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Too Many Americans Are OK With Punishing Climate Skeptics
Let's not sugar coat a new survey's findings.
NAS Releases Explosive New Report on Divestment Movement
Today the National Association of Scholars (NAS) released a new report on the fossil fuel divestment movement. *[Inside Divestment: The Illiberal Movement to Turn a Generation Against Fossil Fuels](http://www.nas.org/projects/divestment_report)* is a comprehensive report that discusses not only the outcomes of the movement, but its origins, motives and methods.
Some Questions for Bill Nye Six Years After Our 'O’Reilly Factor' Debate
This article caught my eye, since, during the last El Niño, I was on "The O'Reilly Factor" debating Bill Nye (Feb. 2010): "Bill Nye demolishes climate deniers: "The single most important thing we can do now is talk about climate change." ... At the end of our debate, I challenged Bill to a grand experiment, something a man of science like him should love. I put forth an idea on where the temperature would go by 2030. I opined it would return to the level, as measured by the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), it was in the late 1970s when we began recording real-time temperatures.
New York Attorney General Tries to Criminalize Scientific Dissent on Climate Change
Everyone reading this should do the attorney general of New York, Eric T. Schneiderman, a big favor: buy a copy of the U.S. Constitution, highlight the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights with a bright yellow or orange Sharpie, and mail him a copy. Schneiderman obviously needs a remedial lesson in the fact that the government is banned from censoring or restricting speech, and certainly has no business "investigating" Americans, including corporations, for their views on — of all things — a contentious scientific theory.
If the Planet's Warming, Why Is McCarthy Going After AC?
Liberal logic — it's why we can't have nice things.
Hitler Youth and Orwell's Child Spies: It's Happening Again ... Sort Of
"Youths across US are suing states, federal government to force action against climate change," proclaims a headline from U.S. News and World Report. The author continues, "dozens of young people want a say in the planet's future, so minors nationwide have been suing states and the federal government in recent years to push action on climate change."
Bad News: Global Warming Is Ruining Sex Lives
Is it hot in here? Oh, that's just the heat from all those fossil fuels.
What's NOAA Hiding? Agency Leaves Congress in the Dark
Internal communications remain under wraps.
Climate Policy: Just Say No!
Abundant, affordable, reliable energy, combined with economic freedom and limited, responsive government according to the rule of law, are indispensable to overcoming poverty. No society has risen out of poverty or can long stay out of it without both. That is why I oppose policies to prevent or reduce global warming allegedly caused by human emissions of carbon dioxide.
Lessons From Patricia
Failing to bring about the kind of devastation a 200 MPH hurricane does because (a) it did not have 200 MPH winds when it reached the coast and (b) it hit a sparsely populated area, Hurricane Patricia immediately became an example of how hurricanes have become a ping-pong ball between two different climate agendas, as I wrote about a few days ago.
A Heated Debate Over Climate Change Continues
Debate. It's the hallmark of an open society. We may hold different points of view on a certain topic, but we can express those views freely, without fear of repercussions. Unless, that is, you dare to question the idea of man-made global warming. That, apparently, puts you beyond the pale. You can insist the 1969 Apollo moon landing was staged, or that 9/11 was an "inside job," and it's "live and let live" time. But disagree with the view that climate change is not only occurring but is caused by human activity, and you invite a stay in a rubber room.
Hurricanes Become a Ping-Pong Ball in the Climate Debate
It's been an amazingly quiet period, but that's likely to change.