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Earth Day Scaremonger

I’m a little behind on the Earf Day stuff, but here’s John Stossel: Every Earth Day brings out new scaremongering from silly people. This year, one scare is that BPA, a chemical in plastic, causes “obesity, breast cancer, to prostate cancer, diabetes, brain disorders, such as attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder, liver disease, ovarian disease, disease [...]

No domestic drilling worse than domestic drilling.

Below are some very interesting points made by Univ. of California Professor Eric Smith: From 1971 to 2000, offshore facilities and pipelines were responsible for only 2 percent of the oil in U.S. waters. The bulk of it (63 percent) came from natural seepage, and 22 percent came from municipal and industrial runoff. Worldwide, natural [...]

Oppose Obamamessiah and you’re a pariah.

[ABC NEWS] ABC News Thomas Giusto and Lindsey Ellerson report: Conservative author Jason Mattera launched a relentless revolt today against President Obama and the leftist agenda, mocking Obama loyalists during remarks made at the Conservative Political Action Conference. … Not only did Mattera hit Obama for his acknowledged drug use as a youth, but he [...]

The academic fraud after The Day After Tomorrow.

I had a laugh out loud moment this Sunday night, flipping channels and stopping on the FX network showing (yet again) of The Day After Tomorrow, an apocalyptic global warming movie filled with gratuitous scenes of our destruction. I imagine the folks at FX programming probably would never have guessed that this weekend one of [...]

More global warming scandals.

[AFP] The Netherlands has asked the UN climate change panel to explain an inaccurate claim in a landmark 2007 report that more than half the country was below sea level, the Dutch government said Friday. According to the Dutch authorities, only 26 percent of the country is below sea level, and the Intergovernmental Panel on [...]

Lies, damn lies & global warming.

Following the ClimateGate scandal the global warming scaremongers couldn’t get more unhinged, could they? Get a load of these recent articles putting the warmers in the spotlight. You can’t make this stuff up, except, well, they did make it up. UK Times: The United Nations’ expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing [...]

Speculation, not science.

What’s remarkable about this article is just how unapologetic and brazen the UN is about making claims — and thus promoting expensive, uneconomic policies — that aren’t remotely based on science. This is precisely the pattern that was fortified from the ClimateGate e-mails. [Wall Street Journal] An influential United Nations panel is facing growing criticism [...]

$35.51 gas tax per gallon?

Here’s Skeptical Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg on the folly of trying to reduce carbon emissions: Two points underlie the issue of global warming: First, developing nations have no intention of letting the developed world force them to stop using carbon-emitting fuels. They are understandably wary of any policy that might curtail the domestic economic growth that [...]

Criminals promoting Green tax.

It’s already a problem in Europe, but it could be crossing the Atlantic soon, if Congressional leaders like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have their way. Some Democrats are now promoting the European-style value-added tax (or VAT) to collect revenue. After all, Democrats never found a tax they didn’t like. But it has the unintended [...]

Green = Red.

Environmentalism is about cash. We’ll start with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ridiculous press conference earlier this month that must have left people wondering if the Governator was preparing for his next action movie role. Mimicking the global warming doomsayers via afantasy Armageddon scenario (read: The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, etc.)  Schwarzenegger presented his constituents a map of [...]