Environment
Global Warming (80) Proof
January 17th, 2007 3:32 PM
Jonathan Miles' biweekly column on specialty drinks unearths yet more proof of global warming -- his "hot toddy" arrived cold. "By proposing to add polar bears to the list of 'threatened' species last month, the Bush administration seemed to finally acknowledge that global warming is taking a toll. With rising sea temperatures shrinking the polar ice cap, 'the polar bears’ habitat,' said Interior…
AP Writer: Bush 'Rejected' Kyoto Treaty, Though Senate Never Ratified
January 16th, 2007 8:13 AM
In an article (HT Instapundit) decrying the alleged environmental waste in the United Arab Emirates, Associated Press writer Jim Krane gave voice to the environmental strain of Bush Derangement Syndrome when he claimed:But the oil-rich Emirates is considered a developing country, and even as a signatory to the United Nations Kyoto protocol on global warming, is not required to cut emissions. The…
Baby, It's Warm Outside
January 10th, 2007 5:49 PM
Well, not any more. At least from where I'm sitting in lovely Old Town Alexandria. Darn global cooling!Anyway, at the MRC's Business & Media Institute, we're on top of the media's hype of global warming like white on polar ice.Here's my colleague Julia Seymour's latest newsletter article.To get Julia's newsletter articles piping hot in your inbox every Wednesday afternoon, just sign up right…
Alec Baldwin Sees Link Between Global Warming and War in Iraq
January 9th, 2007 11:22 PM
Actor Alec Baldwin -- since he woke up one morning believing that he understood politics and had an opinion that American’s would be interested in hearing -- has said and written a lot of absurd things. His recent rant at HuffnPuff has to rank high on his growing list of most inane. Please take a seat, and secure all fluids. You’ve been warned (emphasis mine throughout):All around us are signs of…
Flip-Flop: After a Few Liberals Whine, NBC Blames Odd Weather On Globa
January 9th, 2007 2:28 PM
Responding to a handful of liberal complainers, Monday’s NBC Nightly News basically repudiated a Friday evening story in which a NOAA meteorologist blamed the recent warmer-than-normal weather in the Northeast on an El Nino, an area of warmer than normal water in the Pacific Ocean that forms every five years or so. After some mean-spirited comments on NBC’s “Daily Nightly” blog site, where…
Chill Out, ABC: GMA Focuses on Downside of Warm Winter
January 5th, 2007 9:35 AM
Allergies? The warm weather makes it tough on people with fall allergies? Is that really the best GMA can do when it comes to wringing its hands over the warm winter weather people in the Northeast have been enjoying?Except for fleeting references to January bouquets and falling oil prices, GMA's segment this morning was one long whine-a-thon about the mild winter. I do mean long. GMA led…
