Environment
Palm Beach Post: Using Global Warming Activist's Press Release as News
August 6th, 2007 2:39 AM
The Palm Beach Post was caught in a bit of deception by one of its readers over the weekend. At issue was another globaloney alarmist story the paper printed on July 25th, titled "This century hotter than last, group finds," supposedly by Post writer Dara Kam. Unfortunately for the reputation of Dara Kam and that of the paper, this "article" was merely a rewording of the press release of an…
Pennsylvania County Considers Floating Global Warming Bonds
August 5th, 2007 5:37 PM
If you had any questions concerning the future financial potential of selling global warming alarmism, an idea being researched by a Pennsylvania county will provide all the answers you need. As reported by The Intelligencer Saturday (emphasis added throughout): Montgomery County officials are looking into whether a bond can be issued to pay for greenhouse gas reduction projects as part of a…
Renowned Economics Writer Slams UN's IPCC As Deserving of Disdain
August 5th, 2007 4:54 PM
Fans of the highly-respected British publications The Economist and the Financial Times are certainly familiar with Clive Crook, one of the leading economics journalists on the international landscape. On Thursday, Crook wrote an article entitled "The Steamrollers of Climate Science," in which he took on the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as being "a seriously flawed…
WashPost Wrongly Claimed US Is Still Biggest Greenhouse Gas Emitter
August 5th, 2007 2:55 PM
The media frames America in anthropogenic global warming articles as the evil Earth Killer, and everything from a sparrow flying into a glass window to Darfur's genocide is America's and George Bush's fault, regardless of facts or science. In an August 4 article which stated President Bush invited the world's leading economic powers to participate in a "climate change summit” that intends to set…
Newsweek Disgrace: ‘Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine
August 5th, 2007 1:43 PM
Manmade global warming alarmism took a disgraceful turn for the worse this weekend when Newsweek published a lengthy cover-story repeatedly calling skeptics "deniers" that are funded by oil companies and other industries with a vested interest in obfuscating the truth.In fact, the piece several times suggested that publishing articles skeptical of man's role in climate change is akin to…
Abnormally Cold Temperatures in Texas Threaten Cotton Crop
August 4th, 2007 11:59 AM
If summer heat and drought were jeopardizing crops in the Midwest, would a climate change obsessed media be having a field day (pun intended) reporting the news whilst connecting it to manmade global warming? 24 hours a day, seven days a week, right? CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC would likely have correspondents in the cornfields giving daily updates about the gravity of the situation. Yet, further…
Global Warming Myth Exposed: Soot From Cooking Fires Melting Himalayan
August 3rd, 2007 2:03 PM
Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego published a paper in the journal Nature Thursday which put a huge hole in the manmade global warming theory espoused by soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As reported by the Associated Press (emphasis added): Huge haze clouds over the Indian Ocean contribute as much to atmospheric…
Global Warming Used in E-mail Spam Scam
August 2nd, 2007 11:14 AM
As if the scam of global warming isn't enough, the mythical manmade malady is now being used as part of an e-mail spam campaign likely to free concerned environmentalists of their hard-earned dollars. Of course, as reported by NewsBusters Wednesday, it's not in the least bit difficult to con these folks to begin with. As such, authorities better squelch this Internet scheme quickly, or Al…
Global Warming Causes Drop in Supply of Bulgarian Prostitutes
August 2nd, 2007 10:24 AM
There appears to now be a double-secret, international competition to figure out new planetary ills that can somehow be tied - regardless of the seeming inanity - to manmade global warming. This announcement out of Toronto could be the best yet: a warmer climate is causing stray cats - no, not Brian Setzer and the boys - to mate more frequently thereby resulting in an explosion in furry, feral…
Environmentalists Sign Petition Banning Water
August 1st, 2007 1:21 PM
On a regular basis, anthropogenic global warming skeptics wonder how folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and his band of not so merry climate change sycophants can so easily get seemingly intelligent people to buy their junk science hook, line, and sinker. With this in mind, the comedy duo of Penn and Teller set out to see whether they could get people at an Earth Day rally called "WorldFest" to…
Genie Out of the Bottle: 'U.N. Climate Change Meeting Aims at Rich Cou
August 1st, 2007 10:34 AM
Climate change alarmism met the infamous Oil for Food scam at the United Nations Tuesday.As a result, if you had any questions regarding why the U.N. has been the point-man on driving global warming hysteria throughout America and around the world, they were all answered. In fact, the genie was let out of the proverbial bottle by this Reuters headline: "U.N. Climate Change Meeting Aims at…
Media Misrepresent Senators’ Global Warming Trip to Greenland
July 31st, 2007 6:19 PM
As NewsBusters reported Monday, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California) was quoted in an Orange County Register article as saying about a recent trip by Senators to investigate Greenland's glaciers, "I think everyone who has seen this is changed." On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported: "There is absolutely no disagreement that the greenhouse gas emissions are adding to climate change and global…