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

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 […]

 

Snap! GOP To Kill House Climate Alarmism Panel

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

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

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

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

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” […]

 


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

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 […]

 


Spain Learns That Solar Really, Really Needs Government Handouts

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 […]

 


Fred Upton Saying All The Right Things About Energy

You remember Fred, right? He’s the Republican that pushed through legislation to ban most incandescent light bulbs. Now, though Rep. Fred Upton told E2 Thursday that he would not steer a sweeping energy measure through the panel if he becomes chairman. ??That would be a sharp contrast to current Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who moved […]

 



Climate Change Will Make Chocolate Unaffordable Or Something

Time to break out the crystal balls again: Global Warming Could Lead to Vast Chocolate Shortage (via Steven Goddard) In a world that takes for granted the availability of delicious and affordable chocolate, it’s easy to forget that the popular product actually comes from trees — not magical elves or free-flowing cocoa rivers, sadly. But, […]

 

Sunday Funnies: NY Times Editorial Board Tells GOP To Try Governing

Liberals have long been having fits on the editorial pages, ranging anywhere from Hissy to Conniption to Unhinged Tools. Saturday’s full feeling of the paper is wacky and unhinged enough to make one go WharrblGarbl! Try Something Hard: Governing Yeah, it can be hard, which is why a man with virtually no real world experience, […]

 

How To Stop Globull Warming – Even If You Think It’s Mule Fritters

Somehow, this Washington Post article, meant for publication on Sunday the 14th, is available on-line, and it is a hoot! How to stop global warming – even if you don’t believe in it In the global-warming debate, scientists are, admirably, still trying to save the day. Last week, the American Geophysical Union announced plans to […]

 


AGW Today: Republicans Are Scary, CO2 Kills Fisherman, Save The Seals!

Poor, poor, climate alarmists, things are not going well for them After last week’s election the U.S. Congress is now a place where climate change is questioned more than feared. According to ThinkProgress.org, a progressive blog by the Center for American Progress, half of the newly elected Republicans don’t believe in man-made climate change while […]

 

UN Links Weath And Happiness To Man-caused Global Warming

You can probably guess which way they’ll go, I’m sure The globalization of the consumer society and global warming are quickly becoming the two biggest threats to future wealth and happiness, according to the United Nations. I’m sure people would be much happier to live like it is, well, hell, there’s been trade around the […]

 



Will GOP Go After EPA And Lisa Jackson?

Yet again, the phrase “in-kind campaign contribution” comes to mind in this obvious attempt by The Politico to get liberals out to vote Democrat by highlighting a potential assault on one of the climate alarmists favorite agencies. I blame global climate disruption for Lisa Jackson’s coming problems Congressional Republicans planning an assault on the Obama […]

 



Friday Stupid: Denying Climate Change Is Like Denying Santa Claus. Wait, What?

It’s time for Great Defenses of Global Climate Disruption, featuring….. Rep. Nick Rahall, Democratic incumbent for the U.S. House in the 3rd District, answered six questions posed to him by members of The Register-Herald editorial board earlier this week. After a bunch of questions, we get “Climate change – to deny it exists, to just […]

 


Joe Manchin, Democrat Senate Candidate, Blasts Climate Change Bill. Literally

Remember when Democrats pretended to run as Conservatives during the 2006 election? Now we have Joe Manchin, who is acting like a TEA Partier Democratic Senate candidate Joe Manchin isn’t letting that kerfuffle over Sarah Palin’s political crosshairs deter his 2nd-Amendment enthusiasm. In a new ad, the West Virginia Governor touts his NRA endorsement, and […]

 


Beef Industry Speaks Out On EPA “Dust” Rule – Say Goodbye To The Industry

Several months ago, the EPA made it known that they were considering regulating dust from farms. Dust. Something that really can’t be stopped without drastic, and costly, measures. Measures that would not raise your prices from American farms. Oh, no. Because the American farms would cease to operate. The National Association of Wheat Growers has […]