NEWS
November 8, 2007
"Survey of IPCC Climate Experts" - "Introduction: Many claim that there is a consensus among scientists that manmade emissions of greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide(CO2), are harming global climate. To test the nature of this consensus, we surveyed the U.S. contributors to, and reviewers of the most recent scientific assessment by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)." (DemandDebate.com)
October 4, 2007
Al
Gore Debates Global Warming - Since former vice president and global warming activist Al Gore has so far
refused to debate global warming skeptics, the debate has been brought to him. The public may now watch Al
Gore make his case head-to-head against expert climatologists in the first episode of the new environmental
education video series, “We Debate, You Decide,” launched by DemandDebate.com. (PR Newswire)
- Read the media release.
- Watch the debate on YouTube.
October 1, 2007
SEC Should Require Companies to Disclose Risk of Global Warming Regulation, Study Says; Companies Risk Earnings While Keeping Shareholders in the Dark, Reports Free Enterprise Education Institute - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should take immediate steps to require publicly-owned corporations to reveal the potential harm caused by global warming regulations on earnings and shareholder value, concluded a study released today by the Free Enterprise Education Institute (FEEI). (PR Newswire)
- Read the media release.
- Read the full report.
DemandDebate.com
Endorses New Global Warming Primer for Students; 'The Sky Isn't Falling': Informs and Provides Needed Balance
in Environmental Education - "Author and Montana State University resource economist Holly Fretwell
has done a magnificent job in presenting the facts on global warming for students in an easy-to-read and
scientifically accurate manner," said Steve Milloy, executive director of DemandDebate.com. "'The
Sky Isn't Falling' should be mandatory reading for every student," added Milloy. (PR Newswire)
September 28, 2007
Students Thrown Climate Life Preserver
- Two new books on global warming for kids are out. One is designed to reduce anxiety among children; the
other is designed to heighten it. So which is better? That depends on how you like your facts — right or
wrong.
September 21, 2007
Green Hypocrisy's Gold Standard - Is
billionaire investor George Soros using environmental pressure groups to block a gold-mining project for his
own financial benefit?
September 17, 2007
Cap-and-Trade Could
Cost Average Family $10,800 in Lost Income, says Economist Arthur Laffer: Proposed Global Warming Policy
Likened To 1970s-Era Energy Crunch - A cap-and-trade scheme for controlling greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs)
would impose significant economic costs on the U.S. economy and is not a sound policy response to current
concerns about global warming, says renown economist Arthur Laffer in a new study released today.
September 6, 2007
Mining
Company Fights Back Against Soros Lies - Gabriel Resources, a mining company based in Toronto, Canada, has
begun to fight back against the lies and war of misinformation being waged against its proposed Romanian gold
mine by leftwing billionaire George Soros. As I have written about several times on my own blog, BillHobbs.com,
the poverty-stricken place village of Rosia Montana, Romania, is seeing its best-ever chance at economic
progress and a better life for its people blocked by environmental groups and NGOs, and by Soros, a wealthy
man who doesn't lack for things like indoor plumbing and electricity the way many of the people do in Rosia.
The New York Times, PBS and other media outlets have in recent weeks presented a false picture of the Rosia
Montana project, describing it as a small village trying to fend off destruction by a big Canadian mining
company. The real picture is much different - the truth is, the people of the village largely support the
proposed mine, and want the benefits it will bring, and the opposition is largely non-local and heavily funded
by Soros. (News Busters)
August 30, 2007
Keeping
Romania impoverished - For decades, Nazi and Communist regimes ruled Romania, kept her people
impoverished and exploited her resources – tearing vast mineral wealth from her mountains, with little
regard for worker safety, people’s health or the environment. When the Soviet Empire collapsed, Romania
eagerly embraced a more hopeful future and embarked on a course to join the European Union.
Life has improved for many, especially in cities like Bucharest. But Romania remains one of the EU’s poorest
nations, and valleys that once echoed with the shouts of workers and roar of heavy equipment are now silent.
Over 300,000 miners are jobless. Their villages have descended into squalor, misery and despondency that have
no historic parallel. (Paul Driessen, Townhall)
August 23, 2007
Romanian
Villager Sends PBS Message in Bottle to Debunk Anti-mining Documentary
On the heels of last night's PBS broadcast of the biased "documentary" titled "Gold
Futures," which portrays the Romanian village of Rosia Montana as a pristine rural village threatened by
a behemoth gold mine, village resident and blogger Gheorge Lucian
is preparing to send PBS a message in a bottle - literally.
Lucian, as seen on this YouTube video, has collected
samples of the highly polluted river water that flows through Rosia Montana from the now-closed former
communisty-run state-owned gold mine, an environmental disaster zone that would be cleaned as part of the
development of a new, modern, state-of-the-art gold mine in Rosia Montana.
He intends to send a bottle of the water - it's orange - to PBS.
According to the Environmental Impact
Assessment of the proposed gold mine, the river water currently - as a result of the old, environmentally
dangerous mine - contains 64 times the legal limit for iron, 110 times the legal limit for zinc, 3.5 times the
legal limit for arsenic, and gets its reddish orange color from cadmium.
Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources - the company behind the mining project that the environmentalists
are trying to halt - would clean up river and old mine as part of its project.
Far from the pristine village as portrayed by PBS, Rosia Montana is an environmental disaster now - that's the
message of Gheorge's bottles of river water. (NewsBusters)
After you've read about it. Get the Mine Your Own Business DVD at the DemandDebate.com Store
August 21, 2007
An impoverished town strikes gold. George Soros and foreign environmentalists say, leave it in the
ground.
The recent tragedy in Utah has brightened the spotlight on mining, already under assault by environmental and
anti-globalization activists world-wide. These activists have produced several documentaries, and the
anti-mining campaign has attracted the attention of billionaire George Soros and actress Vanessa Redgrave--and
enough charges of greed or hypocrisy to fill a mine shaft.
Tonight, PBS will air "Gold Futures," a film by Hungary's Tibor Kocsis. The film focuses on
residents in Romania's Rosia Montana, a rural Transylvanian town, who are divided over the benefits of a
proposed gold mine. It also features Gabriel Resources, the Canadian mining company trying to convince them to
relocate so it can dig for a huge gold deposit estimated at 14.6 million ounces, worth almost $10 billion. PBS
describes the film as a "David-and-Goliath story." (John Fund, Opinion Journal)
August 17, 2007
Environmental Activists Are Enemies of the Poor
"People here have no jobs," Mark Fenn admitted, after taking documentary producers on a tour of
his $35,000 catamaran and the site of his new coastal home. "But if you could count how many times they
smile in a day, if you could measure stress"--and compare that to "well-off people" in London
or New York--"then tell me, who is rich and who is poor?"
Fenn is coordinator of the World Wildlife Fund's campaign against a proposed mining project near Fort Dauphin,
Madagascar. The locals strongly support the project and want the jobs, improved port, sustained development,
and improved living standards and environmental quality this state-of-the-art operation will bring. No wonder.
People there live in abject poverty, along dirt roads, in shacks with dirt floors, barely able to afford food
on their $1,000-a-year average income. There is little electricity and no indoor plumbing. The area's
rainforest has been destroyed for firewood and slash-and-burn agriculture. People barely eke out a living.
(Roy Innis, Environment News)
August 15, 2007
It was never supposed to be a trick question. Which year is the hottest on record? Depending where one
looks, there are three different answers: 2006, 1998 or 1934. Until last week, the answer was supposed to be
2006, but it might have been 1998. Now, citing corrections of faulty data, NASA says it was actually 1934. The
National Climatic Data Center disagrees; it still says 1998.
The differences are a matter of tenths of a degree Celsius, which might seem to diminish the significance of
the corrections. Except that unusually warm years in the 1920s, 1930s and 1950s are themselves only a few
tenths of a degree Celsius away from the purportedly dangerous hot temperatures of the present. Only one thing
is certain: The political debate over global warming has rushed far ahead of the science. (Washington Times)
Twisted Science: Bullies of the Beltway
The complexities of global warming, (renamed as climate change) should be the domain of scientific
discussions. Such discussions should be held within the constraints of science, the scientific methods, the
careful collection, management, and analyses of the climate data.
There should include careful resolutions and explanations of conflicting data, replication, and passing the
essential demands of explaining the observations of the climate data.
I have never been in discussions of science and engineering issues where these values weren’t highly
respected and determinant. Even competing designs, processes, and theories were lightly defended since the
common understanding was that the data would determine which was superior. In contrast, falsely representing
the data supporting a particular theory or design, would have been severely dealt with and career limiting.
(Michael R. Fox, Hawaii Reporter)
August 13, 2007
Newsweek Burns Truth in Global Warming Story
The extremists committed to the man-made global warming theory―that humans are causing the world to
get hotter and that we have to drastically raise taxes and/or ration energy in response―are on the run.
How else does one explain the sensational Newsweek cover story with the provocative headline, "Global
Warming is a Hoax,*" over a photo of a boiling sun?
Newsweek Burns Truth in Global Warming Story
Newsweek, a Washington Post property, claims to be telling us “The Truth About Denial,” and to make sure
everyone gets the point, it uses some form of the word “denial” 20 times, including “denial machine”
14 times.
The article, which is the worst kind of advocacy journalism, is a shoddy attempt to suggest that those
skeptical of the theory are like holocaust deniers.
The asterisk in the Newsweek headline leads to a smaller note connecting the “hoax” charge to “well-funded
naysayers who still reject the overwhelming evidence of climate change.” Newsweek tells its readers that its
cover story is about “the denial machine” ―those against the theory. (Roger Aronoff, National
Ledger)
Bad News for Science at Newsweek Magazine, says SPPI"
“The Third International Mathematics and Science Study Results reveal that US public school children are remarkably sub par in math and science capabilities. Apparently things are not much brighter for the adults at Newsweek Magazine,” reports Robert Ferguson, President of the Science and Public Policy Institute (www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org). A new SPPI white paper (http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/sppi_originals/bad_news_for_science_in_newsweek.html) examines what little science was attempted in the current Newsweek cover story predicting ‘global warming’ catastrophe and attacking anyone disagreeing with the “its-your-fault-the-end-is-near” fundamentalism. (SPPI)
Aug. 20-27, 2007 issue - We in the news business often enlist in moral crusades. Global warming is among the latest. Unfortunately, self-righteous indignation can undermine good journalism. Last week's NEWSWEEK cover story on global warming is a sobering reminder. It's an object lesson of how viewing the world as "good guys vs. bad guys" can lead to a vast oversimplification of a messy story. Global warming has clearly occurred; the hard question is what to do about it. (Robert J. Samuelson, Newsweek)
August 10, 2007
Save the Environment—from school dunce Al Gore
If Al Gore were in Professor Tim Ball’s classroom, he wouldn’t be bringing his Report Card home. Gore’s Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth will return to class when youngsters return to school next month. “They are showing his film in schools when I would give it an “F” even as a Grade X assignment,” says climatologist Ball. (Judi McLeod, CFP)
There is probably nothing I have read lately about the global warming subject that is as upsetting to me as the cover story in the August 13 issue of Newsweek titled Truth About Denial. The article makes no pretense about being objective. It is nothing more than an opinion piece and for a supposedly major news media source not to label it as such is disgraceful to an already diminished profession. ( Craig James, WOOD TV)
Al Gore Slings Bogus Borrowed Charges
Mr. Gore went to Singapore and peddled a phony story, one he appears to have borrowed without attribution. Echoing nearly verbatim Newsweek's recent Hillaryesque hokum that there exists a vast right-wing corporate Global Warming conspiracy, the Delphic Goracle even went so far as to repeat the most brazen among the story's falsehoods - that "deniers" had offered bribe money to potential authors of articles specifically trashing a then-pending IPCC report. (Marc Sheppard, American Thinker)
August 9, 2007
Scholastic Accused of Indoctrinating Kids on
Global Warming
Los Angeles, CA (Aug. 8, 2007) – Scholastic, the venerable children’s publisher and the U.S. company
behind Harry Potter, has published books for school children for generations. But the publishing company’s
forthcoming book on global warming may have crossed the line from information into manipulation.
That’s the warning being issued by Eric M. Jackson, president of World Ahead Media, following the
publication of an interview with Scholastic author Laurie David in Publishers Weekly last week. David, a
Hollywood activist who produced Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” is the co-author of a book
entitled “The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming” that Scholastic is publishing next month.
“In her jaw-dropping interview, Laurie David makes it clear that her book has been written specifically to
indoctrinate children,” asserts Jackson. Last week Publishers Weekly quoted David as saying, "Kids also
are the number one influence on their parents, so if you want to reach the parents, go to the kids.” (WebWire)
Global warming has become a big-ticket item in the eyes of its supporters. At stake are research funds,
jobs and the ability to control lives all over the globe. Most climatologists agree that over the last
century, the Earth's average temperature has risen about one degree Celsius.
The controversy centers around the source of the temperature change -- man-made or natural causes. Global
warming alarmists hold the view that it's man-made emissions of CO2 that are driving climate change; they seek
to suppress dissent suggesting other causes. (Walter Williams, Tribune-Review)
Sci Am Worried Newsweek’s ‘Global Warming Is A Hoax*’ Headline is Misleading
I received an e-mail message from a global warming skeptic yesterday suggesting that Newsweek's disgraceful
article about climate change "deniers" could backfire given the facetious headline "Global
Warming Is A Hoax*" on the cover.
The thinking was that since far more people would see the magazine at the newsstands than would actually buy
it and read the article, a much larger number of people would think Newsweek was indeed claiming global
warming was a hoax, and would never understand the sarcasm.
It seems that one of the editors of Scientific American agrees, and posted his concerns at that magazine's
editors' blog Wednesday with a headline "Newsweek Denies the Existence of Global Warming" (News
Busters)
Are Gore and Newsweek’s Climate Change ‘Deniers’ Accusations Coordinated?
As NewsBusters reported Sunday, Newsweek's current issue featured a cover story blasting anthropogenic
global warming skeptics as "deniers," and pointing fingers at companies like ExxonMobil as
participating in a coordinated misinformation campaign akin to the tobacco industry misleading citizens about
the dangers of cigarette smoking.
Shortly after this new issue hit the stands, Al Gore told a forum in Singapore, "the deniers offered a
bounty of $10,000 for each article disputing the consensus that people could crank out and get published
somewhere."
This raises an interesting question: Is this a coordinated attack designed to incite anger in citizens that
polls show are not as upset about this issue as the left and their media minions? (Noel Sheppard, News
Busters)
August 8, 2007
Oh Albert... Gore: Polluters manipulate climate info
SINGAPORE — Research aimed at disputing the scientific consensus on global warming is part of a huge
public misinformation campaign funded by some of the world's largest carbon polluters, former Vice President
Al Gore said Tuesday.
"There has been an organized campaign, financed to the tune of about $10 million a year from some of the
largest carbon polluters, to create the impression that there is disagreement in the scientific
community," Gore said at a forum in Singapore. "In actuality, there is very little
disagreement."
Gore likened the campaign to the millions of dollars spent by U.S. tobacco companies years ago on creating the
appearance of scientific debate on smoking's harmful effects." (Gillian Wong, Associated Press)
... it's beginning to look like you never met any nonsense you wouldn't embrace.
Newsweek equates global warming skeptics with Holocaust deniers and accuses reputable scientists of being paid to create confusion in the face of consensus. Galileo is once again on trial. (IBD)
August 7, 2007
More on Newsweek's attempted suppression of debate: Newsweek mimics tobacco industry tactics - WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Aug. 6 -- "Newsweek's latest cover story predicting 'global warming' catastrophe is no more scientific and no less incredible than its story 30 years ago predicting 'global cooling'," said Robert Ferguson, President of the influential Science and Public Policy Institute (www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org). (E-Wire)
Newsweek
Clueless: How the Tail Wagged the Dog - Newsweek's cover story, by Sharon Begley and three
colleagues, purports to be an expose of the global-warming "denial machine" and how it keeps America
Kyoto-free.
The Clinton Administration negotiated the Kyoto Protocol but never submitted it to the Senate for a debate and
vote on ratification. Why not? Newsweek says "denial" groups like the Competitive Enterprise
Institute were too influential. Begley and company are correct to this extent. Groups like CEI made it
impossible for policy makers to ignore Kyoto’s dreadful cost-benefit ratio. (Marlo Lewis, Planet Gore)
More on Newsweek Cover Story - Marlo and Henry have commented well on the Newsweek cover story, and especially the lead item referring to the crazy story out a few months ago involving me and AEI in supposedly trying to "bribe" scientists to undermine the IPCC. This story had been peddled by Greenpeace to American journalists for months (including the NY Times and major TV network news, who all passed on it when they saw from the full facts how ridiculous it was), which is why Greenpeace ultimately had to peddle the story through British tabloids. Ken Green and I wrote our side of the story for that Other Conservative Magazine, if anyone wants the full details. By the way, the frothiest version of the "bribe" story appeared in The (London) Independent; the story was fully retracted—not corrected—but retracted, a week later. (Steven Hayward, Planet Gore)
August 6, 2007
For the latest in propaganda: Blame the media for climate woes: analysis
OTTAWA -- Mainstream U.S. media are to blame for stalled international efforts to reach an agreement to
fight climate change, according to a new analysis released by a media watchdog group.
The report, in the latest edition of a magazine published by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, said there
are multiple examples of major American media organizations watering down recent warnings from peer-reviewed
scientific literature about the consequences of global warming and the human-produced pollution that is
causing it. (Mike De Souza, CanWest News Service)
The actual situation: Global Warming Propaganda Factory
I have often wondered how the media are in such lock step on Global Warming. Well, I wonder no more. Recently, I came across a website for the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ). http://www.sej.org/ This website is veritable tool box for any budding reporter assigned to the global warming beat. If you're an editor at the Palookaville Post, all you have to do is send your cub reporters to this site and they'll have everything they need to write an article that fits the template and action line perfectly. (Christopher J. Alleva, American Thinker)
and again: Lefties cloud warming
MoveOn.org and other leftist groups are making misleading statements about the Fox News Channel making misleading statements. (Dimitri Vassilaros, Tribune-Review)
More propaganda: The Truth About Denial
Aug. 13, 2007 issue - Sen. Barbara Boxer had been chair of the Senate's Environment Committee for less than a month when the verdict landed last February. "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal," concluded a report by 600 scientists from governments, academia, green groups and businesses in 40 countries. Worse, there was now at least a 90 percent likelihood that the release of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels is causing longer droughts, more flood-causing downpours and worse heat waves, way up from earlier studies. Those who doubt the reality of human-caused climate change have spent decades disputing that. But Boxer figured that with "the overwhelming science out there, the deniers' days were numbered." As she left a meeting with the head of the international climate panel, however, a staffer had some news for her. A conservative think tank long funded by ExxonMobil, she told Boxer, had offered scientists $10,000 to write articles undercutting the new report and the computer-based climate models it is based on. "I realized," says Boxer, "there was a movement behind this that just wasn't giving up. (Sharon Begley, Newsweek)
and the real world truth of the matter: Newsweek Magazine's Climate Editorial Screed Violates Basic Standards of Journalism
Newsweek Magazine’s cover story of August 6, 2007 entitled, “The Truth About Denial” contains very
little that could actually be considered balanced, objective or fair by journalistic standards.
The one-sided editorial, masquerading as a “news article,” was written by Sharon Begley with Eve Conant,
Sam Stein and Eleanor Clift and Matthew Philips and purports to examine the “well-coordinated, well-funded
campaign by contrarian scientists, free-market think tanks and industry has created a paralyzing fog of doubt
around climate change.”
The only problem is -- Newsweek knew better. Reporter Eve Conant, who interviewed Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.),
the Ranking Member of the Environment & Public Works Committee, was given all the latest data proving
conclusively that it is the proponents of man-made global warming fears that enjoy a monumental funding
advantage over the skeptics. (A whopping $50 BILLION to a paltry $19 MILLION for skeptics – Yes, that is
BILLION to MILLION - see complete item ) (Environment and Public Works Blog)
August 1, 2007
Tougher times for Christmas Island?
A decision from an Australian court would protect the Indian Ocean island's wildlife, but could ruin its economy. (The Christian Science Monitor)
July 30, 2007
The Herding Aspect of Global Warming
Now back to my main point: The fact remains that there is powerful evidence of herding at the social level
on the global warming issue. Commentary on the subject is even selling theater tickets. And like all past
social trends that were ending, there is a rush to extrapolate. The temperature data from which modelers at
NASA derive their extrapolation are scant, the projection is extreme and their tone is strident. When any
writers, including scientists, extrapolate 29 years’ worth of temperature data to predict an imminent
apocalypse of Biblical proportions in an environment of waxing social focus, rising panic and calls for
government obstruction, one must acknowledge the likelihood of social-psychological forces behind such a
report and investigate whether the data support the prediction.
It’s fine to describe chemistry. It’s fine to offer a theory of atmospheric and temperature change. But
there seems to be a degree of statistical selectivity behind this specific prediction from NASA.
Global warming advocates told me that doubting man-made global warming was akin to denying evolution, but the
global warming movement has not a little taste of old-time religion in its accompanying admonition of
humanity: Man is evil; he is destroying the earth; he is “fouling his own nest,” as one scientist on the
web says. Scientists are usually good at their fields but not necessarily at recognizing their own political,
moral and economic biases. (Excerpted from the July 2007 issue of The Elliott Wave Theorist)
An
inconvenient opponent: A new British film comes out swinging against Al Gore's climate-change blockbuster
It's a movie being billed as the "definitive response to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth."
But from the moment it hit the airwaves on a British television station on March 8, The Great Global Warming
Swindle has generated praise and outrage because of its theory that scientists, politicians and the media have
conspired to scare people into believing that humans are causing climate change.
The new film takes direct aim at the Oscar-winning production that featured Mr. Gore's famous slide-show
presentation on global warming and the consequences of rising greenhouse-gas emissions from human activity.
Global-warming skeptics have turned the movie into a new rallying cry against politicians, climate-change
experts and environmentalists.
But the new movie's content and theories have exposed its producer, British filmmaker Martin Durkin, to the
wrath of thousands of critics who have been publicly dissecting his work in a series of hostile interviews,
aggressive letters, detailed complaints, legal threats and live television broadcasts.
"Obviously, most journalists are quite keen on global warming theory, and they're just not friendly to
the film, or the argument or me," Mr. Durkin said in an interview. "So they're just waiting for me
to take my hands away from my crotch so that they can give me another kick in it." | Highlights
of controversial theories advanced in both films (Mike De Souza, The Ottawa Citizen)
July 27, 2007
EPA
Chief Vows to Probe E-mail Threatening to ‘Destroy’ Career of Climate Skeptic
During today’s hearing, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works
Committee, confronted Stephen Johnson, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with a
threatening e-mail from a group of which EPA is currently a member. The e-mail threatens to “destroy” the
career of a climate skeptic. Michael T. Eckhart, president of the environmental group the American Council on
Renewable Energy (ACORE), wrote in an email on July 13, 2007 to Marlo Lewis, senior fellow at the Competitive
Enterprise Institute (CEI):
“It is my intention to destroy your career as a liar. If you produce one more editorial against climate
change, I will launch a campaign against your professional integrity. I will call you a liar and charlatan to
the Harvard community of which you and I are members. I will call you out as a man who has been bought by
Corporate America. Go ahead, guy. Take me on."
In a July 16, Washington
Times article, Eckhart confirmed that he did indeed write the email.
July 23, 2007
Freezin'
Matilda
Climate Change: Hysterics greet the Australian broadcast of "The Great Global Warming Swindle" as
the land down under endures its coldest June since 1950. According to the greenies, global warming caused
that, too. (IBD)
July 13, 2007
DemandDebate on CNBC! - DemandDebate T-shirts were spotlighted on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning. Click here for the video clip. The transcript is below:1.1m tune in for warming swindle doco - A CONTROVERSIAL documentary about global warming was a big winner for ABC television last night, with an audience of more than one million viewers... more »Joe Kernen: [Al Gore wants to]... create a series of TV and Internet ads to raise the awareness of the issue of climate change. He cited as an example one effective spot, it's a 45-second ad known as 'black balloons' that illustrates that even things that you people do daily, like brewing coffee or even just watching television, you are contributing to global warming.
Becky Quick: What?
Joe: Yes, and the spot culminates with a thick cloud of black balloons representing carbon emissions.
Becky: Drinking coffee?
Joe: Watching TV, too. So he's really trying to hurt our, you know, I mean, I think we're on TV right now. The prize is a car, but one guy says, he does have one criticism. It's unfortunate that the prize in the end is an automobile, even though it's a hybrid. With all this in mind, here's an ad, someone sent me this. And with no editorial comment, I will show you this T-shirt which I thought was interesting. [It reads] "I'm more worried about the intellectual climate" than climate change.
Becky: You're going to show that with no editorial comment? Yeah, right.
Joe: No editorial comment. It's from Tom Borelli. He's actually a PhD scientist, runs a mutual fund who is using his standing -- he appeared before [Sen.] Barbara Boxer, she called him hostile -- but is using his shareholder standing to demand debate in the boardroom by asking CEOs to justify all their lobbying for global warming. It's the biggest threat to our liberty right now, and I'm saying all this without any editorial comment. Is that okay?
Becky: Yeah, you okay? So you just want to hear from people, see what they think.
Joe: The other side of the shirt says, what does that say? "Demand Debate."
Becky: Demanddebate.com. If you want to write us about this, you can write us at Squawk@cnbc.com, all right...
July 11, 2007
Solar Deniers Attempt to Eclipse Global Warming Documentary - On the very day before the British documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle is to hit Aussie TV screens, the Royal Society has published the work of 2 scientists who claim to have disproved its core position - that the actions of the sun, not humans, cause global warming. And, unlike the countless studies which support solar forcing theories, this one you most definitely WILL be hearing about from the mainstream media. more »July 9, 2007
DemandDebate debuts at Live Earth! - DemandDebate debuted at Live Earth (New Jersey) with aerial banners that read "DON'T BELIEVE AL GORE DEMANDDEBATE.COM" and "DON'T TRUST GORE DEMANDDEBATE.COM." T-shirts and beach balls were distributed to the crowd bearing the DemandDebate message, "I'm more worried about the intellectual climate." The beach balls were ubiquitous on TV, and found their way on stage.According to one media report, Live Earth performer John Mayer spent most of his post-performance press conference lamenting DemandDebate.
DemandDebate.com had more than 12,000 page hits during the Live Earth weekend. Pro-Live Earth bloggers -- including at The Nation -- were livid about DemandDebate. And you should have seen the (mostly unprintable) hate mail...
July 3, 2007
Public doubts on global warming - A new Ipsos Mori poll will make alarming reading for environmental campaigners, and anyone else concerned about climate change.Despite the overwhelming consensus among scientists over global warming, the poll found that 56% of people still think there is scientific doubt about the theory and that the problem is being exaggerated...
For others the poll is likely to rekindle the debate about Channel 4's wisdom in broadcasting the controversial documentary the Great Global Warming Swindle. more »
May 31, 2007
Earth-Friendly Greens Camouflaging the Poor's Plight - Many people are aware that the world’s poor desperately need economic development. Few realize, however, that a major obstacle to overcoming global poverty is the anti-development and anti-human environmental movement that camouflages itself under ubiquitous “Earth-friendly” shades of green.This lack of awareness is no accident. It's come about through a “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” syndrome, where “evil” refers to the many ills of the modern environmental movement.
The syndrome is borne out by recent events related to the eye-opening documentary, "Mine Your Own Business: The Dark Side of Environmentalism," a film about environmentalist efforts to stop economic development in poverty-stricken regions around the world... more »
May 10, 2007
Climate-Controlled Classroom - Should schools teach the global warming controversy by showing students only Al Gore’s alarmist movie? Roger Williams University just learned the answer to that question the hard way... more »May 9, 2007
RI Students Must Watch 'Inconvenient Truth' to Graduate - To receive a degree from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, students are being forced to watch "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary on global warming produced by former Vice President Al Gore... more »Al Gore's willing accomplices in the classroom - Music icon Sheryl Crow just wrapped up her "Stop Global Warming College Tour." And while no Rhode Island school hosted her biodiesel bus, the pop singer's persistence on propagandizing young and malleable minds with greenhouse hype sure did resonate with the leftist faculty at Roger Williams University (RWU).
The week before Earth Day, professors teaching CORE 101: Science, Technology and Society broke from a normal day of classes to watch Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. The eco-marching orders were handed down by the assistant dean of the science department, Jeffrey A. Hughes... more »
May 7, 2007
RI Students Must Watch 'Inconvenient Truth' to Graduate - To receive a degree from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, students are being forced to watch "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary on global warming produced by former Vice President Al Gore... more »May 4, 2007
Law challenge to Gore school film - The government faces a legal challenge for sending every secondary school in England a copy of Al Gore's climate change film An Inconvenient Truth.The Department for Education and Skills confirmed on Thursday it had sent out a resource pack for science, geography and citizenship lessons.
But a father from Kent, Stuart Dimmock, has lodged papers at London's High Court seeking judicial review... more »
