Climate Confusion
How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians, and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor by Roy W. Spencer (2008, Encounter Books) Spencer is one of those bogeymen you may...
View ArticleBill McKibben: Extravagant Emotional Excess
A few weeks ago I read Bill McKibben’s 1989 book, The End of Nature. It’s considered the first mainstream book on global warming and is, one presumes, part of the reason McKibben is a revered...
View ArticleA Bogus 21-Year-Old Climate Prediction
In 1989 the first global warming book for a general audience was published. Titled The End of Nature, it was written by Bill McKibben, a morose young man with a dim view of humanity and an idealized...
View ArticleBill McKibben’s Bad Example
When the late Michael Crichton appeared before a committee of the US Senate in 2005, he introduced himself this way: I am Michael Crichton, known to most people as the author of Jurassic Park and the...
View ArticleBill McKibben Says It’s Urgent
The Nation, America’s oldest magazine, is self-described at Amazon.com as “the flagship of the Left.” However, if one arrives as a casual reader at the magazine’s website, its About page displays a...
View ArticleIntermission (And Why Bill McKibben is an Utter Fool)
This blog will return in mid-September. In the meantime, here’s a video of a presentation I gave in Australia last month – and some thoughts on the bankruptcy of contemporary green analysis. To those...
View ArticlePapering Over Sappy Bill McKibben
A new, 73-page paper about America’s “most visible environmental activist” doesn’t mention that he’s an emotional basketcase. When I began researching the climate debate I made a point of reading...
View Article‘Carbon Pollution’ Jargon is Sick and Twisted
If carbon dioxide is pollution, every human being is a perpetual pollution factory. Every toddler in their sandbox generates CO2 every minute of every day. . Twenty-four years ago, in what is...
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