150 Years of Global Warming and Cooling at the New York Times
As the Business & Media Institute reported last year, press reports of climate change have been going on since the 1800s.Over the weekend, I was sent a list of New York Times articles dating back to 1855 addressing the global warming and cooling that has been happening on this planet for the past 150 years. I have taken the liberty of adding a few pieces that I discovered in the Times’…
‘Scarborough Country’ Addresses Why Conservatives Dislike Al Gore
Want to have some real fun at your next dinner party? Well, invite an equal number of liberals and conservatives, and ask them the following question: “Why do conservatives dislike Al Gore so much?”It’s guaranteed to be a huge success making you the toast of your neighborhood.With that in mind, the host of MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country” marvelously did exactly that on Wednesday, pitting Republican…
Al Gore Refuses to Take Personal Energy Ethics Pledge During Global Wa
An interesting event took place during soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore’s visit to Congress on Wednesday. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) asked the former Vice President to take a pledge that he would not use more energy in his personal residence than the average American, and Gore refused (video available here).As reported at the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works website: "Senator…
Al Gore Tells Congress to Tax Pollution and CO2 to Solve Global Warmin
As most of you know, former Vice President and soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore spoke in front of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Science and Technology Wednesday about the dangers of anthropogenic global warming (video available here). What you probably didn't know is that the global warmingest-in-chief actually recommended a tax on pollution to solve the problem. I…
Media Ignore Czech President: Environmentalism is the New Communism
If the president or prime minister of a former Soviet bloc European nation told Congress that global warming skeptics were like communists inhibiting human freedom, do you think this would be headline news?Well, as amazing as it might seem, Czech President Vaclav Klaus made some rather astonishing comments in a letter to members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee about how “climate change…
Scientists Blame Hollywood for Global Warming Hysteria
March 2007 might go down in science history as the month the global warming skeptics struck back.From a British documentary debunking myths currently being advanced by the alarmists to Al Gore being challenged to a debate, scientists across the questionably warming globe have clearly thrown down the gauntlet.The most recent event transpired at a conference in Oxford today, where some noted…
Al Gore Challenged to International Global Warming Debate
It’s put up or shut up time for soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore who was formally challenged to defend his well-publicized global warming theories in a debate with a former advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.As reported by PR Newswire (emphasis added throughout):In a formal invitation sent to former Vice-President Al Gore's Tennessee address and released to the public, Lord Monckton has…
‘Another Inconvenient Truth’: BusinessWeek Busts Al Gore and Carbo
As reported by NewsBusters here, here, here, and here, this has been an awful week for global warming alarmists and their hero, soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore. From an unfavorable article about him in the New York Times, to a Gallup poll showing that Americans aren't buying into his junk science, Gore must feel a long way from Hollywood and Oscar night.Marvelously adding to the torture was BusinessWeek…
Consensus My Eye: Global Warming Skeptics Win NYC Debate With Believer
You probably didn’t hear about a rather topical debate concerning man’s role in global warming that took place in New York City Wednesday night. Want to know why the media will likely ignore this fascinating event? Well, because the panel of skeptics beat the believers.How large was the victory? Well, before the debate took place, the tough New York crowd was polled, and the results showed that…
