Category archive: Global Warming
‘Climate Vote Project’ wants nations held to ‘legally binding climate protection’
By Chuck Roger • August 29th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér A few weeks ago in a post titled, “Education Dep’t Tells Kids: All You Need Is Global Warmism, So Give Peace a Chance” (originally ran as “Education Department indoctrinates kids in global warming myths” in American Thinker), I noted that government ideologues are pushing climate change falsehoods on schoolchildren in order to [...]
Education Dep’t Tells Kids: All You Need Is Global Warmism, So Give Peace a Chance
By Chuck Roger • August 5th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Ideologues in our federal government are pushing falsehoods on children in order to spread the doctrine of the Church of Global Warming. CNSNews.com reports that the Department of Education hosted an event in which children were read scientifically baseless claims from books featuring Sponge Bob Square Pants and [...]
Dissecting Progressive Arrogance, Part VII: ‘Climate Change’ Follies
By Chuck Roger • July 15th, 2011 12:00 am
The Clear Thinking blog is on hiatus and will return with new posts on July 18, 2011. Meanwhile, please enjoy this re-post of the “Dissecting progressive arrogance” series. More “Dissecting Progressive Arrogance” I, II, III, IV, V, VI By Chuck Rogér Progressive Arrogance 101 Main Learning: The ability to role model ideological zealotry an utter [...]
Obama’s Symbolic Chevy Volt Folly
By Chuck Roger • June 8th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker, May 31, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Among 116 electric cars that the Obama administration intends to buy with taxpayer money, 101 will be Chevy Volts. The program will also include installing charging stations in San Francisco, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego and Washington, D.C. According to USA Today, “The moves are [...]
Gingrich’s Disturbing Affection for Government Intervention in the Private Sector
By Chuck Roger • May 2nd, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér In 1994, Newt Gingrich complained vigorously about a Democrat-controlled Congress’s fiscal irresponsibility. Representative Gingrich led a successful campaign by Republicans to take over the House and Senate in the 1994 Election. At the heart of the Republican game plan was the Contract with America, a key element of which was the Fiscal [...]
Ice, Arrogant Ignorance, and Global Warmism
By Chuck Roger • April 29th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker, April 25, 2011 By Chuck Rogér The latest global warming derangement? In order to stop “imperiling the planet,” turn off your refrigerator’s icemaker. To appreciate the depth of madness to which warmists are now routinely sinking, let’s identify the fallacies contained in a sentence lifted from a recent Time magazine post. [...]
Dissecting Progressive Arrogance, Part VII: ‘Climate Change’ Follies
By Chuck Roger • April 22nd, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér More “Dissecting Progressive Arrogance” I, II, III, IV, V, VI Progressive Arrogance 101 Main Learning: The ability to role model ideological zealotry an utter disregard for fact and logic the gullibility to swallow other zealots’ twists of fact and logic ignorance of the scientific method self-righteous preachiness and a superior attitude in [...]
Straw Man Environmental Alarmism 101, California Style
By Chuck Roger • April 15th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, April 14, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Course Description: Learn to craft false statements that appear factual and to justify “fixes” for imaginary problems. The student learns how to apply said fixes to an agenda which addresses environmentalists’ most precious issue: human-caused global warming. Course Instructor: An associate transportation planner with the [...]
California Assembly Outlaws Economics 101
By Chuck Roger • April 12th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér The California Assembly has passed a bill, which if signed by Governor Brown, will legally compel power companies to generate a third of the state’s electricity from sources such as solar, wind, and geothermal energy by 2020, a 1000 percent increase in nine years. Peter Miller, a senior scientist at the NRDC [...]
Fossilgate: CO2-belching ‘industry’ existed 50 million years ago
By Chuck Roger • March 29th, 2011 12:00 am
A team of Scripps Institute of Oceanography and UC San Diego researchers has released the results of a study indicating the occurrence of “hyperthermal” events that warmed Earth’s atmosphere as much as 5.4°F 50 million years ago. Rumor has it that horrified Church of Global Warming brethren are holding panic-filled teleconferences to determine how to [...]
Enter the USDA, to Rescue Americans From… Something
By Chuck Roger • March 23rd, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, February 12, 2010. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced an initiative of a type which has never succeeded in the history of civilization: centralized government planning. Espousing the unsubstantiated belief that CO2-induced “climate change” is already reducing food and lumber crop yields, the USDA now claims the ability to use [...]
The decline of science due to user problems, Part II: sexy birds, money, and ‘climate change’
By Chuck Roger • January 28th, 2011 12:30 am
Yesterday’s post addressed how human nature can corrupt the scientific method. At the core of the discussion was a study conducted by psychologist Jonathan Schooler and summarized by Jonah Lehrer. Here is the crux of the argument presented as to why many of today’s scientific investigations yield non-reproducible (in other words, wrong) conclusions. Scientists, mere [...]
Using real science to dismantle the pretend science of global warmists
By Chuck Roger • January 25th, 2011 12:30 am
You’d think that with so many very cold, snowy winters, as well as objective climate research finally being conducted, that global warming zealots would give it a rest. Here’s a January 12 National Snow Analysis satellite image from the National Weather Service showing the United States 71% covered in snow. (Hat tip to Anthony Watts [...]
‘Consensus’ science, global warming, and Obama’s reality-blind EPA
By Chuck Roger • January 19th, 2011 12:30 am
Three of the last four winters in the Northern Hemisphere, including the current winter, have been very cold and snowy. Hmm. Anthony Watts, who runs the Watts Up With That? website, recently posted a synopsis of certain aspects of the sun’s activity over the last ten years. The post is worth a look, especially if you’re [...]
The Sierra Club’s Mission
By Chuck Roger • January 10th, 2011 12:30 am
Originally in American Thinker, December 24, 2010. “Don’t you care about global warming?” asked a sign carried by a Sierra Club demonstrator. The preachy admonishment packs the same intellectual weightiness as “Free the color purple!” Well-adjusted people “care” about neither purple nor global warming. Colors and recurring natural climate phenomena fly below the radars of emotionally [...]
Tom Vilsack: deacon in the Church of Global Warming, Agriculture Secretary, and waster of taxpayer money
By Chuck Roger • December 17th, 2010 5:39 am
When CNSNews.com informed Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack of the scientific fact that there has been no global warming since 1995, the man said: Well, all I can say is the vast majority of scientists and researchers believe that there has been a significant climate change, which has occurred. There are some indications that this decade [...]
New America Foundation president pushes carbon tax and ‘green’ economic fallacies
By Chuck Roger • December 14th, 2010 5:50 am
Republicans seem poised to get the Bush tax cuts extended. This has contributed to a “dismal two weeks for [Obama's] economic policy,” says Ted Halstead in a Financial Times commentary. Halstead is founder and president of the New America Foundation. When you see “New America” in the name of an organization, you know that you’re [...]
Army Corps of Engineers ‘climate change’ nonsense: the one ten-millionth of 1% solution
By Chuck Roger • December 2nd, 2010 6:40 am
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to do something pointless in order to solve a problem that does not exist. In a “Statement of Purpose” for its “Environmental Community of Practice Commuter Survey 2010,” the Corps notes: Executive Order 13514, Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance, has directed the establishment of an [...]
The ‘green’ technology fallacy
By Chuck Roger • October 29th, 2010 2:13 am
One day, you’re going to drive an all-natural car fueled by exhaling your planet-killing CO2 into an organic tube plumbed to the car’s magic power chamber–painted green of course. This will solve two problems at once. The evil global-warming-inducing CO2 will be magically annihilated and you won’t have to use infinitely more evil fossil fuel, [...]
The myth of ‘unprecedented warming’
By Chuck Roger • October 25th, 2010 9:15 pm
Let’s say that you live in a really cold place. Yet lately, winters haven’t been all that brutal. In fact, for about twenty years, the snow pack in your yard has been melting down thinner and thinner during most summers. One day, a pale, emaciated man with a glued-on expression of torment knocks on your [...]
Euro global warmists cheer the great gas reduction, their own demise, and China’s rise
By Chuck Roger • October 21st, 2010 2:21 am
Last week, London’s Guardian website smiled on Europe’s global warming alarmists, who seem tickled green with the Continent’s progress toward Kyoto “greenhouse” emissions targets. The Guardian cites a European Environment Agency report showing that at the end of 2009, 27 countries’ emissions had dropped about 17% in 19 years, “putting them ‘well on track’ to [...]
Surprise! More research debunks global warming alarmism
By Chuck Roger • October 14th, 2010 9:16 pm
The rise in Earth’s average atmospheric temperature during the 20th century was absolutely not “unprecedented.” In fact, our planet’s atmosphere is likely cooler today than for much of the time since the end of the last major ice age more than 12,000 years ago. Here’s part of an abstract from a recent scientific paper. …we [...]
Pushing Junk Science on Children
By Chuck Roger • October 7th, 2010 2:47 am
Originally in American Thinker, October 6, 2010. Humans have angered Mother Nature. Our species must stop multiplying, give up our addiction to huge-screen HDTVs, stop eating so many steer, and travel on twenty-pound electric tricycles forty miles at a time between charging stations. Otherwise, we are doomed. This is a story about the ruling class [...]
Gaia squealing in delight
By Chuck Roger • October 1st, 2010 2:37 am
All-knowing government bureaucrats will tell us what household appliances we will be allowed to use. This is not a bad joke. This is a bad reality. Assistant Energy Secretary Cathy Zoi is overjoyed about her U.S. Department of Energy “mandate” to order Americans to use only certain household appliances. In fact, let’s allow Zoi to [...]
Academic environmentalist arrogance: If we green it, they will buy it
By Chuck Roger • September 16th, 2010 2:58 am
When someone is described as having a “career as an environmental activist,” you know you are dealing with a lefty ideologue. But for our edification, we turn to the source in which the claim appears. ASU Magazine, the official publication of Arizona State University, recently ran a story titled, “Fields of green: sustainability’s intersection with [...]
Warmists in wonderland
By Chuck Roger • September 14th, 2010 2:59 am
Human-caused global warming is responsible for the recent flare-up of pain in my left wrist. If you find that hard to believe, then what about this? Climate change in Latin America—and the accompanying drought, flooding and desertification—is likely to drive increased illegal migration across the Mexico-U.S. border in coming years… And the region’s “Worsening economic [...]
Another global warming alarmist calls for civilization to move backwards
By Chuck Roger • September 10th, 2010 3:01 am
As noted in my 9-7-10 post, Financial Times has become a hangout for advocates of global warming alarmism. In today’s post we discuss the latest installment in FT-hosted lunacy. University of Oxford professor of energy Dieter Helm makes [free registration required] two absurd statements to open his recent FT article. See if you can detect [...]
