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Climate Change

  • Peer Review, Science Data, and the Public's Right to Know

    The public has the right to information about publicly funded research through the FOIA. Some details of the peer review process are held as confidential to protect the integrity of the process. Read more

  • Lord Monckton: A British Sophist in the U.S. Congress

    Sophists: Originally, a sophist was someone wise or clever. With the rise of Democracy in Athens, sophists found it profitable to serve aspiring politicians. For a fee, they would argue on behalf of their patron or provide constructed arguments, or talking points, if the politician wished to appear learned. Expert Sophists claimed that, by skilled… Read more

  • Robert Bryce's "Myths about Green Energy"

    What Mr. Bryce claims as myths are mostly true. Our energy needs will best be served by a mixture of traditional and alternate energy sources and we should not let Mr. Bryce’s opinions keep us from developing the alternate sources. Read more

  • A New Tactic in the Climate Change Debate

    The new tactic in the global warming debate is just a call to inaction. It advises we should just ignore the problem and adapt to the changes. However, that approach ignores the environmental catastrophes that might be caused by that approach. Read more

  • Is EPA Regulation of CO2 a "Power Grab"?

    Congressman Frank Lucas (R-OK), in Frankly Speaking (3/10/2010), wants to rein in what he calls “the EPA power grab” to limit carbon emissions. That is hardly the case. The Supreme Court, in Massachusetts v. EPA, ordered the environmental protection agency to make a determination as to whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant. The EPA has… Read more

  • Environmental Hall of Fame/Shame 2009 Awards

    Benno Hansen, a ThinkAboutIt Blogger from Copenhagen has been chosen for the Environmental Hall of Fame Award. SpaceGuy, a Newsvine blogger has been chosen for the Environmental Hall of Shame Award for seeds to the stolen CRU e-mails and his attacks on climate scientists. Read more

  • George Will: Blinded by Science of Climate Change

    This article is a critical analysis of George Will’s article “Blinded by science on climate change”. Read more

  • The Oregon Petition: Can 31,000 Scientists Be Wrong?

    Supposedly, 31,000 outraged scientists have signed the Oregon Petition, which says that a reduction in carbon dioxide “would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind”. (1) That is an impressive sounding number of scientists, but considering there are 23 million scientists and engineers in… Read more

  • Vote for the Environmental Hall of Fame/Shame

    The article lists the 2009 Nominees for the Environmental Hall of Fame/Shame and gives the reader an opportunity to vote until February 20. Read more

  • Top 10 Reasons Real Scientists Will Not Debate …….Dissident Scientists

    Mant columnists have called for a debate between real scientists and dissident scientists on the global warming issue. Here are the top ten reasons that debate will never happen. Read more