Category: Climate & Energy

” When Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman claimed to have stumbled upon a new crystalline chemical structure that seemed to violate the laws of nature, colleagues mocked him, insulted him and exiled him from his research group, reports the Associated Press. Continue reading Nobel Prize winner rejects tyranny of consensus

“Last month, scientists at CERN, the prestigious high-energy physics lab in Switzerland, reported that neutrinos might—repeat, might—travel faster than the speed of light. If serious scientists can question Einstein’s theory of relativity, then there must be room for debate about the workings and complexities of the Earth’s atmosphere,” writes the Manhattan Institute’s Robert Bryce in today’s Wall Street Journal.

Climategate’s Michael Mann plans to rant at next week’s Geological Society of America meeting about skeptics not being part of scholarly debate. But wait a minute, didn’t Mann conspire to bring about that very situation? Continue reading Irony: Michael Mann to rant about skeptics being outside 'scholarly venues'

Are climate alarmists following in the footsteps of 1905 Nobel laureate and chief Nazi physicist Philipp Lenard? Continue reading White-guy-skepticism like 'Jewish physics'?

The Bipartisan Policy Center is convening a roundtable today to discuss geoengineering as a last ditch solution to catastrophic climate change. Oy vey… Continue reading Stoking climate fears through geoengineering talks

“We’re all familiar with the greedy businessman who pushes taxpayer subsidies to enrich himself. Solyndra tells us we might want to start paying more attention to the businessman who’s already rich—but seeks to salve a guilty conscience by putting taxpayers on the hook for his pet causes” — the money line from William McGurn’s column in today’s Wall Street Journal.

Climate alarmist — and government employee — James Hansen made up to $1.2 million last year according to disclosure forms, reports the American Tradition Institute.

The New York Times concludes in this lengthy, front-page and hand-wringing article that to save the forests, fossil fuel use needs to be limited. Although the article is filled with dire forecasts and conclusions from many “scientists,” there’s actually no science presented in the article.

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The global warming-believing state climatologist for Texas says that the 2011 drought could last until 2020. But how does he know? The answer is astonishing. Continue reading Texas needs a new climatologist