The Reference Frame: APS is reviewing its statements on climate change

Climate alarmism is a particularly embarrassing attitude for professional institutions that should represent disciplines with very high intellectual standards because climate alarmism is associated with extremely poor intellectual (and ethical) standards, besides other negative characteristics.

The Free Press, Mankato, MN - Your View: Warming a man-made hoax

[Ryan Roberts, Madelia] One last thing, in your last paragraph, you said that “those who deny global warming are either terribly misinformed or easily manipulated.” I must object because I deny global warming, regardless of the fact that I have seen both sides of the argument, taken in the facts and come up with my own conclusion, without being told what to think. I think it is you who are misinformed and easily manipulated.

Wrigley’s with a kick? by Jay Nordlinger on National Review Online

I hope you’ll bear with me while I make a familiar point: There is something in America’s liberal officeholders that compels them to go around the world apologizing for our country’s sins, real or imagined. And these liberals do a fair amount of imagining.

So, the secretary of state, Hillary, was in India, apologizing for America’s triggering of global warming. Specifically, she said, “We acknowledge now with President Obama that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed countries have contributed most significantly to the problem that we face with climate change.”

“Most significantly”? If every country had the environmental record of the United States, the planet would be well-nigh pristine. It is an unfree economy that makes dirty, as well as poor, not a free economy. Sober analysts recognize this. Ideology-soaked political evangelists do not.