England Floods Neither Biblical Nor Caused By Global Warming
As NewsBusters has reported, American media have been relaying to the citizenry that the recent floods in England are caused by - what else? - manmade global warming. Addressing such nonsense Friday was London-based geological-, biological-, and political-history researcher Don Stewart. In an article published at PR-GB.com, Stewart mocked the hysteria surrounding England's floods, and…
Global Warming War: Is Threatening E-Mail Tip of the Iceberg
The war over climate change got much hotter Friday, so much so that anthropogenic global warming skeptics who have claimed that there is a huge number of scientists staying silent about this issue to protect their careers may have been validated. As NewsBusters previously reported, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Stephen Johnson, was apprised by Sen. James Inhofe (R-…
Global Warming Foes Trade Barbs Over Threatening E-mail Message
Well, sports fans, the tale of the threatening global warming e-mail message took an interesting turn Friday morning when a representative from the American Council on Renewable Energy sent a message to yours truly containing a response from ACORE President Michael T. Eckhart. As NewsBusters reported here and here, Eckhart sent the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Dr. Marlo Lewis an e-…
EPA to Probe Threatening E-Mail Sent to Global Warming Skeptic
On July 13, NewsBusters reported that Michael T. Eckhart, president of the American Council on Renewable Energy, sent an e-mail message to Dr. Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute threatening to destroy his career: If you produce one more editorial against climate change, I will launch a campaign against your professional integrity. During a hearing of the Senate Environment and…
'Arctic Tale' 'Documentary' Scripted; Tricks Kids Into Worrying About
Environmentalists are targeting kids and using deception to get their message out. Anthropogenic global warming evangelists and wildlife filmmakers, Sarah Robertson and Adam Ravetch, made the upcoming live action “Arctic Tale” because as Robertson told the LA Times, "Global warming to a lot of people is statistics...What we wanted to do was put a face on climate change." OK, so there's the goal…
NYT Offers Two Glowing Reviews of Kristin Gore’s Global Warming Film
In the past four days, the New York Times published two reviews of "Arctic Tale," a new film about polar bears threatened by - wait for it! - global warming. Makes one wonder whether the need for two reviews versus the normal one was due to the Times's desire to advance alarmism concerning the great, liberal bogeyman of climate change, or that the screenplay was co-written by soon-to-be-Dr. Al…
New Federal Bureaucracy Proposed to Deal With Carbon Emissions
Just how far is all this global warming nonsense going? Well, on Tuesday, four senators proposed a bill that would create a new federal bureaucracy to oversee the growing multi-billion dollar carbon trading market. Just what we need, right? Another monolithic bureaucracy, this one designed to help solve a problem the existence of which is greatly questioned. As Duke University reported…
2007 Hurricane Forecast Reduced, Will Media Care
In May, when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted an above average hurricane season, the media reported the announcement with a vigor. Two months later, with no serious hurricanes yet hitting the mainland, a private forecaster has reduced its tropical storm expectations. Less hurricanes should be good news, especially for folks along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, right…
Award-winning Sci Fi Author Debunks Global Warming and 'Hockey Stick
Orson Scott Card is an award-winning science fiction author who made his first huge step into the political arena on the day before Election Day 2006 when he wrote an op-ed - as a life-long Democrat, mind you - declaring (emphasis added): If control of the House passes into Democratic hands, there are enough withdraw-on-a-timetable Democrats in positions of prominence that it will not only seem…
