Despite the relentless media assault declaring debate is over, catastrophic climate change is just around the corner, and immediate and drastic curtailment of anthropogenic CO2 emissions are our only chance of survival, there remains significant debate in the scientific community. Rather than attempt to refrain what has become countless takes on this point (see links [...]

Al Gore has said Americans are addicted to “short term thinking.” He is correct. Even in the business world, which is presumably rational, timelines often stretch no further than the next quarter’s earnings reports. To think ahead by spans of generations or more is not very common.
Sadly, however, Al Gore fails to emphasize - for reasons either [...]

It would be fitting, after just reporting on a recent appearance by Former Vice President Al Gore (ref. Al Gore and Innovation), to review his latest book “The Assault on Reason.”  The premise of the book is that modern mass media constitutes a relentless march towards “one way conversations,” where money and power dictate what radio, [...]

That is the relevant question, when you read alarmist stories about ice melt in Antarctica.  On March 25th, for example, the BBC dutifully reported “Antarctic Shelf Hangs by a Thread” in a report by science correspondant Helen Briggs.  Here is the tag line below the title:  “A chunk of ice the size of the Isle of [...]

The latest satellite data could suggest that CO2-driven increases in water vapor actually cool the earth, not magnify warming, and equally interesting, the lastest float buoy data could suggest the ocean is cooling - at least since 2003 when they became operational. It is almost impossible to find any of this in the mainstream [...]

There is a 9 minute video on www.youtube.com entitled “Most Terrifying Video You’ll Ever See,” posted by a “johnq5″ back in Sept. 2007, and already viewed by over 3.3 million people.

A spectre of rising seas can awaken primal
fears in even the most rational among us.

In the video, a very articulate man with a white board [...]

Earlier this month we posted a feature article entitled “35 Inconvenient Truths” by Christopher Monckton.  The story attracted a number of emails, but none that actually challenged the content.  The reason we continue to post this side of the debate is because in our research, talking with climate scientists and doing our own fact checking, [...]