Climate Change: Much Ado About Nothing

Let’s be blunt: the Poznan Meeting was a disgrace. After two weeks, more than 10,000 delegates and 145 ministers could produce absolutely nothing except the release of some money (peanuts by comparison to credit crunch figures) to aid poorer countries with climate adaptation. Even I can go along with that. They are all waiting for some fairy tale solution to appear in Copenhagen next year, for their ugly duckling to turn into a swan. There will be no fairy tale; indeed, their ugly duckling could well drown in the economic floods. Moreover, at the even more hypocritical EU Summit, Italy, Poland, along with many other EU countries, douched the whole ‘global warming’ agenda in a cold shower of reality, with coal-burning power stations and heavy industries gaining (much-needed, I might add) reprieves. As The Times rightly reports, the down-hearted ‘Greens’ have not been been fooled by the spin...

Warning Signs: Drowning in Green Garbage

We all have one or more of them in our lives. They are the family members, co-workers, or just neighbors who are so convinced that global warming is real and that everything including the choice of a Christmas tree has “environmental” consequences, that any effort to convince them otherwise is a waste of time.

This is why many have come to view environmentalism as a religion despite its trappings as based in science.