Posts filed under ‘ethical & philosophical’

Der Spiegel Skewers the World Wildlife Fund

A splendid and disturbing investigative feature in Der Spiegel explains why the WWF doesn’t deserve your charitable donations.

Continue Reading May 30, 2012 at 12:38 pm

Get ‘em While They’re Young

The World Wildlife Fund thinks its corporate logo should be plastered on children’s flesh.

Continue Reading April 24, 2012 at 1:05 pm

Mother Mexico & the Jackals

How are green groups different from yesterday’s colonial powers? Their global agenda is paramount, their lack of empathy for ordinary people breathtaking.

Continue Reading April 21, 2012 at 9:04 am

The WWF’s Soulless Climate Campaign

The World Wildlife Fund is using ordinary Mexicans as pawns in a geopolitical chess game.

Continue Reading April 15, 2012 at 12:15 pm

Eco Narcissists & Their Last Chances

For half a century green activists have insisted that their historical moment – and a particular generation – are the planet’s last hope.

Continue Reading April 14, 2012 at 8:45 am

Thank You, British Taxpayers

British taxpayers spent £165,937 in recent years on climate change projects here in Canada.

Continue Reading April 3, 2012 at 9:49 pm

Earth Hour: Corporations Preaching Morality

When you dim your lights for Earth Hour, you’re protesting in a manner approved by multinational corporations. You’re allowing banks and insurance companies to tell you how to spend your Saturday night.

Continue Reading March 27, 2012 at 3:28 pm

The Wealthy Corporations Behind Earth Hour

Earth Hour was brought into this world by corporations. Fairfax Media Limited – whose newspapers, magazines, and radio stations are supposed to report impartially on environmental issues – owns one-third of this annual green event.

Continue Reading March 26, 2012 at 1:49 pm

Canada’s Senate, David Suzuki & The Delinquent Teenager

My book is discussed in the Canadian Senate – and the David Suzuki Foundation behaves like a rabid dog.

Continue Reading March 21, 2012 at 4:31 pm

Fairy Tales on the Road to Rio

Nine papers are being distributed by an upcoming save-the-world conference. They’re explicitly intended to influence the behaviour of world leaders at the Rio summit in June. But the claim that they represent the latest scientific thinking is a gross distortion.

Continue Reading March 19, 2012 at 7:59 pm

The Authoritarian Impulse and Climate Change

People who want to save the planet are fond of more laws and more red tape. They talk of silencing their opponents and sending people to prison.

Continue Reading March 13, 2012 at 4:18 pm

17 Days Later, Peter Gleick is Back in the Saddle

Peter Gleick confessed to lying and stealing less than three weeks ago, but that didn’t prevent him from delivering a keynote speech to the California Water Policy Conference yesterday.

Continue Reading March 9, 2012 at 2:47 pm

Explosive Pachauri Profile in Australian Magazine

Five years before Rajendra Pachauri became chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a judge ruled that he had “sworn to false affidavits” – and that a non-profit organization was “not safe” in his hands.

Continue Reading March 2, 2012 at 2:42 pm

Where Do Gleick’s Apologists Draw the Line?

If it’s OK for scientists to lie to advance the fight against climate change what other bad behaviour is acceptable?

Continue Reading February 28, 2012 at 8:16 pm

Gleick Speak

Peter Gleick issues a statement about the Heartland documents.

Continue Reading February 20, 2012 at 10:21 pm

Big Oil Money for Me, But Not for Thee

The Sierra Club takes fossil fuel money. So does the Nature Conservancy and Rajendra Pachauri’s sustainability conference. So why is the Heartland Institute being torn to pieces for the same behaviour?

Continue Reading February 17, 2012 at 4:19 pm

The Royal Society’s Joyride

In recent years the world’s oldest science academy has been taken for a joyride. Three centuries of neutrality have been impulsively abandoned – in the name of fighting climate change.

Continue Reading February 10, 2012 at 12:45 pm

Scientific Consensus, Leadership & Stephen Schneider

Is it any wonder that young climate scientists behave badly? Their elders set the example – by hurling insults at dissenters.

Continue Reading February 8, 2012 at 9:46 am

Proselytizing to Toddlers

Many jurisdictions frown on advertising that is aimed at children. But UNESCO says nursery schools should teach kids about sustainable development.

Continue Reading February 3, 2012 at 1:49 pm

Pachauri’s 5-Star Sustainability Summit

If you were hosting a sustainability conference that criticized energy-intensive lifestyles and over-consumption, would you do it at a five-star hotel?

Continue Reading January 30, 2012 at 12:37 pm

Medical Journals Spearhead Climate Lynch Mob

Why are the editors of leading medical journals trying to suppress climate free speech? Since this isn’t their area of expertise how dare they harass those with a different point-of-view?

Continue Reading January 28, 2012 at 1:38 pm

IPCC Scientists – Guests of the Environmental Defense Fund

A powerful lobby group supplied their meeting space, helped with their travel documents & subsidized their meals. Top IPCC scientists went along for the ride.

Continue Reading January 21, 2012 at 11:36 am

Free Speech is Not Negotiable: Stop SOPA

The vibrant, international climate skeptic community owes its existence to the Internet. We must defend it.

Continue Reading January 18, 2012 at 11:16 am

Those Who Claim to Speak for the Future

A collection of NGO brats, self-important rich folks, and UN bureaucrats have taken it upon themselves to be the voice of future generations.

Continue Reading January 12, 2012 at 10:03 am

Proud To Be Canadian

First our leaders said ‘no’ to Kyoto. Then they stood up to green bullies.

Continue Reading January 10, 2012 at 11:12 pm

What Financial Meltdowns Teach Us About the IPCC

When I describe the surreal world of climate science to people who are strangers to that world I know it sounds fantastical. But there are strong parallels with the recently destroyed economies of Iceland, Greece, and Ireland.

Continue Reading January 5, 2012 at 6:02 pm

The World’s Slowest Learners

UN bureaucrats say climate change is a planetary emergency and that time is running out. So when US senators unanimously rejected the Kyoto Protocol where was Plan B?

Continue Reading December 31, 2011 at 1:11 pm

Rajendra Pachauri: Ever the Activist

According to the head of what is supposed to be a neutral scientific body, young people need to be mobilized to become major agents of change. Does it really need to be said that science is no longer science if those with activist agendas are in charge?

Continue Reading December 23, 2011 at 12:33 pm

When the Police Knock on Your Door

When six police officers visit your home for three hours, confiscate your computers, and mess with your phone line it’s little comfort to be told you aren’t a suspect.

Continue Reading December 21, 2011 at 1:57 pm

Which Other Minorities Should Be Blasted into Space?

How funny would it have been had IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri said that gays should be given a one-way ticket to outer space?

Continue Reading December 17, 2011 at 1:47 pm

Over-the-Top Climate Rhetoric

Emotional, over-the-top language doesn’t come from real leaders in a time of real crisis. Rather, it’s a sign that someone’s trying to stampede public opinion.

Continue Reading December 13, 2011 at 1:40 pm

Pachauri’s Green Torch Bearers

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is supposed to be a neutral and impartial body. But its chairman is encouraging business students to be green activists.

Continue Reading December 6, 2011 at 11:43 am

Pachauri Interviewed by Pretend Journalist

The UK’s Guardian newspaper has published a fawning article about IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri. But the article is pure propaganda. It was written by the Natural Resources Defense Council – a green lobby group that fancies itself “the Earth’s best defense.”

Continue Reading November 20, 2011 at 8:23 am

The IPCC’s Fake Review Editor

A person who “played no role whatsoever” in an IPCC chapter nevertheless signed a statement that claimed otherwise.

Continue Reading November 9, 2011 at 8:27 am

A Dark Day in Australia

Two thirds of Australians opposed the carbon tax that has just been passed, but Al Gore says this legislation is a victory for the Australian people.

Continue Reading November 8, 2011 at 9:15 am

How to Spot a Delinquent Teenager

Delinquent teenagers never take responsibility for their own actions. After they’ve set fire to the the neighbour’s sofa they insist the real issue is that the cops got the time slightly wrong.

Continue Reading November 6, 2011 at 9:38 am

Al Gore’s Money-Grubbing

Al Gore says climate change is a planetary emergency. But he’ll only tell a campus audience about it if the cheque is big enough.

Continue Reading September 12, 2011 at 11:19 am

Moral Leadership, Climate Change & the UN

The head of the UN has told the inhabitants of a country still recovering from civil war that the greatest threat to their well-being is climate change.

Continue Reading September 5, 2011 at 1:57 pm

The Journal of Climate & the IPCC

We’re supposed to trust the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s conclusions because it relies on peer-reviewed scientific literature. But many of the people who run scientific journals also write IPCC reports. This is a circular, incestuous process.

Continue Reading August 23, 2011 at 4:43 pm

Naming Names: Marine Experts Tainted by Activist Cash

The list of people who’ve accepted $150,000 from an advocacy organization is a long one. There are lots of PhDs here, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with full-blown political activists.

Continue Reading August 5, 2011 at 9:38 am

Pew, What’s That Smell?

An activist group has been funding a particular corner of scientific research to the tune of $1 million a year for more than two decades. Do we really think this hasn’t influenced how those working in that field see the world?

Continue Reading August 4, 2011 at 8:57 am

Canadian Scientists and the World Wildlife Fund

When hundreds of Canadian scientists – and 12 science bodies – joined a World Wildlife Fund ad campaign they undermined their own authority. They became politically-motivated actors in a political discussion.

Continue Reading July 29, 2011 at 10:18 am

Chris Landsea and the Moral Midgets

The scientific community expects us to trust its judgment on the question of whether global warming is the fault of human beings. But its response to the Chris Landsea affair demonstrates that that judgment is impaired.

Continue Reading July 7, 2011 at 5:02 pm

Fanaticism 101

According to someone with a PhD from Harvard, my skeptical climate change views mean one thing: I’m intent on murdering his grandchildren.

Continue Reading July 2, 2011 at 9:16 am

The Thrashing of Al Gore Continues

When skeptics argue with Al Gore about the science of climate change do they step right into a trap?

Continue Reading June 29, 2011 at 9:28 am

Walter Russell Mead Trashes Al Gore

Over the past 16 months Walter Russell Mead, a Democrat, has authored a series of bracing commentaries about what’s wrong with the green movement. Near the top of his list: Al Gore.

Continue Reading June 26, 2011 at 7:07 pm

The Activists, the Media, and the Public

When activists hoodwink the media – and questionable environmental scare stories are the result – why don’t we care?

Continue Reading June 24, 2011 at 6:34 pm

Science is Not a Tyrant

Activists, politicians, and journalists love to play the ‘science says’ game when talking about global warming. But scientific facts are one thing. How best to respond to those facts is a completely different discussion – in which we all deserve a voice.

Continue Reading June 14, 2011 at 4:42 pm

How Much Harm to Humans is OK?

An IPCC official thinks that quadrupling gasoline prices could help save the planet. What effect such a policy would have on human beings appears to be irrelevant.

Continue Reading June 11, 2011 at 3:15 pm

The IPCC as UN Funding Mechanism

You gotta love the UN. The 31-member IPCC bureau includes representatives from undemocratic and unsavoury countries such as Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Malaysia, Madagascar and the Maldives. Soon, these countries may be deciding the fate of billions of UN-administered climate change funds.

Continue Reading June 8, 2011 at 7:06 pm

Climate Change & Violent Fantasies

When did it become acceptable to pen violent fantasies about people with whom you disagree? When did it become OK to talk – luridly and out loud – about their death?

Continue Reading June 6, 2011 at 5:17 pm

David Suzuki is a Drama Queen

While the rest of us approach challenges with determination, optimism, and faith in ourselves as problem solvers, drama queens see only worst-case scenarios. They exaggerate. They emotionalize.

Continue Reading June 3, 2011 at 6:59 pm

A Story about a Farmer, a Flood & Fish

A flooded-out farmer is fighting for his economic survival. Rather than assisting him, environmental bureaucrats are contributing to his nightmare.

Continue Reading May 28, 2011 at 11:05 am

No Harmony with Hogweed

People who think we should live in harmony with nature usually forget to mention poisonous plants.

Continue Reading May 24, 2011 at 10:18 pm

Swedish Show Trial

Rather than championing logic and reason, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences now stages political theatre. Humanity is accused, tried, and convicted in a “court case” in which the verdict was determined in advance.

Continue Reading May 19, 2011 at 9:36 am

The IPCC, the UK, and Climate Censorship

When British delegates attempt to censor speakers at a Russian Academy of Science climate change event that’s a clue that science has left the building.

Continue Reading May 16, 2011 at 3:37 pm

Blindspots at the IPCC

A new 1,000-page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report appears to ignore both nuclear power and shale gas – even though both these energy sources emit far less CO2 than does coal. This suggests the IPCC’s top priority isn’t emissions reduction after all.

Continue Reading May 13, 2011 at 1:36 pm

The Climate Caper

Written by a senior Australian scientist, The Climate Caper explores some of the reasons why official IPCC science has become so pervasive. For one thing, it’s affiliated with huge government agencies employing large numbers of civil servant scientists.

Continue Reading May 9, 2011 at 4:57 pm

Fixed: the IPCC’s Climate Model Evaluation Game

Each IPCC report includes a chapter that evaluates climate models. Is this written by disinterested parties who take a cold, hard look at the strengths & weaknesses of these analytical tools? Nope. It’s authored by people whose livelihoods depend on climate models.

Continue Reading May 3, 2011 at 2:00 pm

The Case of Michael Oppenheimer

Perhaps the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change doesn’t regard activist scientists as damaged goods because neither the National Academy of Sciences nor the American Association for the Advancement of Science does, either.

Continue Reading May 1, 2011 at 9:02 pm

When the Lights Go Out

Having just spent 17 hours without electricity, I’m feeling especially keen on a stable energy supply.

Continue Reading April 29, 2011 at 9:29 am

Ka-Ching! More Greenpeace Money

One of the most senior authors for the upcoming climate bible has spent the past 17 years cashing cheques from Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund.

Continue Reading April 22, 2011 at 10:26 am

Foul Play on Facebook

Climate skeptic pages on Facebook were recently targeted. Our content was alleged to be “abusive” and the ability of readers to share it was temporarily blocked.

Continue Reading April 10, 2011 at 10:17 am

The IPCC’s Pretend Neutrality

Actions speak louder the words. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims to be impartial and evenhanded – but that’s not how it behaves.

Continue Reading April 4, 2011 at 10:47 pm

Politically Incorrect Prof May Lose His Job

A UCLA professor who found no link between a certain kind of air pollution and premature death is fighting to keep his job. But the state employee with the fake PhD merely got demoted.

Continue Reading April 1, 2011 at 4:49 pm

Why is Humanity Always the Fall Guy?

Museums acknowledge that, historically, Mother Nature killed off fish and caused glaciers to retreat. So why do these same institutions imply that similar events in the here-and-now are solely the fault of humans?

Continue Reading March 31, 2011 at 4:24 pm

Earth Hour? I’ll Take a ‘No Nagging’ Hour

As a young woman I embraced feminism because I didn’t want to be bossed around by men. These days it’s greens who want to regulate my behaviour.

Continue Reading March 23, 2011 at 4:31 pm

Earth to Scientists

Half a century ago, a science journalist discovered that anything less than reverential reporting was interpreted by scientists as hostility. It would seem that climate scientists who label critics ‘anti-science’ come from a long tradition.

Continue Reading March 18, 2011 at 3:06 pm

Dr Nadelhoffer, I’m Not Impressed

An expert who testified to Congress this week reached well beyond his own scientific expertise. By advocating a particular response to climate change he brings science into disrepute.

Continue Reading March 11, 2011 at 8:41 am

Fiddling While Infants Perish

13 times as many children die before their first birthday in Rwanda as in Canada or the UK. Most people live below the poverty line, and 3 out of 10 are illiterate. Yet a UN official says Rwanda has demonstrated “leadership” by banning plastic bags.

Continue Reading March 8, 2011 at 11:50 am

Green Math: Let’s Spend a Billion to Save $8 Million

The person in charge of green energy projects for a group of Los Angeles community colleges wanted to cut down trees and obliterate playing fields so that $1 billion could be spent on alternative energy installations. Power currently costs these colleges less than $8 million a year.

Continue Reading March 7, 2011 at 11:50 am

Scientists Speak Out

Two physics professors – one in America and one in the UK – are condemning the behaviour of prominent climate scientists. They say it’s a violation of scientific honesty and integrity.

Continue Reading March 2, 2011 at 7:56 pm

Not Your Grandfather’s Greenpeace

Environmental activist organizations are all grown up now. We need to adjust our thinking accordingly.

Continue Reading March 1, 2011 at 11:24 am

Environmentalism Runs Amok

Nearly half a century after the first Earth Day, the chessboard has changed dramatically. The players with the power, the war chests, and the influence are different now.

Continue Reading February 27, 2011 at 7:33 pm

You Doubt Monger, You

When environmentalists organize themselves, fund-raise, and try to spread their message this is considered legitimate democratic activity. Yet the minute climate skeptics do the same we’re accused of being doubt-mongers who manufacture uncertainty in order to mislead the public.

Continue Reading February 25, 2011 at 7:37 pm

Flying Cars and Sewing Machines

People who look into the future and see only environmental devastation have lost their sense of wonder.

Continue Reading February 24, 2011 at 7:12 pm

Scientists Have Allowed Themselves to Be Used

An award-winning meteorologist says he’s ashamed of – and embarrassed by – his profession.

Continue Reading February 19, 2011 at 11:40 pm

Friday Giggles

On those days when one doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry, I choose to laugh. The Daily Bayonet blog contrasts so completely with anything available from the mainstream media one can’t help wondering what the world would be like if this gent were a late-night comic.

Continue Reading February 18, 2011 at 11:30 pm

It Isn’t a Conspiracy – It’s Just Money, Fashion & Power

If much of the world were to snap out of it and realize that global warming has been over-hyped, large companies would lose hundreds of billions.

Continue Reading February 14, 2011 at 12:00 pm

How Do You Say ‘Independent’ in Australian?

Any government body headed by eco-campaigner Tim Flannery cannot possibly be considered “independent”.

Continue Reading February 13, 2011 at 11:17 am

Bill McKibben’s Bad Example

Those seemingly nice people brimming with such concern for the planet are actually profoundly intolerant.

Continue Reading February 11, 2011 at 3:33 pm

Michael Crichton’s Legacy

The late Michael Crichton drew our attention to the startling lack of rigour in climate science when compared to drug testing.

Continue Reading February 10, 2011 at 2:44 pm

Teachers: the New Green Police

Canadian teachers (who are employees of the state) are attempting to dictate how children’s lunchbox sandwiches get packaged. Intruding so intimately into people’s private lives is not an acceptable way to save the planet.

Continue Reading February 1, 2011 at 11:06 am

Credit Where It’s Due

A news account suggests Michael Oppenheimer is a class act. Rather than calling climate skeptics “deniers” he admits they might be smart people.

Continue Reading January 29, 2011 at 10:49 am

The Sad State of the Debate

According to some people, only a “climatologist” can be a credible scientific voice in the climate debate. Why do we spend so much time trying to disqualify people – rather than addressing their ideas?

Continue Reading January 17, 2011 at 6:43 pm

Is the IPCC a Scrutiny-Free Zone?

A senior author thinks the IPCC should take a stand by declaring Freedom of Information requests a form of harassment.

Continue Reading January 16, 2011 at 5:54 pm

The Silent Treatment

Should AGW proponents acknowledge critics? Or should they avert their eyes and block their ears?

Continue Reading January 14, 2011 at 5:37 pm

If You Don’t Believe in Global Warming, the Terrorists Win

A writer fabricates imaginary Osama bin Laden opinions. Then he fabricates imaginary climate skeptic opinions. The fact that they’re identical, he says, proves that skeptics are morally reprehensible “deniers” who should be ignored.

Continue Reading January 3, 2011 at 5:05 pm

Celebrating Science

A web comic that reminds us what’s powerful, noble, and inspiring about the scientific endeavour.

Continue Reading January 1, 2011 at 8:17 am

Have a Little Faith

Humans are ingenious and creative and resourceful. Whatever challenges the future may hold, we shall overcome.

Continue Reading December 25, 2010 at 9:06 am

Blood Supply Threatened by Green Extremism

For every green idea that truly makes sense, there’s half a dozen dumb ones. When bureaucrats promote these dumb ideas communities lose their bloodmobiles.

Continue Reading December 23, 2010 at 12:42 pm

The UN’s Grim Fantasy: One-Child Laws

Ted Turner has fathered five children. But he thinks China’s coercive one-child policies should be exported to other countries. Why aren’t other UN officials scrambling to distance themselves from his remarks?

Continue Reading December 9, 2010 at 8:52 pm

World War II Rationing – the ‘Hated Sacrifice’

Some people argue that energy rationing of the sort imposed during wartime is necessary to save the planet. But World War II rationing made life miserable for ordinary people. It also nourished the black market & organized crime.

Continue Reading December 1, 2010 at 4:11 pm

Why Good Judgment Matters

Data is collected, recorded, adjusted & interpreted not by disinterested robots but by people. Because highly-educated individuals can look at the same data and come to different conclusions, the degree to which a person’s judgment can be trusted becomes a central concern.

Continue Reading November 28, 2010 at 11:02 am

Appalling Rhetoric from a Climate Skeptic

The climate change debate is important. Human lives (and trillions of dollars) hang in the balance. We therefore need open, vigorous dialogue. We need to hear all perspectives. But this can’t happen when both sides are trying to shut down the debate by declaring other people’s views criminal.

Continue Reading November 26, 2010 at 12:00 pm

The Non-Stop Disaster Narrative (2-minute video)

One environmental scare story always seems to follow another. Even though the predicted disasters never materialize, we still believe the latest one.

Continue Reading November 22, 2010 at 3:29 pm

Lest We Forget the Importance of Liberty

To a large degree the climate change story is a media story. Journalists are supposed to be guard dogs, not lap dogs. Instead, they’ve become arbiters of scientific truth – refusing to report on non-conformist perspectives.

Last of a five-part series.

Continue Reading November 11, 2010 at 9:32 am

Margaret Atwood Should Resign From PEN International

As Vice President of PEN International, Margaret Atwood has pledged to oppose “any form of suppression of freedom of expression.”

But she sits on a board directors with a man who says some people have no right to free speech. She has written the foreword to a book by David Suzuki – who thinks politicians should be jailed for their climate change views. She has also encouraged her Twitter followers to visit a web page that says a TV station that hasn’t even begun broadcasting should be stopped.

Continue Reading November 10, 2010 at 2:02 pm

Slaying the Unicorn

The campaign against ‘Fox News North’ threatens the intellectual freedom of all Canadians.

Continue Reading November 8, 2010 at 3:29 pm

Speech Crimes & Ethics 101

An ethics professor thinks corporations that challenge climate dogma should be charged with a new kind of crime against humanity.

Strangely, he’s unconcerned that a representative of the violent & unsavoury Sudanese government fills one of the IPCC’s four most prominent positions.

Continue Reading October 28, 2010 at 4:13 pm

Local Government Is Not About Being Green

Local government is supposed to be about water, sewer, garbage collection, police and ambulance services. So why are so many election candidates obsessed with the environment? Canadian taxpayers already fund environment ministries at two other levels of government.

Continue Reading October 25, 2010 at 12:18 pm

Blood & Gore Against Global Warming

A UK green group has produced an advertisement in which people (including school children) who exhibit insufficient enthusiasm for reducing their carbon footprint are blown to pieces. Yep, they are cavalierly murdered while those in the vicinity get splattered with blood and gore.

Continue Reading September 30, 2010 at 9:27 pm

The Politics of Fear

According to many commentators, conservatives are now ascendant because they have invoked the politics of fear.

So where are the denunciations of the politics of fear employed by greens? They’ve played that hand for years – exploiting & targeting kids in the process.

Continue Reading September 24, 2010 at 12:31 pm

Can We Recycle Bono?

Climate change activist Bono now appears in Louis Vuitton ads – a $1200 bag slung over his shoulder. How exactly does extreme conspicuous consumption fight global warming?

Continue Reading September 22, 2010 at 1:20 pm

Anti-Science Claim Is Devoid of Meaning

During the first half of this month, activist-scientist-blogger Joe Romm described other people as anti-science on 16 separate occasions. This is the equivalent of a toddler calling everyone from the babysitter to grandad a poopy head.

Continue Reading September 17, 2010 at 11:14 am

The Legal Disclaimers Behind the Climate Science

Dangerous climate change is supposed to be such “settled science” we’re being told to transform the way we live & work. Yet some of the parties promoting this view are covering their butts by protecting themselves from legal consequences.

Continue Reading June 28, 2010 at 4:30 pm

Intellectual Freedom

The American Library Association defines intellectual freedom as the “right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view.” Eco activists who attempt to silence the voices of climate skeptics threaten intellectual freedom as well as free speech.

Continue Reading May 20, 2010 at 11:26 am

Shielding Climate Orthodoxy from Free Speech

American professors are encouraging journalism students to suppress certain kinds of news so that the public won’t be confused by climate skepticism. This turns journalists into arbiters of truth and treats the public like children.

Continue Reading May 5, 2010 at 3:35 pm

The Water Cannon of the Climate Debate

The climate bible is the ultimate weapon in the global warming debate. Skeptics are told the experts have spoken and that carbon dioxide is the Great Satan.

Continue Reading April 15, 2010 at 12:12 pm

The Battle for the Soul of Science

The public is being told that to doubt global warming is to be anti-science and that to question behaviour reminiscent of adolescent gamers is to “attack” climate scientists for doing their job. It’s time the grown-ups in the scientific community made themselves heard.

Continue Reading March 2, 2010 at 4:45 pm

Al Gore Blows Tobacco Smoke in Our Face – Again

Al Gore’s family raised tobacco for years. He boasted about his involvement with this crop on the election campaign trail, and accepted donations from big tobacco. With supreme hypocrisy he now attempts to discredit climate skeptics by connecting them rhetorically to this unpopular industry.

Continue Reading February 28, 2010 at 4:35 pm

Let There Be No More Scientific Consensuses

Science is about doubt – not certainty. Journalism is supposed to reveal – not conceal. When scientific organizations claim there’s a consensus, they step over the line into political advocacy. When media outlets trumpet said consensus they “disappear” highly-qualified, dissenting scientists.

Continue Reading February 26, 2010 at 5:55 pm

Is This Politics or Science?

For those of us who think science is about being open to new ideas and perspectives, Michael “hockey stick” Mann isn’t the kind of scientist we’d want our kids to grow up to be.

Continue Reading February 19, 2010 at 2:02 pm

Valentine’s Day and the Scientific Method

Real science tells all. It doesn’t hide results that don’t conform to expectations.

Continue Reading February 14, 2010 at 3:14 am

Audi’s "Green Police" Superbowl Ad

Talk about bringing one’s agenda to the party. A vegetarian green entrepreneur thinks the ad is an example of advertising that “casts environmentalists…as wack-jobs.” Someone else demonstrates his Christian beliefs by calling people with whom he disagrees a long list of names.

Continue Reading February 8, 2010 at 12:06 pm

If We Don’t Agree, You’re Crazy

A businessman who believes in a diversity of climate opinions, and who thinks a certain amount of hysteria has been associated with global warming is declared mentally ill by a green blogger.

Continue Reading January 5, 2010 at 12:27 pm

Science Says: Hop on One Foot

Scientific investigation produces facts. But even when we have full confidence in the accuracy of these facts we must still choose how to respond to them. When activists insist there’s only one possible response they’re attempting to preempt important democratic discussions, to silence our voices, to substitute their own views for those of the community.

Continue Reading December 19, 2009 at 11:41 am

Copenhagen Banner: Scrap Capitalism

Climate change protesters who decline to distance themselves from the capitalism-is-the-problem crowd aren’t really serious. If they were, they’d declare loudly that the merits of various political systems is a separate debate.

Continue Reading December 13, 2009 at 10:25 am

Bullies Need Not Apply

Rather than working to persuade the skeptically-minded, global warming activists condemn. They name-call. They accuse. This isn’t the sort of behaviour one associates with an iron-clad case.

Continue Reading November 13, 2009 at 8:41 pm

On Saying the Debate is Over (2-minute video)

A 2-minute video about why it’s not OK for one party in a discussion to unilaterally declare that “the debate is over.” Full text provided.

Continue Reading October 13, 2009 at 9:31 am

The Honest Broker

A moderate and pragmatic voice in the climate debate, Roger Pielke Jr. argues in this book, The Honest Broker, that scientists deserve this label when they present a variety of options to the public – rather than advocating a single course of action.

Continue Reading September 27, 2009 at 4:59 pm

The Age of Regret

The Age of Stupid is a fictional film about the future. It says current humans are too dumb & self-absorbed to pay attention to the threat of global warming. I propose a different scenario: What shall I say to my grandchildren when they ask me why I did nothing as every facet of daily life became assessed, inspected & regulated by eco bureaucrats? What shall I say when they ask me why I allowed personal liberties to slip away?

Continue Reading September 21, 2009 at 3:22 pm

How Much Is a Bird’s Life Worth?

Oil companies get fined $7,000 per bird for inadvertently harming wildlife. Yet society ignores the predictable massacre of thousands of birds by wind farms. Are we protecting wildlife – or harassing oil companies?

Continue Reading August 21, 2009 at 2:54 pm

Al Gore Thinks Your Brain Is Too Primitive

It seems not to have crossed Al Gore’s mind that some of us consider his arguments flawed, his data suspect & his rhetoric overwrought. Instead, he prefers to believe that human neo cortexes are too primitive – that we’re biologically incapable of grasping his apocalyptic message.

Continue Reading July 18, 2009 at 12:11 am

Do As I Say, Not As I Do

Greenpeace thinks climate skeptics should be silent because a “scientific consensus” has established that dangerous climate change is real. Yet Greenpeace’s active opposition to genetically modified foods flies in the face of another scientific consensus – the one that says such products are safe.

Continue Reading July 2, 2009 at 9:38 pm

Good Girl, Bad Girl

We are all entitled to ask questions – about anything, but particularly about a topic that is rarely absent from the daily news. Yet according to a spokeswoman for the United Nations it is immoral and irresponsible to question climate change.

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