Written by Peter Heck
It was always one of the most frustrating aspects of Barack Obama‘s rise to power. While the famous keynote speech he delivered at the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him to fame, the rhetoric he used there was a startling departure from his previously established reputation as an instigator and agitator.
Obama cut his teeth in the dirty arena of corrupt Chicago politics, having learned the duplicitous art of “community organizing” from some of the most notorious theorists (Saul Alinsky), and even criminal mentors (Bill Ayers).… Continue Reading
Written by Robert T. Smith
It is quite often the case that the simplest explanation is the correct explanation. The namesake for this principle comes from the English philosopher and theologian, Franciscan friar William of Ockham. It is called Occam’s razor. From various sources, Occam’s razor is a principle of parsimony or frugality used in logic and problem-solving. It states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. Perhaps Occam’s razor can be appropriately applied to many of our current issues.… Continue Reading
Tags: Climate Change, Global Warming, greenhouse gases, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Occam’s razor, Richard Mueller, Ross McKitrick, Stephen McIntyre, Thames River, William of Ockham
Climate Change | David E. Smith | March 22, 2021 8:37 AM | Comments Off on Climate Change Deliberation: Taking Occam’s Razor to Proxy Data
Written by Trevor Thomas
If you’ve enjoyed the last 10 months of foolish, science-denying lockdowns and mask mandates, the widespread destruction of businesses and economies, the government telling you what jobs are “essential” and how you are to conduct yourself in your own home, then you must absolutely love the Democrats’ climate agenda.
For decades, the climate cultists from the “New Religion of First World Elites” have attempted to use fear—the destruction of the planet—and a fake cause—saving the planet—to convince Americans to vote for Democrats and enact the perverse science-denying climate agenda of the modern left.
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Written by Vijay Jayaraj
Late in April Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for the 2020 presidential elections, acknowledged that he is ready to embrace the Green New Deal aimed at making sweeping changes to America’s energy spectrum.
This signals more danger to the American economy, which is already reeling under the pressure of the coronavirus lockdowns.
There is hope the economy will recover from this coronavirus slump, but not if the nation implements the Green New Deal.… Continue Reading
Written by Stephen Moore
Is the left once again embracing Malthusian population control in order to save the planet?
Of all the preposterous proposals put forward by the Democratic presidential candidates during the CNN climate change town hall meeting last week, the dumbest wasn’t outlawing plastic straws, incandescent light bulbs or air travel. It wasn’t the contention that climate change is the globe’s greatest threat since World War II. It wasn’t even the fantastical hypothesis that hurricanes are racist because they target “communities of color” more than white areas.… Continue Reading
Tags: 2020 Election, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Climate Change, CNN, Global Warming, Julian Simon, Miley Cyrus, plastic straw ban, Population control, Prince Harry, University of Illinois
Federal Elections, Political, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | September 10, 2019 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Democrats Once Again Embrace Population Control to Save the Planet
Written by Peter Heck
NPR recently ran a silly story with this provocative headline: “We All Owe Al Gore an Apology.” I dissent.
Let’s first be clear about Gore. After losing the 2000 presidential election, Gore found a cause to peddle in global warming. He partnered with affluent donors, created a documentary full of hyperbolic exaggeration and dire warnings about an impending ecological armageddon, and made millions. And millions. He divorced his wife and became the international playboy of global warming-turned-climate change-turned-climate disruption-turned-whatever we’re calling it now.… Continue Reading
Tags: Al Gore, Angel Portillo, Arkansas River, Climate Change, Global Warming, Nathan Rott, NPR, Peter Heck
Climate Change, Media Watch | David E. Smith | June 14, 2019 9:00 AM | Comments Off on Al Gore Deserves Shame, Not an Apology
Written by Vijay Jayaraj
Myths usually sound fascinating. Myths are things that never happened, stories that aren’t true, though often we wish they were, for various reasons.
As a young boy, I wanted to know if Big Foot was an actual animal. I saw almost every documentary that claimed to show evidence of Big Foot’s existence. And don’t get me started on flying saucers.
Despite its place in popular Internet theory, most people—including me—consider Big Foot continue a myth.… Continue Reading
Tags: Al Gore, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Big Foot, Black New Deal, extreme weather patterns, Global Warming, Green New Deal, Ice Age, Mueller's Report, sea-level rise, United Nations, Vijay Jayaraj
Climate Change | David E. Smith | April 18, 2019 8:00 AM | Comments Off on Big Foot, Russia Collusion, Black New Deals, and Extreme Climate Change: A World of Myths and Media Brain-Fade
Written by David Limbaugh
Meaning no disrespect to climate alarmists of the past half-century, who have been quite formidable in their doomsday warnings, the modern era has ushered in a new wave of scaremongers who threaten to eclipse their predecessors.
This shouldn’t discourage the original enviro-wackos of the 1970s, who hadn’t accumulated sufficient empirical data to support their burgeoning secular religion. Give those people a break; how were they to know they’d have egg on their faces for predicting apocalyptic global cooling?… Continue Reading
Tags: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Blaise Pascal, Climate Change, Donald Trump, forest fires, global cooling, Global Warming, Jimmy Carter, Katy Tur, MSNBC, Ronald Reagan
Climate Change | David E. Smith | December 10, 2018 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Environmentalism, Pantheism, Statism and Pessimism
Written by William Balgord And E. Calvin Beisner
Curiously, the mainstream media seem to have ignored the story, but it’s an important one. Buzzfeed reported August 7 that “YouTube Is Fighting Back Against Climate Misinformation.”
As of July 9, “YouTube is now adding fact checks to videos that question climate change … as a part of its ongoing effort to combat the rampant misinformation and conspiratorial fodder on its platform.”
But neither YouTube nor Wikipedia, the source of its “fact check,” is qualified to function as unassailable arbiter calling balls and strikes over what is or isn’t fact in any given field of human inquiry.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alfred P. Sloan, Anthony Leiserowitz, Bill Balgord, BuzzFeed, Climate Change, Climate Change Communication, CO2 emissions, E. Calvin Beisner, Global Warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, James Hansen, NASA, Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change, PragerU, Richard Lindzen, United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Wikipedia, YouTube
Climate Change | David E. Smith | August 30, 2018 6:00 AM | Comments Off on YouTube Is Fighting against Scientific Inquiry and the Expansion of Human Knowledge
Written by Joy Overbeck
Christians believe humankind is God’s all-time favorite creation because He tells us so in the Bible. But leftist/socialists often known as Democrats think humans are an evil, toxic blight bent on destroying the planet through heinous activities like gassing up our cars. Boom. This is the war of the opposing worldviews going on today and it’s worldwide. It encompasses every important issue including man-caused global warming.
Leftists think homo sapiens started out as a random blob of cells zapped by electricity (no word on where the cells and electricity came from without a primal source such as God) that evolved into a greedy, evil animal with the magical ability to control the climate.… Continue Reading