Global Warming

2006 will go down as the year that the media universally tried to sell America on the unproven theory that man-made global warming is destroying the planet, and will cause our imminent doom. Part of this hysteria includes fallacious assertions by all involved that there is a scientific consensus regarding these dire predictions.Though they are likely to get little attention from an hysterical…

The battle over junk science is getting more enjoyable every day. After The Weather Channel’s major climatologist issued a strong shot across the bow on Thursday concerning global warming skeptics losing their AMS certifications, an Alabama weatherman named James Spann wrote a blog post at his station’s website firing back (emphasis mine throughout):Well, well. Some “climate expert” on “The…

If you had any doubt concerning just how hot the global warming debate is going to get, this item should convince you about the seriousness of the pending war over the value of junk science. A prominent climatologist working for The Weather Channel has suggested that on air meteorologists be stripped of their credentials if they express any skepticism concerning global climate change.Think I’m…

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…

This is really delicious, and definitely requires all drinking vessels be properly stowed. Al Gore, and his schlockumentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” have received another delicious rebuke.As reported by the Associated Press (hat tip to Drudge, emphasis mine throughout):The school board in this suburb south of Seattle has restricted showings of Al Gore's movie on global warming, including…

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…

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…

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…