Business as Usual at the Paris Climate Conference
The Paris Climate Conference will yield a number of firm commitments that will turn out to be meaningless.
If the Pope Wants to Have a Truly Moral Climate-Change Debate, Here Are a Few Ideas
Kudos to Pope Francis for calling a conference, scheduled for tomorrow, emphasizing the moral dimensions of climate change. It’s about time we took a clear and sober look at an ...
Hot Air on Climate Change in Lima
Every December since 1995, the United Nations has held a meeting of the countries that signed onto its 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change. This year, the 20th “Conference of ...
Our Weird Energy Politics
What is it about the weather that compels our government to ineptly dictate how we produce electricity and consume energy? This a worthwhile question to ask on August 4, the ...
The IPCC Political-Suicide Pill
On Friday, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is going to release its much-anticipated fifth “scientific assessment” of global warming. Like its 2007 predecessor, the document will ...
Global Warming and Energy Insanity
Rush Limbaugh hasn’t made a lot of green friends over the years with his “environmental wacko” tirades, but, given what’s going on these days, perhaps his rhetoric has been too ...
Guilt by Association
My friends on the left make much of the apparent correlation between creationism and skepticism about assured climate disaster. It is the “some–all fallacy” writ large. “Some” climate scientists who ...
The U.N. at Cancun
This year’s installment of the U.N.’s annual holiday party has come and gone from Cancun, with little to show for it except the massive carbon footprint of thousands of attendees ...
Global Warming’s Corrupt Science
Climate science has painted itself into a corner, seriously damaging the public’s faith in the field — as precious a commodity as there is in civil society. Like lab rats ...
The Global-Warming Tax
Climategate, Copenhagen, Snowmageddon in the nation’s capital, the EPA ruling that CO2 endangers us all, and Senate Republicans pushing for a global-warming tax. Has it been a great run-up to ...