Dr. Peter Gleick is a rock star amongst the climate change crowd.  He has penned lengthy articles about global warming, received a MacArthur “genius award,” and has even testified before Congress.  Gleick also runs the nonprofit Pacific Institute in Oakland—an organization dedicated to teaching global warming as absolute fact in America’s public schools. But now the Berkeley resident finds himself at the center of a national scandal of his own making: using a phony name to obtain confidential documents from the Heartland Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank known for its...

This article, by Brian Sussman, was originally posted by Human Events: MONTARA, Calif. — Last week, a federal park ranger armed with a Taser zapped a man walking his two small dogs in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.  His crime? Allowing one of the dogs to walk off-leash. The Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) is an enormous piece of real estate that stretches along the coast, north and south of San Francisco.  Despite occasional postings noting that dogs are to be leashed, for decades many local residents walking and hiking through the more remote areas of the GGNRA...

This article, by Brian Sussman, was posted at Human Events: SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — Last week, more than 200 prisoners at California’s notorious San Quentin State Prison turned out for a “green jobs” fair. The soon-to-be-released felons were greeted by representatives from several nonprofit groups and training programs, all offering advice and information about the ecologically friendly employment opportunities that supposedly await the men beyond the prison’s gates. The event was sponsored by the California Reentry Program, a social service agency that works with prisoners who are...

This story, by Brian Sussman, was published at Human Events: This month, the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a nonprofit group that denounces intelligent design and supports evolution-only curricula in the classroom, is expanding its mission. The organization is determined to silence global warming deniers, and is unfurling an aggressive effort to teach America’s schoolchildren that climate change is real and is being caused by human activity. The NCSE has created a website filled with propaganda aimed at equipping educators with rhetoric to denounce what they describe as, “The...

This article, written by Brian Sussman, was originally posted at American Thinker Flying to and from Europe just became more expensive thanks to the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).  The ETS was instituted in January 2005, in an attempt to control greenhouse gas emissions, specifically carbon dioxide.  Initially the scheme applied to power-generating facilities, oil refineries, steelworks, and other heavy industry in Europe.  Now, as of the first of the year, the regulations have reached the airline industry, including aircraft based in the United States. Flights to and from...