Environment

Well, it seems that the folks at Vanity Fair realized that they won't have George W. Bush to kick around any more. So they decided to launch the journalistic equivalent of thermonuclear war against him in an attempt to get its shot at a "draft of history." In a 14 web-page tome (the photo at the top right is at its beginning) that fancies itself an "oral history," the magazine hauls out every…

President-elect Barack Obama might have broken Environmental Protection Agency regulations when he tossed the cremated remains of his grandmother into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Nuuanu, Hawaii, earlier this week.As the website of Hawaiian NBC-TV affiliate KHNL reported Tuesday (video available here):Secret Service security keeps a close watch as Obama, oldest daughter Malia and sister…

Can you imagine a major American newspaper publishing the headline "2008 Was the Year Man-made Global Warming Was Disproved?"No...neither can I.Yet, supporting the view that foreign press outlets are more willing to present both sides of this debate, the British Telegraph published a piece Saturday most climate alarmists on this side of the Atlantic would never dare:

First it's Christmas lights, now it's Christmas dinner...causing global warming.Yep. People who cook more than their guests will eat and throw the food away are destroying the planet.I'm not kidding.ABCNews.com in Australia reported the following absurdity on Christmas Eve:

Here's an announcement that will please atheists and climate alarmists alike: Christmas lights are bad for the planet because they cause global warming.So says the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's national science agency.  Bah humbug, I kid you not. As reported by the Courier and Mail this Christmas Eve:

Is there no depth the global warming fear-mongers won't go to scare the public into believing carbon dioxide is destroying the planet?Apparently not, as a new ad by the environmental group Greenpeace disgracefully depicts an ocean rescue of a seasick and vomiting Santa Claus from a supposedly melting North Pole.As the animation comes to a close, the caption "Climate Change hits everybody" fills…

The liberal mind never ceases to amaze me.Our nation is experiencing record snows and cold spells, and Air America host Thom Hartmann actually told his audience Friday:What we are seeing in this cold, that has me trapped in my house here today, is that, what we are seeing is a symptom of global warming. But you wouldn't know that from the crazies on the right.Speaking of lunacy, Hartmann was so…

Las Vegas, Nevada, four days before the beginning of winter 2008-09.  Photo AP.

In what's certain to be an article that can be recycled every Christmas season, Newsweek's Daniel Stone offers Ebenezer Scrooges throughout the land an easy excuse for regifting. You're not being cheap, you're just being green.His story was originally published on December 13, but is being cycled through the top headlines on the magazine's Web site today (see screencap at right), with just seven…

If you are even an occasional viewer of CNN, chances are you have not been able to escape a commercial for the channel's "Planet in Peril" two-hour homage to environmental alarmism.Despite the huge hype, however, CNN's regular audience seems to have tuned out the special. It was a ratings dud: It's not just the "Planet in Peril." The ratings for CNN's two-hour environmental special last week were…

From our friends at Minnesotans for Global Warming, the wonderful group that gave us "If We Had Some Global Warming," just in time for the holidays -- and sub-zero temperatures across much of the fruited plain -- comes "The 12 Days of Global Warming":

The December 14 edition of the "Mini Page," a weekly children's print supplement that appears in newspapers across the country, relied on tips from the left-wing National Resources Defense Council [NRDC] for a story entitled "Going Green for the Holidays." The four page publication, written by Mini Page editor Betty Debnam, regularly includes innocuous connect-the-dots puzzles and other games for…

Less than a week after a new report from the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works committee showcased hundreds of scientists who disagree with the United Nations' alarmist take on global climate change, ABC’s World News Sunday featured a report devoted solely to cheering Barack Obama’s new “green team” — the promotional term was embraced by ABC News — and laying the…