Osama spin is reflected through his video and audio tapes in two ways. First, al Qaeda’s chief makes veiled and vague threats; that way if something happens he can take [...] More

• Obama’s Attempt to Revive Cap and Trade

  Posted January 28th, 2010 at 5:33pm in Energy and Environment with 10 comments

  President Obama gave his first State of the Union speech last night and while his delivery reminded many Americans of the man they saw on the campaign trail, his rhetoric was much of the same. Although the president did call for offshore drilling and an expansion of nuclear, his focus was clean energy jobs. He [...] More

• Obama Is No Kennedy: Redefines NASA’s Mission As Global Warming

  Posted January 27th, 2010 at 4:11pm in Ongoing Priorities with 11 comments

  Today, the Orlando Sentinel reports that President Obama will introduce a budget next week which will cut future exploration funding from NASA, including the planned missions to the Moon and Mars set in motion following the Columbia disaster.  On first glance, this may appear to be a budget cutting move to fall in line with [...] More

• New Year, Same Story: Global Warming Dead Last on America’s Priority List

  Posted January 26th, 2010 at 11:55am in Energy and Environment with 2 comments

  The wheels have been falling off the global warming bandwagon well before Climategate and the recent hole-poking of the much trumpeted Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report. In a national survey last January by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, global warming ranked 20th out of 20 as far as [...] More

• More Global Warming Gaffes

  Posted January 22nd, 2010 at 5:43pm in Energy and Environment with 5 comments

  First, hackers leaked e-mails and other documents from some of the world’s leading climate scientists detailing how they refused to share data, plotted to keep dissenting scientists from getting published in leading journals and discarded original data. Next, United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) admitted the Himalayan glaciers won’t disappear by 2035 and that [...] More

• Cold Feet on Climate … and the EPA

  Posted January 20th, 2010 at 5:03pm in Energy and Environment with 0 comments

  Yesterday, as if he knew the results of the Massachusetts Senate race, retiring Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) ruled out the possibility of the Senate considering a cap-and-trade bill. The reluctance of the Senate to take up a comprehensive global warming bill coincides with increasing public skepticism. Despite these obvious warning signs that global [...] More