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On March 3, The New York Times Magazine created a major flap in the climate-change community by running a cover story on the theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson that focused largely on his views of human-induced global warming. Basically, he doesn’t buy it. The climate models used to forecast what will happen as we continue to pump CO2 into the atmosphere are unreliable, Dyson claims, and so, therefore, are the projections. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, his first since the Times article appeared, Dyson contends that since carbon dioxide is good for plants, a warmer planet could be a...

A new book on climate change is hitting shelves soon.   The book — titled Climate Change Reconsidered — is authored by scientists Craig Idso and Fred Singer. Joe Bast, president and CEO of The Heartland Institute, helped edit the book; he says the book is a response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report on global warming.   “It is an authoritative, detailed, and completely scientific rebuttal of the claim that global warming is a crisis,” Bast explains.   The book’s editor continues: “It demonstrates that there is just extensive scientific support that says that whatever warming has...

The Obama administration and congressional Democrats have proposed a major cap-and-trade system aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Scientists agree that CO2 emissions around the world could lead to rising temperatures with serious long-term environmental consequences. But that is not a reason to enact a U.S. cap-and-trade system until there is a global agreement on CO2 reduction. The proposed legislation would have a trivially small effect on global warming while imposing substantial costs on all American households. And to get political support in key states, the legislation would abandon the auctioning of permits in favor of giving permits to selected...

Director Mike Judge’s new animated television series “The Goode Family” is a send-up of a clan of environmentalists who live by the words “What would Al Gore do?” Gerald and Helen Goode want nothing more than to minimize their carbon footprint. They feed their dog, Che, only veggies (much to the pet’s dismay) and Mr. Goode dutifully separates sheets of toilet paper when his wife accidentally buys two-ply. And, of course, the family drives a hybrid. On Wednesday at 9 p.m., “The Goode Family” will have its premiere on ABC and become the first animated series on the network’s prime-time...

A person needn't be a buffoon or political hack to be skeptical of global warming. That would be news to The Washington Post's news desk, however. A Post article on May 19 falsely reported that there is a "consensus" among scientists and a growing portion of the American public that human carbon emissions are causing a dangerous, long-term increase in worldwide temperatures. The facts, overwhelmingly, show no such consensus. The Post's David A. Fahrenthold reported that Republican "warming skeptics" are becoming ever bolder on Capitol Hill even as "most" or a "consensus" of "scientists around the globe have rejected their...

  Mironov Tells Kyoto Experts The World Is Getting CoolerBy Simon ShusterStaff WriterSergei Mironov ST. PETERSBURG -- It was a failure from the start. Russia's biggest conference on the Kyoto Protocol, which aims to fight global warming, began with a speech from a top official who denied that global warming even exists. "In reality, the scientific basis for the protocol is fairly weak," Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov told a crowded opening session of the two-day conference Thursday, which drew more than 200 environmental experts and carbon market participants from around the world. "In the opinion of many experts, the...

Powerline Video has the whole BBC1 documentary where dissenting scientists speak out against the "man-made global warming crisis" orthodoxy. Well worth the watch. About an hour and ten minutes long.

Dr. Allegre's dream is to see "ecology become the engine of economic development, and not an artificial obstacle that creates fear." According to an article in the National Post, Dr. Claude Allegre, a well-respected and renowned French scientist, who was also among the first to sound a warning about Global Warming, has apparently changed his mind. Fifteen years ago, geochemist Dr. Allegre, had joined with 1500 prominent scientists in signing the highly publicized World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, a letter that stressed the great potential risks of Global Warming. However, after the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

I fear that Al Gore is becoming a modern day Rachel Carson. The New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani favorably compared the book and film versions of An Inconvenient Truth with Silent Spring. The New Republic's Frank Foer called it a "cinematic Silent Spring." Emotional appeals will effect public policy changes, which will have widespread, unintended negative consequences.

Defend California's Clean Car Bill! Take Action! Fight global warming. Sign this petition and tell the automakers to drop their effort to block California's tough new global warming law. Send this petition to: Mitsubishi, Ford, Toyota, Volkswagen, BMW, GM, Porsche, DaimlerChrysler, Automobile Associations Excerpted from: http://ga4.org/campaign/sufc_cleancar_petition?rk=9da4h7d17BDsW

Promoters of the global warming disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow" must believe most of us were born yesterday. As most movie fans know, the much-hyped film focuses on a global apocalypse of cataclysmic floods, tornadoes, storms and blizzards that threaten to destroy civilization. Two hundred and ninety-foot tidal waves surge across New York Harbor and dash against Manhattan's skyscrapers, followed by a quick freeze that leaves Manhattan enshrouded in ice. Dozens of other cities get hammered. A tornado levels Los Angeles, five-pound hailstones bombard Tokyo and San Francisco Bay freezes. It's a New Ice Age. It's the latest brainstorm...

What else can you call the authors of an article in an early January edition of the journal Nature, other than liars? Their assertion of mass extinctions of species by 2050, resulting from global warming, is pure fiction, but it was trumpeted in a January 7 press release from Conservation International as the “most comprehensive analysis to date.” And it received worldwide news coverage. As this is being written, the temperature outside my window is about ten degrees above zero and mid-to-late January is setting records for frigid arctic air flowing from the North. One would think that the press...