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'The scientific reality is that on virtually every claim -- from A-Z -- the claims of the promoters of man-made climate fears are failing. The A-Z report includes key facts, peer-reviewed studies and the latest data and developments with links for further reading, on an exhaustive range of man-made global warming claims' Wednesday, December 07, 2011By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Below is the Introduction to the report. Full report is available here. INTRODUCTION: Many of the proponents of man-made global warming are now claiming that climate change is worse than they predicted. According to an October 18, 2011 Daily...

Exclusive Special to Climate Depot - Lord Christopher Monckton reports from UN Climate Summit Durban: what the media are not telling you By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley in Durban, South Africa DURBAN, South Africa -- “No high hopes for Durban.” “Binding treaty unlikely.” “No deal this year.” Thus ran the headlines. The profiteering UN bureaucrats here think otherwise. Their plans to establish a world government paid for by the West on the pretext of dealing with the non-problem of “global warming” are now well in hand. As usual, the mainstream media have simply not reported what is in the draft...

Climate Depot key excerpt: The Antarctic sea ice extent has been at or near record extent in the past few summers, the Arctic has rebounded in recent years since the low point in 2007, polar bears are thriving, sea level is not showing acceleration and is actually dropping, Cholera and Malaria are failing to follow global warming predictions, Mount Kilimanjaro melt fears are being made a mockery by gains in snow cover, global temperatures have been holding steady for a decade or more, deaths due to extreme weather are radically declining, global tropical cyclone activity is near historic lows, the...

Obama 'presided over what some scientists are terming an 'historic decline" in global sea levels' -- 'Obama should declare 'mission accomplished' and take credit!' Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - By Marc Morano – Climate Depot President Barack Obama can take a bow. As Obama struggles with poor polling numbers, persistent high unemployment, the possibly of a primary challenge within his own party and a stagnant economy saddled with massive deficits and debts, one area where he can claim success is his prediction that he would slow sea level rise. Obama -- in similar fashion to baseball legend Babe Ruth calling...

Former Vice President Al Gore sounded a defeated tone and lamented the utter failure of the man-made global warming movement during a speech to the Aspen Institute in Colorado on August 4, 2011. Gore used multiple curse words in an emotional speech that revealed his deep frustration and all but conceded defeat to global warming skeptics. Defeated Gore unleashes: 'It's no longer acceptable in mixed company, meaning bipartisan company, to use the godd*mn word 'climate'...we cannot possibly come to an agreement on it' - August 5, 2011 Gore also compared today's global warming skeptics to the 'evil, evil, evil' tobacco...

But Gore never warned of looming 'heavy snowfalls' in his 2006 film -- The man who 'created' the Internet finds his website (and his science) not up to the task -- Climate Depot's Rebuttal Tuesday, February 01, 2011By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Former President Al Gore's website was crashed by Matt Drudge's website on Tuesday afternoon. Gore's site was down from approximately 4:30 PM ET until about 6PM ET. The DrudgeReport.com linked to Gore's claim that "heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they (scientists) have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming" at exactly 4:29pm ET....

'It would be hard to find anyone less fit to 'educate' people about climate science in Washington than John Holdren' Sunday, January 30, 2011By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Climate Depot Editorial Excerpt From The Hill – January 30, 2011 White House official cites 'education problem' on climate By Ben Geman President Obama's top science adviser said there's a need to “educate” GOP climate change skeptics on Capitol Hill as the White House seeks to advance its green energy agenda. “It is an education problem. I think we have to educate them,” said John Holdren, who heads the White House...

Oh My! 2010 tied for 'hottest' year?! Relax, it is 'purely a political statement' -- Even NASA's Hansen admits it is 'not particularly important' -- Prof. mocks 'hottest decade' claim as 'a joke' Friday, January 14, 2011 -- By Marc Morano - Climate Depot Climate Depot Editorial There they go again. The global warming establishment and the media are crowing about 2010 being in a tie for the "hottest year" ever. Everyone from Senator John Kerry to Joe Romm are screaming that this is "proof" the planet is burning up in a Co2 induced hell -- and it's your fault!...

SPECIAL REPORT: More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims - Challenge UN IPCC & Gore Climate Depot Exclusive: 321-page 'Consensus Buster' Report set to further chill UN Climate Summit in Cancun Wednesday, December 08, 2010- By Marc Morano - Climate Depot Link to Complete 321-Page PDF Special Report (coming soon) INTRODUCTION: More than 1000 dissenting scientists (updates previous 700 scientist report) from around the globe have now challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore. This new 2010 320-page Climate Depot Special...

Cameron's Spokesman: 'Morano is not at Cameron's level to debate, and that's why it didn't happen. Cameron should be debating someone who is similar to his stature in our society' Morano: 'Cameron let his friends in the environmental community spook him out of this debate. When he was warned that he was probably going to lose and lose badly, he ran like a scared mouse.' Tuesday, August 24, 2010By Marc Morano – Climate Depot [Note from Marc Morano: "Cameron is now claiming he cancelled the climate debate at the last minute because I am not worthy to debate him. Cameron...

From King of the World to Chicken of the Sea: Director James Cameron challenges climate skeptics to debate and then bails out at last minute Hide the Debate: Cameron ducks Climate Debate with Breitbart, Morano, & McElhinney Monday, August 23, 2010 - By Marc Morano – Climate Depot ASPEN COLORADO: Hollywood director James Cameron challenged three high profile global warming skeptics to a public debate at a global warming and energy conference. But Cameron backed out of the debate at the last minute after environmentalists "came out of the woodwork" to warn him not to engage in a debate with...

Morano Counters: 'You need to apologize and retract that immediately' UK Professor asserts 'every single intelligent person' listens to UN Scientists! Watch Video of Debate Here. Saturday, December 12, 2009 - By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Watch Video of Sky News TV Debate here. A contentious live global warming debate took place in Copenhagen on UK's Sky News TV on December 12 between Professor Mark Maslin of the University College London and Climate Depot's Marc Morano. During the debate, Professor Maslin erroneously asserted there are “5000 leading climate scientists” with the UN IPCC to support the claims of man-made...

A professor who is accusing global warming skeptics of engaging in "tabloid-style character assassination” of scientists, called an American climate skeptic “an assh*le” on the December 4, 2009 live broadcast of BBC's Newsnight program. “What an assh*le!” declared Professor Watson at the end of the contentious debate with Climate Depot's executive editor Marc Morano. A clearly agitated Watson had earlier shouted to Morano “will you shut up.” Video of BBC “As*h*le” clip is here. Full one-on-one BBC debate segment between Prof. Watson and Climate Depot's Morano is here in two parts. The remark was broadcast live on BBC and prompted...

'We should end this anti-scientific nonsense now' -- UN's 'Copenhagen jamboree is a scandal and it must be stopped' Thursday, November 26, 2009 - By Marc Morano – Climate Depot UK astrophysicist Piers Corbyn, of the long range solar forecast group Weather Action, declared that the ClimateGate revelations have rendered man-made global warming fears “false.” “The case is blown to smithereens and this whole theory should be destroyed and discarded and Copenhagen conference should be closed,” Corbyn said in a contentious on air television exchange with an environmental activist with Russia's WWF. The live TV debate with Corbyn appeared on...

'Obama seems to approach climate issues as nothing more than a 'check box' issue' Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Climate Depot Editorial Climate Depot warmly welcomes President Obama's half-hearted climate efforts. Mr. President, welcome to the “delayers.” We hope you can soon join the full-fledged climate realist movement global warming skepticism has now become politically expedient. President Obama is now being excoriated for essentially continuing the policies of former President George W. Bush. (see: DER SPIEGEL: 'Obama Has Failed the World on Climate Change; Lied to Europeans' - 'Followed in footsteps of George W....

'Warming had a natural origin...CO2 is 'not guilty' Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Reprint of new scientific paper: (Full pdf paper available here.) THE SUN DEFINES THE CLIMATE (Habibullo Abdussamatov, Dr. Sc. - Head of Space research laboratory of the Pulkovo Observatory, Head of the Russian/Ukrainian joint project Astrometria - (translated from Russian by Lucy Hancock) Dr. Abdussamatov is featured on page 140 of the 2009 U.S. Senate Report of More Than 700 Dissenting Scientists Over Man-Made Global Warming.) Key Excerpts: Observations of the Sun show that as for the increase in temperature, carbon...

Losing Their Religion: 2009 officially declared year media lost their faith in man-made global warming fears Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Climate Depot Editorial - Serving as the Media's Ombudsman It has finally happened. We have reached the “tipping point.” 2009 can now be officially declared the year the media lost their faith in man-made global warming fears. Significant organs of the mainstream media are now officially abandoning one-sided man-made global warming fear promotion and alleged claims that the "debate is over." The stunning media reversal has accelerated in recent weeks as top UN...

Inconvenient Censorship: Stanford U. Bans Climate Film from Airing Interview with Cooling turned Warming Prof. Stephen Schneider -- 'You are prohibited!' 'Prof. Schneider has withdrawn any permission for you to use his name, likeness or interview' Tuesday, October 06, 2009 - By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Climate Depot Exclusive Stanford University has banned a documentary film from airing a climate change interview with one of its prominent warming activist professors, Stephen Schneider. After legal threats from Stanford University, the documentary filmmakers were forced to use a blank screen and an actor had to read the transcript of Schneider's banned...

New UN climate report 'aimed at marshaling political support' Friday, September 25, 2009 - By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Climate Depot Editorial - Serving as the Media's Ombudsman Washington Post staff writer Juliet Eilperin continues her downward slide as an objective and balanced reporter of climate issues. Eilperin's September 25, 2009 article titled “New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast Of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase," is a journalistic embarrassment. Earlier this month, Eilperin (publicly available email: eilperinj@washpost.com) did a similarly poor job of reporting on claims of an Arctic “Hockey Stick.” (See: Not Again! WaPo's Eilperin and Media Promoting Arctic 'Hockey Stick'...

Climate Reparations: Western nations 'have already exceeded their quotas'...'The West would give back part of the wealth it has taken from the South in the past centuries' Sunday, September 06, 2009By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Excerpted From a September 4, 2009 article in The German Newspaper Der Spiegel. The interview was conducted by Christian Schwägerl and the article was titled: 'Industrialized Nations Are Facing CO2 Insolvency' Der Spiegel Excerpts: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the German government's climate protection adviser, argues that drastic measures must be taken in order to prevent a catastrophe. Schellnhuber is proposing the creation of a CO2...