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They can’t read very well, but they hate carbon emissions

Schools constantly complain about the pressure to meet actual academic standards, but they somehow always find time to beat the children over the heads with social or political issues — and always from...

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Biofuels — more trouble than they’re worth

I’m reading a great book right now called Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming, by Bjørn Lomborg. Lomborg’s premise is simple: global warming is real and we contribute to...

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Let me count the ways

Marc Sheppard deconstructs the factual assertions Gore makes in his recent Rolling Stone interview.  Al Gore’s ultimate conclusions about climate change may be right but, for me, it saps his...

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More problems with climate predictions

This just in: The researchers compared predictions of 22 widely used climate “models” — elaborate schematics that try to forecast how the global weather system will behave — with actual readings...

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Um, er, um — maybe it’s not all global warming’s fault

Boy, the discoveries just keep piling up, don’t they, all indicating that Al Bore may have been over-interpreting the scientific data, just a little bit: Global warming may not be the only thing...

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Another inconvenient truth

Poor Al Gore. He thought his inconvenient truth was that poor frog in the boiling water. It’s beginning to look as if the real inconvenient truth, however, may be that the anthropocentric global...

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Britain starting to examine the law of unintended consequences

I would dearly love to see us stop funding Islamists by buying oil from the Middle East. To me, that means two things: examining our own oil sources (ANWAR, anyone?) and/or developing alternative...

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Another blow to the greenies

I have no comment for this one, ’cause you know what I’m thinking (not to mention the fact that I’ve already discussed this risk occurring long before the NY Times and the rest of the public figured it...

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Philip’s Complaint, or Liberal political thinking in a nutshell

I’ve never been able to read Philip Roth’s novels because I cannot stand his navel gazing (or should I say penis-gazing?) characters. They are, for me, profoundly uninteresting — I find them infantile...

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I get it: cold weather creates global warming

It took me a while, but I finally figured it out. First, CNN explained to me the single greatest cause of global warming: Cutting down trees is pretty much one of the worst things you can do when it...

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