Science Turns Authoritarian
Thursday, 05 August 2010 08:08
Kenneth P. Green and Hiwa Alaghebandian, The American
In a Wired article published at the end of May, writer Erin Biba bemoans the fact that “science” is losing its credibility with the public. The plunge in the public’s belief in catastrophic climate change is her primary example. Biba wonders whether the loss of credibility might be due to the malfeasance unearthed by the leak of emails...
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Adaptation The Best Climate Change Policy
Monday, 02 August 2010 08:04
Tom Switzer
We all know climate change was a major issue in the 2007 election. So much so that both Labor and the Coalition pledged to implement an emissions trading scheme in order to reduce the nation's carbon footprint. But those days are over: Copenhagen, the GFC, Tony Abbott's rise, climate-gate and glacier-gate have changed the politics of global...
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The Death Of The Global Warming Movement?
Sunday, 01 August 2010 08:53
Shikha Dalmia, Forbes
Future historians will pinpoint Democratic Sen. Harry Reid's energy legislation, released Tuesday, as the moment that the political movement of global warming entered an irreversible death spiral. It is kaput! Finito! Done!
This is not just my read of the situation; it is also that of Paul Krugman, the Nobel...
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The Difference Between ‘True Science’ And ‘Cargo-Cult Science’
Friday, 30 July 2010 08:33
Frank J. Tipler
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts” is how the great Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman defined science in his article “What is Science?” Feynman emphasized this definition by repeating it in a stand-alone sentence in extra large typeface in his article. (Feynman’s essay is available online, but behind a...
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Why 'Amazongate' matters
Thursday, 29 July 2010 14:55
Richard North
In what has become the long-running saga of the unsubstantiated claim by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) about the potential effects of global warming on the Amazon rainforest, the fact that George Monbiot has weighed in so heavily to the "Amazongate" issue is perhaps a measure of its importance.
One cannot help but enjoy...
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A Greener, Cheaper Energy Policy
Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:43
Matthew Sinclair, TPA
Over the last few days, it has been extremely encouraging to see groups across the spectrum of British politics acknowledging the problems with our overly expensive climate change policy. Unfortunately, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) appears to be retreating into overly optimistic delusion and the Government policy is...
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Christopher Booker: Chris Huhne: Has Any Minister In History Seemed More Hopelessly Unfit To Do His Job?
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:03
Christopher Booker, Daily Mail
The penny is fast dropping that by far the most disastrous appointment made by David Cameron to his Coalition Cabinet was that of the ultra-green, Lib Dem millionaire Chris Huhne as our Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
Yesterday, after Mr Huhne issued his first annual statement on Britain's energy future, it was clear that we...
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Philip Stott: Global Warming: the Death of a Grand Narrative
Monday, 26 July 2010 15:24
Philip Stott, GWPF
Grand narratives - those overarching, dominant systems of socio-political thought so beloved of post-modernists - come and go. Some, such as major religions, can persist, through shape-shifting, for millennia; others last for centuries, while most survive for mere decades.
The death of a grand narrative is often protracted and largely...
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Desperate Days For The Warmists
Monday, 26 July 2010 07:52
Christopher Booker, Sunday Telegraph
Ever more risibly desperate become the efforts of the believers in global warming to hold the line for their religion, after the battering it was given last winter by all those scandals surrounding the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
One familiar technique they use is to attribute to global warming almost any unusual weather...
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