He wants to rule the world, not cool the world. In an otherwise robotic speech at a July 7 forum in London, Al Gore let slip two words that reveal his nefarious plans, according to some, for world domination:
The level of awareness and concern among…
July 2009
In less time than it takes to eat an order of fish and chips, this 10-minute video from Greenpeace in Europe assesses the seafood industry from trawl net to store shelf. It doesn’t demand that anyone give up fish. Instead it compares sustainable and…
In an interview, Jacques Derrida said that human violence against animals begins with the word:
I avoid speaking generally about animals. For me, there are not ‘animals.’ When one says ‘animals,’ one has already started to not understand anything,…
When the Governator first proposed shuttering California state parks in May, I argued that could be the best thing for the parks, because wild-land protection often amounts to a slower form of wild-land destruction, trading the swift slaughter of…
Many environmentalists are abandoning the climate bill right when it needs them most, and leading global warming scientist James Hansen just ran to the front of the rat pack with a flag. In a commentary yesterday in the Huffington Post, Hansen…
Writing in the Indianapolis Star, Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner implies the EPA plans to regulate human breath if and when it enacts regulation of carbon dioxide pollution:
You may want to think twice before taking your next deep breath.…
The leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations agreed today to cut their greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050 and to try to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels. The White House…
Writing in Der Spiegel Tuesday, Christian Schwägerl promises to reveal “How the U.S. is blocking progress on climate change,” but not only does he fail to show us the blocking, he has nothing to tell us about the how. Meanwhile, President Obama is…
The Committee on Environment and Public Works launches the Senate’s global warming debate tomorrow, and the best sports metaphor for the witness lineup on day one has to be the soccer shoot-out.
Wearing green and kicking for climate legislation will…
NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt just posted the kind of thought that could serve as a disclaimer on most stories about scientific discoveries: journalists tend to cover new studies, because that’s where the news is, but over time, those newsy…