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Climate Alarmism Bullying: L’affaire Schmidt (new) … L’affaire Wigley (old)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 6, 2009

Chris Horner’s Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed (Regnery, 2008) documents a number of instances of questionable, peculiar, and even reprehensible behavior by climate alarmists toward their critics.

And the problem continues.…

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UN Chiefs see Glimmer of Reality but Remain Wedded to Dangerous Fantasy

By -- February 5, 2009

Can there be a Kyoto II without China, India, and the other developing countries getting on board with significant greenhouse-gas emissions reductions? Voices of realism, knowing that consumer and economic factors drive public opinion, doubt it. But there are less realistic voices too.…

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California’s Path to Regulatory Hari-Kari: For What Climate Effect?

By Chip Knappenberger --

Ken Green’s post on California’s global-warming policy commented on the sad state of California’s economy under the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Assembly Bill 32, or AB 32) . This raises the question: What is California climatically achieving for its sacrifice?

The answer? Even an immediate and complete cessation of all greenhouse gas emissions from California now and forever would result in no meaningful impact on the future course of climate change.

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Beware Windpower’s “Homes Served” Claims

By Glenn Schleede -- February 4, 2009
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Long Live Old King Coal?

By Robert Bradley Jr. --
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Coal Hard Facts

By Robert Bryce -- February 3, 2009
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What Happened to ‘Painless’ Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Greet, Meet, and Exceed the Kyoto Protocol Targets?

By Robert Bradley Jr. --
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Lessons from California

By Kenneth P. Green --
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John Holdren in Retrospect (Part VIII on Obama’s New Science Advisor)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 2, 2009
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W. S. Jevons (1865) on Energy Efficiency (Memo to Obama, Part IV)

By Robert Bradley Jr. --
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