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James M. Taylor - Sep 08, 2010
Los Angeles is naming an environmental high school high school after Al Gore. Fittingly, the high school is being built on contaminated soil. The Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences, named after Gore and Rachel Carson, is due to open on September 13. Rachel Carson’s 1962 book Silent Spring defined emotional exaggeration in the name of science before passing the torch to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Carson’s book led to the needless banning of the phenomenally successful insecticide DDT. DDT had virtually eradicated malaria in most of the world, but malaria has come back with a vengeance and killed untold millions of people since Silent Spring induced a near global ban of the insecticide. Carson’s Silent Spring claims, much like Gore’s An Inconvenient ... (read more) |
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Los Angeles is naming an environmental high school high school after Al Gore. Fittingly, the high school is being built on contaminated soil.The Carson-Gore ... (read more)
September 06, 2010
Coal-fired power plants are emitting substantially fewer smog-forming particles than was the case just two years ago, according to the U.S. Environmental ... (read more)
September 06, 2010
Montana-Dakota Utilities (MDU) has filed a request to increase the price of power the utility charges its customers in Eastern Montana. MDU President Dave ... (read more)
James M. Taylor - September 05, 2010
Environmental extremist took an ugly turn Aug. 1 when activist James Lee, armed with two guns and several bombs stormed the Discovery Channel headquarters ... (read more)
James M. Taylor - September 05, 2010
Media stories flooded the airwaves and the Internet in mid-August with claims of global warming threatening the world’s food supply. The media reported ... (read more)
Cheryl K. Chumley - September 05, 2010
Jon Tester and Max Baucus, Democratic Senators representing Montana, are fighting an August 5 federal court decision that restored gray wolves to the U.S. ... (read more)
Jay Lehr - September 05, 2010
Pebble bed nuclear reactors are still in the development phase and have yet to be placed into operation in any nation, but these reactors promise to eliminate ... (read more)
Jay Lehr - September 04, 2010
Review of Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future, by Robert Bryce (Public Affairs, 2010), 416 pages, ISBN-13: ... (read more)
Thomas Cheplick - September 04, 2010
The State of California is accusing two persons associated with the Tung Tai electronics and metal recycling company of submitting fraudulent reimbursement ... (read more)
James M. Taylor - September 04, 2010
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has announced the Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors, and Review Editors for its ... (read more)
Bonner R. Cohen - September 04, 2010
Michigan, a state whose economy was driven for more than a century by its once-mighty automobile industry, now has chance to reinvent itself and become ... (read more)
Bonner R. Cohen - September 04, 2010
A scheme to mandate a reduction of New Mexico’s greenhouse-gas emissions is being debated in a Santa Fe hearing room, with the state’s economic ... (read more)
Krystle Russin - September 04, 2010
The federal government is eliminating open competition for certain species of West Coast fish and will instead allocate shares individually to fish harvesters, ... (read more)
Cheryl K. Chumley - September 04, 2010
With bedbug infestations making a comeback in Ohio and across the United States, Ohio Department of Agriculture officials are petitioning the U.S. Environmental ... (read more)
James M. Taylor - September 04, 2010
The unusually cold temperatures and string of heavy blizzards along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard last winter had nothing to do with global warming, scientists ... (read more)
James M. Taylor - September 03, 2010
Hurricane activity since 2008 has been at its lowest level since at least the 1970s, but the Associated Press could not resist connecting Hurricane Earl ... (read more)
Rachel Jurado - September 03, 2010
The California State Water Resources Control Board is recommending at least 75 percent of the water in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta System be ... (read more)
Bonner R. Cohen - September 03, 2010
Residents of Idaho’s picturesque Silver Valley are up in arms over a plan by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prolong the cleanup ... (read more)
Bonner R. Cohen - September 03, 2010
Environmental officials in West Virginia and the state’s influential coal industry are locking horns with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ... (read more)
James M. Taylor - September 02, 2010
Environmental extremist James Lee’s plan to force the Discovery Channel to air environmental propaganda ended Wednesday afternoon when police shot ... (read more)
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Well Said!
“By exaggerating the certainties, papering over the gaps, demonizing the skeptics and peddling tales of imminent catastrophe, they’ve discredited the entire climate-change movement. The political damage will be severe. As Mr. Mead succinctly puts it: ‘Skeptics up, Obama down, cap-and-trade dead.’ That also goes for Canada, whose climate policies are inevitably tied to those of the United States.” "We are witnessing the Berlin Wall moment in the global warming regime. The statist cabal that has ruled the climate debate since the UN IPCC's inception in 1988 is now tumbling down before our eyes. The so-called 'gold-standard' of scientific review turns out to be counterfeit. Global warming is now undergoing the fastest ever collapse of any modern political movement.”
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"No climate scientist denies that the present state of the science entails large uncertainties in climate projections, with possible outcomes ranging from benign to catastrophic. While science works to reduce these uncertainties, citizens must decide whether and how much resource should be devoted to mitigating the uncertainly estimated risk."
“The business of science is being skeptical, and if you’re not skeptical, you’re probably not doing science.”
"For those scientists who value their scientific reputations, I would advise that they distance themselves from politically motivated claims of a 'scientific consensus' on the causes of global warming -- before it is too late. Don’t let five Norwegians on the Nobel Prize committee be the arbiters of what is good science." (
"Every time you exhale, you exhale air that has 4 percent carbon dioxide. To say that that's a pollutant just boggles my mind. What used to be science has turned into a cult. . . . All the evidence I see is that the current warming of the climate is just like past warmings."
Jay Lehr, Ph.D. is senior fellow and science director of The Heartland Institute. He is an internationally renowned speaker, scientist, and author who has testified before Congress on more than three dozen occasions on environmental issues, and consulted with nearly every agency of the federal government and with many foreign countries.
