Aug 8, 2007

Carnival of Climate Change: Volume 1, Issue 5


Ground-Level Ozone Trends: Facts vs. Fantasy
Over at World Climate Report, Joel Schwartz of the American Enterprise Institute injects some realism into the atmosphere to rebuke a recent study on ground-level ozone trends.

Environmentalists Sign Petition Banning Water
Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters reruns a hilarious Penn & Teller video wherein a wooly-headed herd of intellectually undiscerning eco-sheeple is persuaded to sign a petition banning H2O.

Climate Extremism is Greatest Threat to Civilization, say scientists
Global Warming Hysteria’s Peter Glover discusses an article by two Canadian scientists who say we have more to fear from global warming fear than from global warming itself.

ESA, eat your heart out
Chris Horner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, mucks around in the House anti-energy bill and digs up recipes for a new federal global warming bureaucracy, expanding tort claims against the U.S. for making the Earth hotter, and government-certified “carbon-neutral” credit schemes favored by wealthy politicians and Hollywood trendsters who’ll do whatever they can to avoid curbing their energy consumption while still appearing environmentally-correct.

Sleep All Day To Save The Planet...
Paul of Globalwarmingisms digs up a funny comic strip that points out the “absurdity of the global warming hysteria in four simple comic frames.”

In the Beginning…There Was Climate Change
OrangePunch blogger Alan Block highlights an Orange County Register letter-to-the-editor that makes the rather obvious point that throughout history Earth’s climate has been in flux -- and logic would seemingly dictate that if it isn't getting cooler, then it’s probably getting warmer, regardless and independent of what humans are doing.

Lack of Extreme Heat a Real Rarity
A
lack of 100+ degree summer days in the nation’s breadbasket? Looks like they traded “global warming” for “climate change” just in time!

A Global Warming Worksheet
Karl, the Rite Wing Technopagan, thinks focusing directly on effects of global warming, if any, makes more sense than flailing against a supposed crisis with faulty inferences.

Global Warming Tricks
Grit of the Global Warming Resistance looks to a map NASA’s “warming” data as well as the weather station locations upon which it was purportedly based, and thinks the whole thing just might be a bunch of jabberwocky.

Cold Or Hot, it's always our fault
Lorne Gunter has an interesting article in the Free Republic discussing why governments and the UN fight so hard against accepting natural causes to global warming.

BBC climate change 'mishonesty' knows no bounds
Kerplunk’s Jack Lacton takes the BBC to task for its recent cherry-picked and hard-spun visual report on climate change.

There is no Consensus
For those tired of hearing about the “scientific consensus” on man-made global warming, check out Matthew Sann over at the Global Warming Skeptic.

EPA to Probe Threatening E-Mail Sent to Global Warming Skeptic
As noted here, Dr. Marlo Lewis, a skeptic of anthropogenic global warming, was the target of an undisguised attempt at intimidation by American Council on Renewable Energy president Michael T. Eckhart. Now, the EPA, a member of the council, is investigating the threat. (H/T: NewsBusters)

Forecaster WSI Corp revises forecast for hurricane season 2007 to ‘less severe’
Sister Toldjah notes that one agency has already downgraded the 2007 hurricane season, and recalls that last year’s hurricane season was far less ferocious than anticipated.

Garbage Science Is Back
Despite the revelations above, the alarmists trek onward using the lack of late 19th and early 21st Century data to prove that global warming is causing an influx in hurricanes, points out Curt at Flopping Aces.

Antediluvian Diluvial Delusions
Climate Resistance has choice words for the global-warming blame-gamers who went off the deep end during the recent catastrophic floods in England.

If the jackboot fits...
Neosocialist progressies are becoming increasingly agitated by persistent comparisons of their global domination/depopulation ambitions with various catastrophic schemes, "scientific" social experiments and "solutions" advanced by previous totalitarian power-seeking movements. They suspect a conspiracy of Lyndon LaRouche followers is responsible for the calumny.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did you see the newsweek counter article to their global warming denial machine article?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20226462/site/newsweek/page/0/

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