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Offset Your Lunch?
The next time you grab a burger for lunch, you’re part of the global warming problem. That, at least, is the upshot of a…
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One Out of Two Ain’t Bad
I’m pleased to report that Al Gore is innocent of charges of hypocrisy related to serving Chilean Sea Bass at his daughter’s wedding celebrations. The…
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India Adapts
Deepak Lal has a typically thoughtful essay in New Delhi’s Business-Standard this week. He finds there are many reasons for India to rethink its…
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Why So Shy?
After Live Earth missed its promised audience of 2 billion by about, oh, 1.9 billion (and that’s charitable), one has to wonder how much money…
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A message from the President of the American Council on Renewable Energy
A few days ago, our colleague Dr. Marlo Lewis had a column over at The American Spectator on the current debate in Congress over…
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Less reliable than Old Ben’s Almanack?
Tim Worstall has a very interesting post over at the Adam Smith Institute blog on the validity of those temperature projections that get the…
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Delegated democracy?
Paul Chesser of North Carolina’s John Locke Foundation has a useful article in today’s Washington Times about how one advocacy group, funded by leftist…
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Live Earth Tree Falls in Silent Forest
Well, Live Earth has been and gone like a tree falling in a forest with no one around: Just 22% said they followed news…
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Grindhouse Grinds Down Crime
It’s received wisdom that violent movies encourage violence and that if only we were like our enlightened European cousins and restricted violence in movie theaters,…
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A New Way to Fund the Madrassas?
One complaint from national security hawks about the developed world’s use of oil has been that it directs Western money to Middle Eastern sources who…
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Omnipave Goes Green
Ain’t this the truth? “Most of what you see today in the green movement is voodoo marketing,” he added. “If they say their product…
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Sarkocialism
The ONLY good thing about the EU in my opinion has been its commitment to a single market and attacks on state aid. The harmonization…
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A couple of bucks stop here
A new survey from the strange combination of Resources for the Future, New Scientist, and Stanford University has some interesting findings not just on…
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Are European Roads Safer Than America’s?
Marlo was just on an interview on CNBC where a question was asked about road accident rates. A Greenpeace spokesman said that European roads were…
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Derby Winners
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Another Triumph for Science!
The EU has now banned the barometer. Why? British Labour MEP, Linda McAvan, welcomed the ban: “Research has shown that even at low doses…
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How Green is Flying?
One of Europe’s leading budget airlines, EasyJet, has claimed that people who really care about the environment should use it. This attracted the attention of…
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And we’re the well-funded ones?
Banking firm HSBC is to give $100 million to various environmental groups to “respond to global warming.” According to the HSBC press release,…
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Carbon Atoms and the Riddle of Existence
Spiked's Josie Appleton really hits the nail on the head in her excellent review of a new book by noted alarmist Mark Lynas. For…
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Americans drive less – what does that tell us?
It appears that, for the first time in 26 years, the average American is driving less. Between March 06 and March 07, the figures…
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This is not energy independence
Anyone who saw Good Morning America today will at last have been clued in to how the ethanol boondoggle is driving up the price of…
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Market Signal
It is a tenet of free market environmentalism that market signals provide information about the environment and its value. Therefore, when people stop buying beachfront…
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Rupert Murdoch’s Gas-Guzzling Hybrid
Rupert Murdoch, a hate figure for much of the Left, especially in Britain, has declared that he is proud to go green. One of…
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Carbon Offsets and Snake Oil
EasyJet, one of Europe’s biggest budget airlines, has taken a look at the carbon offset business and doesn’t like what it found: Toby Nicol,…
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Global Warming Round-up
It’s a while since I’ve done one of these, but here are some global warming-related stories you may have missed. Canada sets own emissions…
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Lewis Black on Eco-celebs
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Re: The Clothesline
We used a clothesline when I was growing up, but were forever running outside to grab the clothes when the sky darkened. In the North-East…
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Could this be the end
… of a beautiful friendship?…
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Toilet Humor
Sheryl Crow is now claiming that her toilet paper idea was a joke.The reaction to it should tell her something about the environmental movement. …
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You would need a heart of stone
…not to laugh at the sanctimony and earnestness displayed by the Global Warming Sistas Laurie David and Sheryl Crow in their blog. Here’s Crow:…