Category: Environment

Churchville, VA–The death toll from recent “extreme weather events” has been sharply declining since the 1920s, as my valued colleague Indur Goklany has valorously pointed out. Air conditioning, flood control, earthquake proofing and better weather forecasting have all helped. Despite vast media coverage, extreme weather now causes only a half-percent of global deaths. A large […]

Churchville, VA–James Hansen of NASA, an ardent believer in man-made warming, announced recently that “The 12-month running mean global temperature in the Goddard Space Institute analysis has reached a new record in 2010 . . . NASA, June 3, 2010. The main factor is our estimated temperature change for the Arctic region.” The GISS figures […]

Churchville, VA–Does the modern warming doom the western U.S. to drought? Two climate experts have just noted that the region now has “the worst drought since measurements began,” and they predict a future of soaring temperatures and declining snow-packs. “The climate changes in western North America, particularly in the Southwest, have outstripped change elsewhere on […]

There’s a very basic rule for new technology: it should be better than the old technology that it’s replacing. Electric cars have yet to meet that test. Replacing a gas powered car with the best electric cars on the market, the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf, would be like replacing your MP3 player with […]

Churchville, VA–California’s southern Sierra snowfall has not changed over the past century, according to John Christy, a native Californian and atmospheric researcher who’s now in charge of the global temperature-measuring satellites. Christy reconstructed snowfall records at Huntington Lake, CA, from 1916—2009. The station’s data since 1972 had been missing, but Christy found two nearby stations […]

One thing that cannot be emphasized enough when talking about the environmental extremists on the Left is that despite the fact that they’re always prattling on about “science,” they’re luddites at heart. Pretty much any and all technological progress that makes your life easier? They oppose it. Cars run on internal combustion engines? They don’t […]

If you follow through on environmentalist ideology, it isn’t only modern man who is evil and must be scrubbed from the planet — it’s the entire human race. Even noble savages were a blemish before the eyes of Gaia. For example, cavemen started global warming by hunting mammoths: Mammoths used to roam modern-day Russia and […]

Since the imaginary global warming crisis is absurd, efforts to combat it must also be absurd. Fortunately, moonbats have the ideal mindset to come up with appropriate solutions — such as painting the Andes white: By painting the mountains, Eduardo Gold hopes to replicate the effect of Andean glaciers, which reflect back sunlight and hence […]

CHURCHVILLE, VA–I can’t help but praise Michael Specter’s new book: Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives. Specter warns that we live in a world where the leaders of African nations prefer to let their citizens starve to death rather than import genetically-modified food grains. Childhood vaccines have […]

Considering moonbats’ obsessions with whales and with all things scatological, it’s surprising that they have only now stumbled upon the substance that could cure the earth of the imaginary global warming crisis — whale droppings: Southern Ocean sperm whales are an unexpected ally in the fight against global warming, removing the equivalent carbon emissions from […]

CHURCHVILLE, VA–The sun is currently producing fewer sunspots than it has in more than a century. Florida State researchers tell us this may predict bad U.S. hurricane seasons. They say that when the sunspot numbers peak, within the (roughly) 11-year sunspot cycle, the U.S. has less than a 25 percent chance of being hit with […]

Somewhere in the back of our minds is an ancestral memory of huddling around the fire in terror as wolves howl and creep closer through the darkness — or is that a premonition of the future moonbats have planned for us? In Wisconsin, it’s already coming true: David Schoone, a farmer in this lush region […]

CHURCHVILLE, VA – People and wild species are at more risk in Africa than on any other continent. Huge numbers of people are trying to subsist on hunting scarce animals and unsustainable slash-and-burn farming. If this continues it will undoubtedly trigger a Dust Bowl like that of the American Midwest in the 1930s along with […]

CHURCHVILLE, VA– “Global warming is over–at least for a few decades,” geologist Don Easterbrook, professor emeritus from Western Washington University told the Heartland Institute’s Fourth International Conference on Climate Change on May 19. He warned, however, us not to rejoice. Colder winters kill twice as many people as hot weather while crop production suffers from […]