Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category

Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.Com Manipulates and Misleads Its Readers

4th February 2010 by admin No Comments

We’re all for keeping government small where appropriate, which is, ideally, most places.
But we’re not all for the blatant pattern of subjective misrepresentation that goes on, virtually unchecked, all over the Internet — including by sites that are routinely, well, cited.
In this Post, a Biggovernment.com writer starts blatantly spinning in the second sentence (emphasis added):
…basis [...]

That’s Exactly What We Wanted to Know

18th January 2010 by admin 1 Comment

Wang, from Brussels, asks:
One final point: why does the “Green Room” never give space to articles from “global warming sceptics”? Where is the platform for these views on the BBC? The odd reader’s comment sneaked at the bottom of the usual “warmist” article is not enough. Wang, brussels, belgium
Exactly.
And another question [...]

It’s Now Six Minutes to Midnight.

17th January 2010 by admin No Comments

Six minutes to midnight refers to the time on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ “doomsday clock.”
If six minutes to midnight sounds bad, consider that until just recently, it was five minutes to midnight.
The scientist give two reasons for this.  One seems reasonable, the other does not.
The first has to do with efforts to reduce [...]

The Lengths to Which Some Go to Fight Against the Idea that We Influence the Skies

25th September 2009 by admin No Comments

Here is another Insta-BS link,  perhaps gloriously citing the idea that global warming data may have disappeared!
Quoting from the link itself (NRO’s gloriously subjective “The Corner” blog, with emphasis added):
Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates such as cap-and-trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this [...]