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Honestly, folks, when this first arrived in my inbox moments ago, I had to check multiple links to believe that this next example of Global Warming Derangement Syndrome was actually true. Alas, it was.United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is blaming mass-murder in Darfur on – wait for it! – "global climate change."I kid you not.As reported Sunday by Agence France-Presse (h/t Willis…

Just in case our kids weren’t getting enough global warming alarmism from their teachers and the mainstream media, MTV announced Wednesday that it will be further brainwashing youth with junk science about the planet’s imminent doom.How might that change Mark Knopfler’s fabulous “Money For Nothing” lyrics and video?Before we get to that, here’s how Variety reported this announcement (h/t Tim…

The Associated Press on Thursday published an article that very much went counter to all the climate change alarmism so prevalent in the media since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in 2005.Conceivably more shocking was the headline the Washington Post chose for the version published at its website: “Could Some Win With Global Warming?” According to LexisNexis, AP’s headline on all its versions…

Just when you thought it was safe to have drinks near your computer, the global warming alarmists have created a diet to help you reduce your carbon footprint.I wish I was kidding. Hysterically, I’m not.As reported in Tuesday’s Washington Times (h/t NBer Blonde, emphasis added throughout):Attention chubby do-gooders, and maybe Al Gore. The global warming diet is here.The article deliciously…

As the MRC's Matthew Balan reported, Florida’s Broward County is actually considering canceling the broadcast of emergency information -- including that related to hurricanes -- on a prominent radio station in the area because it airs the Rush Limbaugh Show.I kid you not.Potentially even less surprising is that this County Commission, made up exclusively of Democrats, was right in the middle of…

Alexander Cockburn is certainly on a mission, albeit one that is shocking the folks at The Nation are tolerating. After all, in his current article posted at both The Nation and Counterpunch, Cockburn indirectly castigated his own readers as he accused the left of having “been swept along, entranced by the allure of weather as revolutionary agent, naïvely conceiving of global warming as a crisis…

Given the American media’s fascination with spreading global warming alarmism, how likely would it be to see the following headline in one of our papers:Top Scientist Says Biofuels Are Scam.Not very likely, right?Well, such was the headline in England’s Sunday Times today (emphasis added throughout, h/t Alister McFarquhar):

On Thursday, a NewsBusters headline asked “G-8 Statement Regarding Climate Change: Will Media Use It to Bash Bush?”The answer: Most definitely.From print to television, the formal declaration published by the group of eight most developed nations emanating from their summit in Germany was depicted as a winner for the host country’s chancellor Angela Merkel, while George W. Bush was the big meanie…

For those that have been following the G-8 summit in Germany, a formal declaration from the group has just been released (h/t Benny Peiser; section dealing with climate change begins on page 14, emphasis added throughout):Since we met in Gleneagles, science has more clearly demonstrated that climate change is a long term challenge that has the potential to seriously damage our natural environment…

On May 18, NewsBusters introduced you to Kristen Byrnes, the fabulous fifteen-year-old from Maine who had torn apart many of the myths purported by the Global Warmingist-in-Chief, soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore, in his schlockumentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”Now, the Precocious Ponderer from Portland is taking on the scientist that Gore relied on for much of his misinformation, James Hansen of NASA.In…