Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Be fat and die has been the mantra for decades now. The scientists had figured out the direct correlation between that excess avoirdupois and death. Except it turns out it’s not that simple: Being overweight boosts the risk of dying from diabetes and kidney disease but not cancer or heart
Continue readingI’m all for clean air and water, and a lovely environment. I’m extremely hostile, however, to being bullied. I’ve gotten to the point where I often find myself turning a light on in my home and thinking “Take that Al Gore. I’ll start conserving energy in a serious way when
Continue readingThe global warming indoctrination is working — up to a point. In common with the school children in this John Stossel video, my children are worried about a climate change Armageddon and are hostile to Western culture because “it’s all our fault.” It’s a common topic of conversation. Hot days,
Continue readingFrom NewsBusters’ Paul Detrick: CNN Meteorologist Rob Marciano clapped his hands and exclaimed, “Finally,” in response to a report that a British judge might ban the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” from UK schools because, according to “American Morning,” “it is politically biased and contains scientific inaccuracies.” “There are definitely some
Continue readingNo comment. The text speaks for itself: Global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon and its effects can even be beneficial, according to two leading researchers. Recent climate change is not caused by man-made pollution, but is instead part of a 1,500-year cycle of warming and cooling that has happened
Continue readingI’ve asked it before, but I’ll ask it again: Why do so many on the Left think that the best protest is a naked one? As far as I’m concerned, it’s just a distraction from the main issue. Of course, maybe that’s the point. So often the main issues
Continue readingIt’s old news in the blogosphere, but I was very pleased to see that The Telegraph, one of Britain’s three main newspapers had as a top story (online) Steve McIntyre’s find that NASA climate information was in error: A US blogger has caused a stir in the climate debate by
Continue readingWhen I used to go to Lake Tahoe in the 1960s and early 1970s, the water was such a clear blue it seemed magical. If you took a boat out, you could look straight through to the bottom to incredible depths. The lake area also wasn’t very crowded. You could
Continue readingWith respect to the candy, I’m not sure, actually, whether the following is good news or bad from a dietary standpoint: First it was tortillas in Mexico, then it was Frosted Flakes in America and recently German beer (more…). Now the latest food to become the victim of prices pushed
Continue readingFrom Earl, I got some insight into the machinery that’s used to track the climate change that’s in the headlines all of the time. This is information clearly a matched set with the information that a Y2K bug may well be the culprit behind the sudden sky rocketing in US
Continue readingIn my preceding post, I asked you to watch this space as I gather together stuff to blog about. As I take the time to do that (and intersperse that with time spent running the carpools), I suggest that, if you haven’t already seen it, you take the time to
Continue readingWe were in some nature preserves on our vacation. In each place, on every informational placard, at least half of the material presented was about the fact that this plant or that animal is going extinct. Other species are moving in and destroying the whatever it is. We must stop
Continue readingI’ve mentioned before that the home page on Mr. Bookworm’s browser is the New York Times, which very much affects his outlook on things. I’ve therefore been unsurprised that, in the past year or so, my husband has been mouthing a lot of “green” stuff. “Turn off the lights, to
Continue readingIf this guy is correct it’s really good news, both in terms of saving the world’s vanishing bee population and in terms of taking some of the heat off of global warming (if you’ll pardon the pun). If he’s wrong, that would be a shame, because the culprit he’s identified
Continue readingAt the Weekly Standard, Irwin Stelzer explains that, while we don’t know how deleterious global warming might be, we do know already how damaging, for the poor, efforts to stop global warming already are. This is especially true for ethanol, which turns food crops into fuel. Turns out the remedial
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