Norman Myers' Sinking Ark

"Alarmist projections fall apart as they fail to materialize. Junk theories tend eventually to be junked."

Norman Myers' sinking ark

The True Cost of 'Climate Change'

"Heavy industry in Europe faces a crippling bill for global warming, says Christopher Booker."

Industry begins to count the true cost of 'climate change' - Telegraph

Silent Killer

"One German organic farm has killed twice as many people as the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Gulf Oil spill combined."

The silence of the media and activists is deafening | The Rational Optimist…

Is Environmentalism Dead?

"Environmentalism might be dead. At least that’s a possibility Steven Hayward is exploring."

Friday Interview: Is Environmentalism Dead?

More People, Please

"Go out and campaign against urban sprawl, Hummers, coal power plants, and whaling -- but leave people alone."

More People, Please | Foreign Policy

It's The End of the World As We Know It

"The green prophets want to run our lives; they'll start with light bulbs and toilets, but it won't end there."

Power Line - It's The End of the World As We Know It

Better to Be Potent Than Not

"Is humanity's ascent to global potency is a bad thing? No, especially if the alternative is returning to relative impotence."

Better to Be Potent Than Not - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

A Long Way from Reaching Our Peak

"The most pressing of our problems are not climatological or ecological, certainly not geological, but political and we will find no answers to these by dreaming wet dreams of a multi-billion genocide so the blessed residuum can potter about building composting toilets, permanently at danger of seasonal starvation, death by tooth decay, and high childbirth mortality in a cod Iron Age village (as half the Greens do), or of instituting a globally-monitored, strictly-rationed, top-down, totalitarian tyranny (what the other half get off on)."

A Long Way from Reaching Our Peak » The Cobden Centre

Climate Science Kit

Via Bishop Hill.

CO2 and Tornadoes

"Well, you now have a simple algorithm for sorting flakes and politicized hacks from honest scientists — anyone who is going around this week saying that the tornadoes in Alabama this week were due to manmade CO2 sit firmly in the former category."


Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » CO2 and Tornadoes

Keeping the Poor in the Dark

"Electricity is an absolute minimum precondition for entry into the modern world. If half the energy devoted to stopping climate change was applied to providing energy to the poor, the world would be a much better place indeed."

Keeping the poor in the dark | Rob Lyons | spiked:

Saving the Planet or Killing Jobs?

"New CARB rules are putting me out of business"

reason.tv - Videos > The Green Regulation Machine: Saving the Planet or Killing Jobs?

The Incredible Washing Machine

'Earth Hour' Won't Change the World

"There is a certain irony in renting brightly lit advertising space to exhort us to save electricity for one hour — but this is apparently lost on the organizers."

'Earth Hour' won't change the world - USATODAY.com:

All Aboard the Climate Gravy Train

"Just how well rewarded are climate scientists? As it turns out, by some measures they are paid as well as corporate CEOs."

All Aboard the Climate Gravy Train | Competitive Enterprise Institute

Overplaying the Human Contribution to Recent Weather Extremes

"A string of soon-to-be-published papers in the scientific literature finds that despite all hue and cry about global warming and recent extreme weather events, natural climate variability is to blame."

The Current Wisdom: Overplaying the Human Contribution to Recent Weather Extremes | Cato @ Liberty

How We Engineered the Food Crisis

"Thanks to dysfunctional regulation of genetic engineering and misguided biofuels policy, the world's poorest are going hungry"

How we engineered the food crisis | Henry Miller | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk:

Is Environmentalism Really Working?

"Biofuels have led to the clear-cutting of rainforests, plastics are being burned rather than recycled and new generation lightbulbs have led to a resurgence of mercury production."

Germany's Eco-Trap: Is Environmentalism Really Working? - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Dyson on Heresy, Climate Change, and Science

"Dyson argues for the importance of what he calls heresy--challenging the scientific dogmas of the day. Dyson argues that our knowledge of climate science is incomplete and that too many scientists treat it as if it were totally understood."

EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty

Study Says Green Sector Costs More Jobs Than It Creates

"It said 3.7 jobs were lost for every one created in the UK as a whole and that political leaders needed to engage in 'honest debate' about the issue."

BBC News - Study says green sector costs more jobs than it creates