Category: Climate Change

Dreaming Of A Green Christmas: Present Wrapping, Plastic Bags, Greenest Retailers

Posted on by William Teach

And the hit parade of eco-nuts doing their best to ruin Christmas – well, really, they try and ruin every day – continues. First up If a group of Watsonville environmentalists have their way, the newspaper you read today will be under a Christmas tree next Saturday. No, they’re not asking you to give your […]

 

‘Snowfalls Are Now Just a Thing of the Past’

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

That was a headline that ran in England’s Independent newspaper in 2000; this year, snow has been so heavy in England that it’s closed their major airports for long stretches. In early 2010, Time magazine, responding to resurgent snow in America’s capital would take the exact opposite stance: “DC Snowstorm: How Global Warming Makes Blizzards Worse.”

Is there nothing that global warming can’t do

 

AGW Irony Today: Guess What Got Called Off Due To Global Warming Snow?

Posted on by William Teach

No, no, guess first. Don’t skip to to the excerpt. Guess. Hey! No peeking! OK, ready? VAL D’ISERE, France — The women’s World Cup super-G in Val d’Isere has been called off due to heavy snowfall. Heavy snow fell overnight and continued into Friday morning. Organizers had hoped to hold the race in the afternoon […]

 

Climate Alarmists Love Solar So Much That They Have To Stop It

Posted on by William Teach

How many times have I mentioned that climate alarmists are continuously talking about the need for alternative energy sources, yet, when push comes to shove, they’ll go and attempt to block any construction of solar, wind and hydrothermal energy plants? They’ll protest, gnash their teeth, file lawsuits, and be general pains in the rear end. […]

 

Today’s “Babies Are Bad For Climate Change” Story

Posted on by William Teach

The alarmists just cannot help themselves, including over at Treehugger: Is Birth Control the Cheapest Answer to Climate Change? From overpopulation as the elephant in the room, to the idea that less sex and more TV might be the answer to India’s growing birth rate, overpopulation isn’t exactly a taboo subject here on TreeHugger–but it […]

 

Enviroweenies Today: ULP, Earthquakes, Childfree For Gaia

Posted on by William Teach

I was tempted to name the post AGW Stupidity Today, but, really, everyday is stupidity day in climate alarmist and enviroweenie world, starting with Treehugger: Urban Light Pollution Boosts Air Pollution Living in Manhattan, where on a good night you only see a couple stars in the sky and it’s never truly dark due to […]

 

Obviously, Denial Of Globull Warming Is Like Denial Of Hitler

Posted on by William Teach

I’m tempted to use the malodorous phrase “jumping the shark”, a phrase I detest, for this next bit of climaidiocy, yet, the climate change hoax has continued on long after Happy Days finally ended beyond the Fonzie jumps the shark episode, and Happy Days wasn’t broadcasting idiocy daily. Case in point In 1933 Winston Churchill […]

 

Countries Agree To Redistribute Wealth For Climate Change, As Snow Collapses Metrodome

Posted on by William Teach

Big doings in exotic Cancun, doings which highlight exactly what this whole farce is all about Delegates from 193 nations agreed Saturday on a new global framework to help developing countries curb their carbon output and cope with the effects of climate change, but they postponed the harder question of precisely how industrialized and major […]

 

Ethanol Subsidies Show Why Washington Is Broken

Posted on by William Teach

Interesting revelations from the Investors Business Daily Here’s the bottom line for the ethanol tax credits additive to the White House-GOP tax compromise: – $6 billion in subsidies for 2011. – $10 per extra gallon of ethanol. – $14 million per extra job. – $1.2 billion to attract one extra Senate vote. In a season […]

 

Christmas In Britain Could Be Cancelled Due To Winter Global Warming

Posted on by William Teach

From UK’s Metro Festivities are facing a white-out with the return of snow next week and Arctic conditions set to continue beyond the 25th. It means drivers are being warned not to travel in the run-up to Christmas, when millions hit the roads to visit relatives or to do last-minute shopping. Chaos across the transport […]

 

Liberals Want Sex Industry To Go Green And “Ethical”

Posted on by William Teach

That’s what the moonbats at Grist want to know. After a long, long, long recitation of all the evils in Big Sex (you just know they’ll have to call it that soon), they come up with Individuals selling sex to others is, of course, just a small part of the sex economy. Far from being […]

 

Could “Developing” Countries Be Paid To Not Cut Their Trees Down?

Posted on by William Teach

Remember when developing countries were referred to as third world rat holes, er, countries? And how they have been “developing” for going on 20-30 years? Countries where many of the peasants need to cut down trees in order to survive? And the countries use the trees to continue “developing”? Well, now For years, policymakers and […]

 

AGW Today: Marshall Islands Could Disappear Due To Sea Rise

Posted on by William Teach

Unshockingly, this breathless report comes from a reporter in…….exotic Cancun, Mexico, rather than from the Marshall Islands CANCUN, Mexico — Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one sliver of an island in two. “It’s getting worse,” says Kaminaga Kaminaga, […]

 

UN Climate Summit, Cancun, Mexico: Climate Conmen Sending You Back 100 Years

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As most of you know last week I was down in Cancun, Mexico reporting on the U.N. Climate Change Summit (officially called COP16/CMP6). It was several days of sun, surf, and U.N. conmen. I am back in the saddle here at home but Friday I went from the warm white sands of Cancun back to […]

 

Poor Countries Whining They Are Excluded From Exotic Cancun Climate Talks

Posted on by William Teach

Poor little babies, can’t get in on all the moolah and the awesome buffets The UN climate negotiations are weighted heavily against the poorest countries, who cannot send delegates to key meetings, often do not understand what is being said and are unable keep up with the decisions being taken in their name, a report […]

 

Wacked: UN Climate Change Talks Start With Appeal To Mayan Goddess

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

Yet one more from the Dept. of You Can’t Make This Up: With United Nations climate negotiators facing an uphill battle to advance their goal of reducing emissions linked to global warming, it’s no surprise that the woman steering the talks appealed to a Mayan goddess Monday. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework […]

 

Climate Hysteria Today: Why, Yes, England’s Snow And Cold Is Caused By Climate Change

Posted on by William Teach

It’s simply amazing what greenhouse gases can do, isn’t it? From jolly ole England As a blanket of snow settles across the country, train services grind to a halt and roads become impassable, you could be forgiven for thinking that global warming seems more remote than ever. But yesterday, the World Meteorological Organisation announced that […]

 

The Con in Cancun: UN Climate Change Summit Update

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I am here in Cancun, Mexico investigating the U.N. Climate Change Conference to see what sort of wonderful solutions to save our very planet are being planned for all of us here in sunny Mexico. It’s always nice that we can come to save the planet… at a nice resort hotel complex… on a beach… […]

 

Snap! GOP To Kill House Climate Alarmism Panel

Posted on by William Teach

I can just picture Nancy P. stomping her ruby slippers and screaming “they can’t do this!!!!1!!!!” Republicans will eliminate the House committee created by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to highlight the threat of climate change, Representative James Sensenbrenner, the top Republican on the panel, said today. I actually think this is a bad move. Instead of […]

 

U.S. Should Not Repeat Germany’s Wind Power Mistake

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Before the U.S. Congress commits any more taxpayer dollars, it is time to look realistically and with a jaundiced eye at “green energy” policies being touted by the Obama administration.: : There are very expensive examples around the world showing:  these “green” energy technologies to be abysmal failures.:  The new Republican Congress should reconsider, defund and halt […]

 

Dispatches From The Climate Conference In Exotic Cancun

Posted on by William Teach

Welcome to sunny, wonderful, exotic Cancun, where the water is warm, the drinks are cool, and airports are very busy! Via Campesina will bring 4,000 Mexicans — indigenous peoples, farmers and their allies to Cancun, and a few hundred from the Global South. The Bolivian government is flying in 90 people, and Venezuela is flying […]

 

UN Climate Summit: The Con in Cancun

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In but a few hours I’ll be headed to Chicago’s O’Hare airport to wing my way to sunny Cancun to do a few days reporting on the U.N. Climate Change Summit. As is my luck in life, sunny Cancun will be rainy Cancun if the weatherman is to be believed. Of course, weather reports aren’t […]

 

Global Warming “Con Artists” Try Again at Cancun Climate Conference

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Liberals allow themselves to turn the: truth:  upside down, inside out and out of sight when they: have money to make: for their “cause.” : Heavens: and earth shall: be moved if “they” determine to “right” a wrong.:  So try to envision the many layers of hypocrisy going on right now in Cancun, Mexico, where every liberal or liberal “pet project” […]

 

Are The Climate Alarmists Giving Up On CO2?

Posted on by William Teach

The Washington Post highlights the potential change in tactics by the alarmists (in order to continue on the path for more control of people and economies, along with redistribution of wealth, especially to their own pockets, ala Al Gore) Many policymakers and business leaders have come to see the most basic method of slowing global […]

 

NY Times Hypocrisy Watch: We’ll Publish Wikileaks Info, But Not ClimateGate

Posted on by William Teach

Powerline makes an interesting observation The New York Times is participating in the dissemination of the stolen State Department cables that have been made available to it in one way or another via WikiLeaks. My friend Steve Hayward recalls that only last year the New York Times ostentatiously declined to publish or post any of […]

 

Snap! Supermodel Says Manmade Globull Warming Causes Everything!

Posted on by William Teach

Sadly, you can’t really call be too critical of her, because actual scientists and people in the know hold the same idiotic notions: Helena Christensen calls for action on climate change The supermodel, who is a global ambassador for Oxfam, visited villages in the foothills of the Himalayas to see first hand the effect of […]

 

UN IPCC official on Climate Change: A scam to steal from the rich to give to the poor

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

Well, the cat’s out of the bag now. We all knew that the guys who couldn’t tell us if it’s going to rain tomorrow were full of it when it came to their dire warnings of impending disaster due to “climate change”. All the hysteria had but one goal – wealth and resource redistribution. If […]

 

Spain Learns That Solar Really, Really Needs Government Handouts

Posted on by William Teach

Apparently, without government money, solar power might not even be able to power its own life support The Spanish government has launched a new regulatory framework that will result in subsidized tariffs for ground-mounted solar energy projects drop 45% this year, killing future investment in the trade, which industry leaders expect will be frozen in […]