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Memo to Motorola: Shareholder value comes first

A colleague, Steve Goreham, author of the increasingly acclaimed Climatism! Science, Common Sense and the 21st Century's Hottest Topic, attended the annual meeting of Motorola Inc. shareholders May 3 in suburban Chicago.



Steve is disappointed in the environmental policies of his former employer, specifically Motorola's role as a founding member of the… Continue

Added by Dan Miller on May 5, 2010 at 2:36pm — 1 Comment

Global Warming to Blame for Icelandic Volcanic Eruption

So says Alan Weisman, the author of the best-selling book, The World Without Us — which, considering the tone of his latest piece on CNN.com, seems to be more of a wish than a prediction.


I'll hand it to Weisman. He's a talented writer. His prose is somewhat of a joy to read. Yet "somewhat" is a necessary qualifier because the content of what he writes…
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Added by Jim Lakely on April 23, 2010 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

Top U.S. Energy Experts Condemn Energy Use? What's Up with That?

Lawrence Summers In early April, the Energy Information Administration and School of Advanced International Studies hosted a Washington, DC conference addressing energy issues. Heartland Institute Policy Advisor Jim Johnston, who attended the event, said the speakers essentially "condemned energy use."

Among those speakers were Energy Secretary and 1997 Nobel laureate in physics Steven Chu and former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers (right), director of the…

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Added by Diane Carol Bast on April 23, 2010 at 12:22pm — No Comments

Time to Make Your Voices Heard on Climate Change

The State Department, which recently issued its Fifth Climate Action Report to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, is deigning to allow public comments on that report ... until May 6.

As Heartland Senior Fellow James M. Taylor recently reported, the State Department's report concludes, "Global warming is unequivocal and primarily human-induced ... Global temperature has increased over the past…

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Added by Diane Carol Bast on April 23, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Celebrate Earth Day by Polluting the Air

That's not a joke. OK. It's kind of a joke to most of us around here. But it's not a joke at all to Science magazine correspondent Eli Kintisch who penned an oped for Sunday's Los Angeles Times. He warned that the great strides we've made in the last 40 years reducing air pollution is actually going to make global warming worse.


Please sit down…
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Added by Jim Lakely on April 22, 2010 at 8:30am — 3 Comments

Heartland analyst: State Dept. global warming report is 'laughable'

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April 21, 2010



The U.S. State Department has released a draft of its fifth U.S. Climate Action Report that will be sent to the United Nations. The report states bluntly: "Global warming is unequivocal and primarily human-induced ... Global temperature has increased over the past 50 years. This observed increase is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases."… Continue

Added by Dan Miller on April 21, 2010 at 2:25pm — No Comments

Rasmussen: Ghosts & GW all the same to one-fourth of Americans

Erudite, witty blogger Tom Nelson read the latest Rasmussen poll of Americans on global warming, and it triggered a memory. Rasmussen found that 59 percent of Americans now believe there is a significant disagreement within the scientific

community over global warming, up seven points from early December.



The pollster… Continue

Added by Dan Miller on April 21, 2010 at 1:41pm — No Comments

Christian Science Monitor gets it right on carbon trading -- will politicians and opinion leaders in the U.S. listen?

The Christian Science Monitor has a six-part investigative report on carbon cap-and-trade. The results aren't particularly surprising; the first article in the series reports:

An investigation by The Christian Science Monitor and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting has found that individuals and businesses who are feeding a $700…
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Added by Diane Carol Bast on April 21, 2010 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Public audit gives IPCC report a solid F grade

21 of 44 chapters in the United Nations' Nobel-Prize-winning climate bible

earned an F on a report card issued by the Canadian blog No Frakking Consensus.



Forty citizen auditors from 12 countries examined 18,531 sources cited in the report – finding 5,587 to

be not peer-reviewed.



Here are the major findings:



# All 18,531 references cited in the 2007… Continue

Added by Dan Miller on April 15, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

A good book on climate change for your summer reading list

Are you looking for a good book on climate change? Heartland Science Director Jay Lehr strongly recommends Climatism! by Steve Goreham, just released and available at Amazon.

See Jay's extensive review. I read it and found it "helpful!"

Added by Diane Carol Bast on April 15, 2010 at 11:34am — 2 Comments

Urrrth to USA Today: He's a Crackpot

Climate catastrophist Bill McKibben is out with a new book (presumably much like his others) titled Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, which USA Today in all seriousness describes as "a dire, frightening call to action. It talks about the planet melting, drying, acidifying,…

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Added by Paul Chesser on April 10, 2010 at 11:39am — No Comments

Stopping Climate Change Requires 'Putting Democracy on Hold for a While'

It was inevitable that such a view would be expressed openly by the global warming alarmists — considering the remedies global bodies have long proposed to battle climate change have more than a whiff of tyranny to them (population control, travel restrictions, industry destruction, etc.).


James Lovelock, 90, described by The Guardian of London as "the globally respected…
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Added by Jim Lakely on March 31, 2010 at 9:00pm — No Comments

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