October 12, 2009

Climate Myths and National Security

The President of the United States recently told the United Nations that "global warming" poses a threat to national security and may engender conflicts as populations are displaced by rising sea levels, droughts, floods, storms etc. etc. e...

April 28, 2009

Deliberate misrepresentation

Clark Hoyt, Esq., Public Editor and Readers' Representative,The New York Times.Dear Mr. Hoyt,The New York Times guidelines for staff writers on "Journalistic Ethics" begin by stating the principles that all journalists should respect: impar...

January 25, 2009

Scare Watch: 'Arctic warming is unprecedented'

The scare: In late January 2009, a U.S. government report on Arctic climate, prepared by an international team of 37 climatologists, concluded that the recent rapid warming of polar temperatures and shrinking of multi-year Arctic sea ice are "hi...

December 10, 2008

'Companies could be sued over climate change'

The scare In early December 2008, The Guardian, a newspaper of the British Left and an unquestioning true-believer in the catastrophist version of climate alarm, quoted Professor Myles Allen, a physicist at Oxford University, as saying computer model...

November 26, 2008

Obama on the 'urgency' of combating 'global warming'

Obama's World View on Energy and Climate In a video shown at a costly, two-day "global warming" jamboree at the Beverly Hills Hotel, hosted by Governor Schwarzenegger of California in November 2008, Barack Obama said: "Few challenges f...

October 18, 2008

An open letter from The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley to Senator John McCain about Climate Science and Policy

Open letter from The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley to Senator John McCain about Climate Science and Policy.  Dear Senator McCain, Sir,YOU CHOSE a visit to a wind-farm in early summer 2008 to devote an entire campaign speech to the reassertion o...

October 18, 2008

An open letter from The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley to Senator John McCain about Climate Science and Policy (2)

The facts about "rising sea levels"You have said: "We need to deal with the central facts of ... rising waters."The "central facts" about "rising" sea levels are as follows.Sea level has been rising since the e...

October 18, 2008

An open letter from The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley to Senator John McCain about Climate Science and Policy (3)

Public policy and the climateGlobal intervention: your proposed remedy for "market failure"You have said: "For all the good work of entrepreneurs and inventors in finding cleaner and better technologies, the fundamental incentives of t...

October 18, 2008

An open letter from The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley to Senator John McCain about Climate Science and Policy (4)

The threat that your policies pose to international free tradeYou have said: "If the efforts to negotiate an international solution that includes China and India do not succeed, we still have an obligation to act. In my approach to global climat...