Tag: Climate
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About That “Catastrophic” Gusher in the Gulf… Meh.
There’s a BP station on the route between my home and my work, and that’s where I always get my gas. I’m not a fan of boycotts, especially ones that primarily victimize local business owners with no say in corporate affairs. Besides, the station charges the same price for cash or credit. It’s hard to […]
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“Hide the Decline”: The Remake
I started noodling with a blog post about the viral video “Hide the Decline” when it first came out late last year in the wake of the Climategate disclosures. The video, produced in a low-rent imitation of the style of the famous Jib Jab masterpiece, is a parody based on the song “Draggin’ the Line” […]
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It’s Getting Harder to Hide the Decline
When I was a newspaper reporter — back in the last ice age, har har har — I was assigned to cover a press conference staged by an agency of the New Jersey state government.
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“Hide the Decline”: Birth of a Blog Post, and Credit Where Credit is Due
If you think global warming is probably "settled science," but you’re willing to read one article to give skeptics a chance to change your mind, read this remarkable indictment, published all the way last Tuesday, while the pixels of the original leak were still quivering.
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“Hide the Decline”: Global Warmists Got Some ‘Splainin’ to Do
While referring to "the global warming hoax" may be a step too far, I think it’s clear now that there have been multiple global warming "hoaxes". If you have no idea what I’m leading up to, you might want to consider broadening your information sources.
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Better Pass It Quickly — Someone Might Read It!
Once again the Democrats in Congress are trying to push through a hugely expensive and controversial bill that nobody — literally nobody — has read. In February, as Congressional leaders and the Obama Administration were twisting arms to gather the votes they needed for the $800 zillion porkulus bill, I wrote this: When listening to […]
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Global Warming and the Anthropogenic Financial Crisis
When listening to President Obama’s dire predictions of “catastrophe” if a stimulus bill is not passed now now now now now, is anyone else reminded of the global warming debate? Even most skeptics about what Taranto calls “global warmism” would concede that there are valid reasons to want to reduce the use of fossil fuels […]