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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2009 10 Comments

Why am I not surprised. The head of the UN's climate organization has demanded that American taxpayers "show me the money" by funding billions of dollars of climate change programs in poorer countries:At the Copenhagen climate summit, the world’s top environment watchdog welcomed the fact...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2009 15 Comments

Yow. Per Rasmussen poll just released (h/t HotAir), Tea Party Tops GOP on Three-Way Generic Ballot:In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2009 20 Comments

Despite mounting evidence that key climate researchers were less than honest, and other indications that the science is not settled, tomorrow 56 newspapers will run a common front page editorial saying we have 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation':Tomorrow 56 newspapers in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2009 3 Comments

Barack Obama has changed his plans and now will be attending the last day of the Copenhagen climate change conference, which is viewed as a significant signal that some sort of "deal" may be in the offing:A couple of hours ago, the Obama administration announced...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2009 5 Comments

Did you hear what she just said? And it was all recorded, so she cannot deny it.There she goes again. You know who I'm talking about, and what it was. The thought of her in Washington, D.C., when we have such serious issues to deal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 26, 2009 9 Comments

Ithaca, NY, where I work, is in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. Ithacans hate global warming because it is so corporate and capitalist.So at what point in time should global warming have stopped?"The 'Ice age' was really a series of many advances...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2009 7 Comments

When the story of the e-mails "hacked" (or leaked) from a British climate institute first exploded, I was very cautious. I'm turning from a "hacked e-mails skeptic" to a "hacked e-mails believer" for two reasons.First, numerous bloggers have done a good job exploring and explaining...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2009 5 Comments

The other day, when the news of "hacked" e-mails from a British climate institute hit the internet, I wrote Why The "Hacked E-Mails" Don't Interest Me, Yet.In the post, I noted that I did not have the time to devote to the hacked e-mails because...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2009 5 Comments

The internet is on fire due to the heat generated by the e-mails hacked from a British climate institute, "allegedly" showing that some scientists, in order to justify their grant money, may have phonied-up some global climate numbers.I refuse to join the bandwagon alerting the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2009 11 Comments

Barack Obama is on another "it's all Bush's fault" tear again. This time, using the tired campaign theme of cleaning up Bush's mess:Another way of putting it is when, you know, I'm busy and Nancy busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else’s mess –-...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2009 3 Comments

John Kerry has a column at Huffington Post, beating the "global warming is a threat to national security" dead horse.Been there, done that.Kerry can't make the economic or environmental case for cap-and-tax regulations, so he resorts to fear-mongering based on speculative worst-case scenarios:Climate change injects...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2009 4 Comments

An article in the NY Times, Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security, deserves a special place in the annals of journalism in the service of liberal politics. The thrust of the article is that global climate change "could" cause massive geopolitical disruption in...

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