The Source of Europe's Mild Climate The notion that the Gulf Stream is responsible for keeping Europe anomalously warm turns out to be a myth. - Richard Seager, July-August 2006 [American Scientist]
The Global Warming Scam - Nima Sanandaji and Fred Goldberg, March 18, 2006 [LewRockwell.com]
'State of Fear' - Charley Reese, March 1, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]
Climate change claims flawed, says study A team of scientists has condemned claims of climate catastrophe as "fatally flawed" in a report released today. - Tim Radford, November 9, 2004 [The Guardian]
A Hoax to Raise Our Consciousness Lots of people have spilled ink—including the New York Times—about the disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow. - Art Carden, June 14, 2004 [Mises]
Beyond Tomorrow: Some Not So Special Effects The bottom line: Global warming almost certainly exists. But in ages past, it's proved to be cyclical. The fact that we happen to be at the beginning of such a cyclical up tick has nothing to do with fossil fuel burning or anything else. - Lady Liberty, June 13, 2004 [The Libertarian Enterprise]
Liars! Liars! Green Pants on Fire! No, millions of species will not go extinct by 2050, but one can fervently pray that the environmental movement will. - Alan Caruba, February 5, 2004 [Capitalism Magazine]
Global Warming: Nature or Nurture? It appears that the issue of global warming is a bit more complicated than those in the major media outlets and the environmentalist organizations would want us to believe. It also appears that our "fragile ecosystem" is a bit more robust than they would have us believe. - Kevin Van Cott, May 24, 2003 [Mises]
New Year Begins with Old Green Lies It is a disgrace that the Associated Press and other news organization continue to report these bogus predictions, all of which conclude that global warming is occurring. - Alan Caruba, January 15, 2003 [Capitalism Magazine]
Are the Media Giving You the Whole Story on Global Warming? Most media reports ignore the evidence for cooling and focus instead on records from land stations, which indicate a 1°F increase in surface temperatures during the 20th century. What they fail to report is that this increase was measured mostly in and around urban centers, and therefore indicates urban—not global—warming. - David Holcberg, November 1, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]
Steamed over global warming Just last week, U.S. scientists based at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station announced that, finally, they have been able to measure the temperature of the atmosphere 18 to 68 miles over the pole. They found it to be 68 to 86 degrees Fahrenheit colder than those computer models used to predict global warming showed. - Jane Chastain, September 19, 2002 [WorldNetDaily]
Drought-Inspired Climate Panic These calculations are not difficult, and a course in applied climatology wouldn't hurt those who glibly blame this year's drought on global warming. - Patrick J. Michaels, September 16, 2002 [CATO]
Bush Administration Speaks with Forked Tongue on Global Warming ...his administration submitted a report to the United Nations that blames human activities for climate change and predicts environmental doom unless consumers significantly change their ways. - Charli Coon, August 10, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]
Global Lying The campaign to stampede the federal government into drastic action to counter "global warming" has never let honesty cramp its style. - Thomas Sowell, June 10, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]
The global warming sell-out The Democrats may not have a charismatic leader on the horizon. But George W. Bush just made sure they won't need one to win in 2004. - Joseph Farah, June 7, 2002 [WorldNetDaily]
Your Friend Global Warming I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised anymore when bad ideas persist despite a complete lack of evidence, but then, environmentalism, that great past-time of over-educated white people with too much free time was never terribly fact driven anyway. - Ryan McMaken, February 12, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
The National Academy of Dubious Science The National Academy of Sciences' pronouncements are made in a dual language, a cross between scientific jargon and bureaucratese. For the uninitiated, here is a translation. - Robert Tracinski, July 8, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]
The Scientist Trap The National Academy of Sciences report does not provide a valid scientific basis for global warming, nor does it show a scientific consensus on the issue. - Robert Tracinski, July 2, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]
The ozone hole is bigger than ever "If you haven't heard anything about the ozone hole over Antarctica lately, it isn't because it has gone away. Quite the contrary. Despite the fact that the chlorofluorocarbons – CFCs – that were supposed to be causing it have been banned for many years, the Antarctic ozone hole, whose appearances were largely responsible for the international decision to ban the use of CFCs, is bigger than ever." - Reed Irvine, June 23, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]
Global Hot Air So much for "science" having "proved" global warming and its human causation. Scientists were used as window-dressing for a report made by government officials. - Thomas Sowell, July 23, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]
The press corps covers global warming "When President George W. Bush was in Europe last week, 'global warming' again was in the news." - Jude Wanniski, June 20, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]
Badgering Bush on global warming "America's intellectual elite and the media dupes who parrot them have redefined patriotism and national self-interest. They and the socialists in Europe call President Bush an isolationist and a unilateralist because he will not cooperate in the leveling of America's greatness and the elevation of a global government, whose mission is to enforce an equal distribution of misery throughout the world." - Linda Bowles, June 19, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]
Europe agenda and Kyoto "There's more to Bush's trip than environment issue" - June 14, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]
Our planet in danger? "When President George Bush announced a few months after his inauguration that the United States would not implement the Kyoto Protocol on global warning, his political opponents in the Democrat Party publicly deplored what he had done and privately celebrated it." - Linda Bowles, May 30, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]
Jeffords' Green Agenda "The truth is that Kyoto and global warming will be the focus of Jeffords’ Environment Committee. Expect him to parade witness after witness, on the hottest summer days, decrying Bush & Co. for being 'out of touch' with the world on this issue." - Patrick J. Michaels, May 29, 2001 [CATO]
Eco-wackos and the Blue Planet "The global-warming eco-wackos claim that all you SUV-driving soccer moms are hell bent on frying the planet — and you've got to stop right this minute!" - Gordon Prather, May 26, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]
The Amazing Disappearing, Reappearing Artic Ice Cap "Greg Holloway, a scientist with the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia...presented a paper to an international gathering of Arctic scientists in which he argued that the Arctic ice cap is not melting." - Robert Tracinski, May 7, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]
Obesity and Global Warming: A Catch-22? "What goes unnoticed in these campaigns for justice in health and the environment is that six billion overweight people might keep a lot of carbon out of the atmosphere." - David Dieteman, January 26, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
Global Warming Hot Air Courtesy of the U.N. "Consumers ought to be glad that efforts to amend a treaty that would severely limit the 'greenhouse gases' thought to fuel global warming went down in flames at a recent United Nations conference in The Hague." - Angela Antonelli, December 26, 2000 [Capitalism Magazine]
Applying the Precautionary Principle to Global Warming "...using this principle could increase risks to public health and the environment if it is only applied to the potential harms, but not the possible consequences of the precautionary measures themselves." - December 12, 2000 [NCPA]
New Climate Scares Are Politics As Usual "The reality of that human nature is fortunate. For despite what the environmental scaremongers say, the world loses nothing by waiting – even if global warming proves to be real, which is still much in doubt." - James K. Glassman, November 1, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]
Canning Kyoto - Alan Keyes, September 16, 2000 [WorldNetDaily]
Exploring the Science of Climate Change - A Plain English Guide "The theory of human-caused, or 'anthropogenic,' climate change may be simple to state, but it is a deceptive simplicity. Unlike Einstein’s 'E=MC2,' the theory of anthropogenic climate change is not a single, mathematical theory. The theory of anthropogenic climate change is actually a cluster of interlocking theories, some well defined, others less well defined." - August 2000 [RPPI]
Is your SUV warming the planet? Instead of putting the brakes on our growth, and punishing the one region of the planet that's not making a net contribution to greenhouse gases, perhaps other countries should follow our lead in creating a high-tech economy. - James K. Glassman, June 19, 2000 [WorldNetDaily]
Global warming hot air The Kyoto Protocol is, thus, a scheme of global central planning based on claims of greater-than-human foresight and knowledge. - Alan Keyes, April 8, 2000 [WordNetDaily]
The Collapsing Scientific Cornerstones of Global Warming Theory James Hansen, whose 1988 pronouncements started the clamor for action to prevent global warming, wrote in the 1998 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that 'the forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.' So much for being sure. - H. Sterling Burnett, June 30, 1999 [NCPA]
NGOs drive global climate agenda Of the 1389 registered participants attending the global warming talks in Bonn, more than half have come to lobby the delegates. - Henry Lamb, June 8, 1999 [WorldNetDaily]
Environmental Myth Report Lots of environmental scares exist without any scientific foundation, but catastrophic global warming must take the cake when it comes to hype. - Fred Singer, February 6, 1999 [Capitalism Magazine]
The Hot Air Emanates from Washington Messrs. Clinton and Gore can shelve the Kyoto Protocol, a blueprint for government central planning that will steal our liberty and stifle our living standards. - Sheldon Richman, January 1999 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]
Global Warming: Fact and Myth Undiluted hype about global warming and climate disasters is polluting the journals and airwaves; multimillion-dollar propaganda campaigns are underway by environmental activists, generously financed by compliant foundations and by government grants. - Fred Singer, December 25, 1998 [Capitalism Magazine]
Global Warming: The Scorecard Thus Far Misleading public characterizations of the global warming debate notwithstanding, the case for the Kyoto Protocol is pretty threadbare. Of course, the Senate is unlikely to ratify the treaty, a fact conceded by the administration in its decision not to send it up for a vote until at least 2001. If the past is any prologue, the case for ratification will continue to weaken. The question is, Will anyone be able to see through the political hot air to notice? - Jerry Taylor, December 3, 1998 [CATO]
Global Warming - Hot Problem or Hot Air? Speaking at the "El Niño summit" in Santa Monica last fall, Gore said that "El Niño events have become much more common and much stronger," suggesting that human activity is warming the globe. - Jonathan H. Adler, April 1998 [Liberty Haven]
Global Warming Heresy The Most climatologists agree that the earth's temperature has increased about a degree over the last century. The debate is how much of it is due to mankind's activity. - Walter Williams, March 27, 2007 [Capitalism Magazine]
Global Warming and Hurricanes: Still No Connection While the impacts of the currently active hurricane period are being felt especially hard in the United States, there remains no scientific proof that human contributions to an enhanced greenhouse effect are the root cause. - Patrick Mullins, September 24, 2005 [Capitalism Magazine]
Global warming on Mars – without SUVs! Planet experiencing increased temperatures despite lack of humankind. - Joseph Farrah, December 10, 2003 [WorldNetDaily]
Unprecedented Global Warming? This review of the post–ice-age epoch shows that global warming is, in reality, both common and natural. - Michael Heberling, May 2001 [FEE]
Recent Warming is Not Historically Unique The pattern of frequent and rapid changes in climate throughout the Holocene indicates that the warming of the last 100 years is not a unique event and is thus not an indication of human impact on the climate, as is frequently claimed. - Sallie Baliunas Ph.D. and Willie Soon Ph.D., April 17, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]
Mandatory Restrictions on Emissions of Greenhouse Gases Coming on top of separate new research that shows clearly that the 20th Century is not the warmest period on record, the Charles River study should discourage Senators concerned about the uncertain U.S. economic recovery from approving McCain-Lieberman -- which would raise energy costs, reduce consumer spending, and kill jobs. - James K. Glassman, October 30, 2003 [Capitalism Magazine]
Global Warming vs. Prosperity Green’s attempt to cut carbon dioxide emissions lacks supporting scientific evidence and will harm the country’s prosperity. - David Holcberg, March 21, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]
Fatalities of Kyoto If the case for Kyoto is to be made, advocates must acknowledge how many lives it will take to reduce the threat of global warming. - Roy Cordato and James Carter, June 15, 1999 [Mises]
Government and the Weather Officially, communism is dead, but the bureaucratic obsession with controlling the weather lives on in Washington, D.C. - James M. Sheehan, December 1997 [Mises]
Warming People Up for Government Control Government is not good at producing wealth. On the contrary, it limits the key precondition for production, liberty. - Sheldon Richman, July 1997 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]
