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What do you do if you are a global warming alarmist and real-world temperatures do not warm as much as your climate model predicted? Here’s one answer: you claim that your model’s propensity to predict more warming than has actually occurred shouldn’t prejudice your faith in the same model’s future predictions. Thus, anyone ...

I recently came across a trailer for a 2008 film dubbed by Wired magazine as that year’s “scariest movie at the Sundance Film Festival.” Knowing any film taking the title of most alarmist in a festival known for over-the-top environmental alarmism must be a real doozy, I watched the trailer for “Flow: For the Love of Water ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has reaffirmed that bisphenol A, a chemical used in certain plastics and resins, poses no identified risks to human health at current exposure levels. FDA’s decision came in response to a Natural Resources Defense Council petition for the agency to ban BPA in food packaging and containers ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed carbon dioxide restrictions that will effectively ban the construction of coal-fired power plants. The proposed restrictions would block the construction of any new power plant that does not limit its carbon dioxide emissions to 1,000 pounds per megawatt-hour. The proposed restrictions ...

The polar bear population along the western shore of Hudson Bay, Canada is substantially larger than what had been predicted by global warming alarmists, the Canadian government reported after conducting an aerial survey of the region. Government scientists estimate the polar bear population along the western shore of Hudson Bay ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions that would effectively ban the construction of coal-fired power plants. EPA’s proposed restrictions would remove the least expensive source of electricity from the menu of power plant options. EPA is justifying its carbon dioxide restrictions ...

Opposition is growing to Florida House Bill 7117, which would give millions in taxpayers subsidies to Solyndra-style renewable energy companies, impose new obstacles on the construction of power plans utilizing inexpensive fuel sources like coal and natural gas, and authorize local governments to put taxpayers on the hook for ...

Anti-energy crusaders are in a celebratory mood this week as the EPA effectively banned the construction of coal-fired power plants, and thus completed the federal government’s trifecta beat-down on affordable energy. First, new obstacles to energy production resulted in oil production on federal lands dropping 11% in Fiscal Year ...

The question of whether humans are causing a severe global warming problem is on the surface almost entirely one of science. True, perspectives and judgments can vary on what level of climate change and/or negative impacts would constitute a “crisis,” a “severe global warming problem,” or some other threshold justifying bold ...

The Arctic treeline is moving northward more slowly than the 2 kilometers per year predicted by alarmist computer models, according to a newly released study by Cambridge University. “To generalize our results, the tree line is definitely moving north on average but we do not see any evidence for rates as big as 2 kilometers ...

Florida’s Republican-dominated legislature passed legislation this month that will impose new obstacles on coal and natural gas power plants, grease the wheels for expensive wind and solar power plants, create new Solyndra-style subsidies for wind and solar power, and hand over millions of taxpayer dollars to ethanol producers ...

Washington DC’s famous cherry blossoms are arriving a little early this year. If you listen to environmental activist groups and their media allies, this is yet another undeniable sign of catastrophic global warming. But is this really the case? Perhaps we should take a look across the Pacific Ocean and see how the cherry ...

Warmists often fail to understand what defines a global warming “skeptic.” The myth so frequently asserted by global warming alarmists and their media allies is that skeptics dispute that the planet is warming and that human activity has been a contributing factor to the warming. In reality, most skeptics believe the planet ...

Grassroots environmental groups, such as Save Western Ohio, are expressing serious concerns about the negative environmental impacts of wind power. The groups emphasize several worries: • According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, wind turbines in the United States annually kill 440,000 birds, including many protected and ...

Annual snowfall in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains is showing no sign of decline, according to a study by University of Alabama-Huntsville climate scientist John Christy. The study’s results, accepted for publication in the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Hydrometeorology, refute frequent assertions by global warming ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is preparing a decision on whether to ban bisphenol A, a chemical widely used in plastics and the linings of metal food containers. To settle a lawsuit filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council, FDA agreed to issue its decision by March 31. The NRDC filed a petition with the FDA ...

Efforts to facilitate an open and honest discussion of global warming issues were dealt a serious blow as prominent scientist and global warming alarmist Peter Gleick confessed to assuming the identity of a Heartland Institute board member in order to steal the organization’s internal documents and send them to global warming ...

An American Meteorological Society survey of its members shows meteorologists remain skeptical that humans are causing a global warming crisis. The survey was sent to all AMS voting members and was returned by more than a quarter of recipients. According to the survey, 89 percent of AMS meteorologists believe global warming ...

Florida Tea Partiers and grassroots conservatives are expressing frustration at the state’s Republican-dominated legislature for passing legislation that would ramp up taxpayer subsidies to Solyndra-style renewable power projects. Bills Hand Over Subsidies, Preferences If signed by Gov. Rick Scott (R), the legislation will require ...

The Heartland Institute has sent a letter to the board of directors of the Pacific Institute requesting a full and complete investigation of Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick’s actions against The Heartland Institute. The Pacific Institute has said it has retained an independent firm to conduct an investigation of Gleick ...