Science and Technology
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Flashback: Chris Christie on global warming — ‘Time to defer to the experts’
On Friday’s Glenn Beck radio program, Beck responded to criticism that he was “poisoning the well” by not endorsing Chris…
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Weather-shaming: The wussification of America?
One always risks the Earnest Brigade weighing in on these things, pointing out that There Were A Record Number Of…
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The cold snap could very well be a result of global warming … er — climate change
Let’s call it “blathering-idiotgate.” The name is borrowed from an insult that Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) hurled at “climate-change deniers” before going…
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Alt v. EPA: Score one for the good guys
This case is a few months old, but its outcome just came to my attention. It’s a case brought by…
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Antarctic expedition icebound: Human stasis, not climate change
In one of those codas you can’t make up, the indispensable Watts Up With That site posted the real scoop,…
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Climate scientists on mission to study disappearing sea ice get stuck in ice
From the you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up department: The website Watts Up With That? (h/t reader Steven Ein) has the story of a research staffed by…
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Chicago contemplates tax on bicyclists as revenue stream? Good for them!
The Associated Press offers up what many will see as a little post-Christmas gloom in its report on a proposal in Chicago…
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GreenPeace has an ‘urgent message from Santa’ (Video)
This following video is rated not PG or even G, unless the letter stands for garbazh. It’s from the environmental group…
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WH delayed enacting rules ahead of 2012 election to avoid controversy
The headline of this post is picked up almost verbatim from a report filed by one of the Obama administration’s…
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Why is USA Today telling global warming lies?
When it comes to global warming, climate change, or whatever the theorists are calling it this these days, the mainstream…
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VA Governor-elect Terry McAuliffe’s light-rail pipe dream
Barack Obama is not the only Democrat who likes to play with trains. Terry McAuliffe likes public-transit projects, too, and…
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The Philippines, climate change, Democrats and the poor (Video)
Never let a crisis go to waste, even to push man-made global warming non-science while multitudes of the poor suffer…
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Obama’s green energy drive scars the Earth, and harms the environment
“Obama’s green energy drive comes with an unadvertised environmental cost,” notes the Associated Press, in a story focusing on President Obama’s environmentally-destructive…
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Why do green energy proponents hate birds?
A spring 2013 Forbes magazine piece reported that the giant wind turbines producing wind energy kill around 600,000 birds annually.…
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Was National Geographic’s ‘American Blackout’ reflective of what would happen in society?
Last week, National Geographic aired a much-anticipated show (mockumentary?) called “American Blackout,” a fictional account of what would happen in America…
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Blue-collar support for McAuliffe frays at the edges
Union solidarity? Not so much for Terry McAuliffe. Big Labor bosses are backing the Democrat in his Virginia gubernatorial race against…
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Ties that bind: Following the McAuliffe-Clinton money trail
As political cronies Bill Clinton and Terry McAuliffe are campaigning together across Virginia this week, their close coupling shows that money can be thicker…
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Government-run banks harm economy and environment, and promote corruption
At EcoWatch, Megan Quinn Bachman called for creating state-owned banks in order to fund “green electricity—and other sustainability projects.” But…
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‘Subsidy Summit’ seeks political juice for electric carmakers
Amid intense gridlock over government spending and debt ceilings, green-energy advocates and rent-seeking businesses are convening in the nation’s capital…
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Cover-up: IPCC report dismisses global warming stoppage because of gov’t pressure
The IPCC report on climate change discusses the rapid rise of surface temperatures during the 1970s but ignores the fact…
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Obama keeps promise to damage economy by killing coal industry
Fasten your seat belts, America, because energy costs, which are already skyrocketing under this administration, are about to go higher.…
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As gas costs rise, Obama’s signature could cut prices by $1 a gallon
“The reality is that expensive gas is here to stay…” In the almost six years of the Obama Administration, a…
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Ethanol mandates rip off consumers, enrich Wall Street speculators through ethanol credits
The New York Times ran a front page story Sunday about ethanol mandates, which rip off American consumers and enrich Wall Street profiteers.…
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Open letter from Obama supporter compares Syria’s use of nerve gas to use of pesticides in U.S.
“I do not consider myself a Christian, but I would like to quote Jesus and ask, ‘Who among you has…
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