This is a significant update to a post I originally presented July 6th. “Lamestream” media outlets went bonkers with an announcement last month from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, declaring that, “more than 3,000 temperature records have been matched or broken in the past week, continuing a trend that left us with the hottest June on record.” The first question is, 3,000 out of how many potential locations? 100,000? Half-a-million? They never told us. Then the media went on to state that for many cities across the U.S., July 4th was the hottest on record.  However, what...

Yes, it’s been a hot summer—but certainly not everywhere. “Lamestream” media outlets have gone bonkers with an announcement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that, “more than 3,000 temperature records have been matched or broken in the past week, continuing a trend that left us with the hottest June on record.” The first question is, 3,000 out of how many potential locations? 100,000? Half-a-million? The second question is, who’s keeping the records? And of course, the media insists, all of this heat is because of human-caused climate change. In other words, you are...

Before Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), on Tuesday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia threw out a petition challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s claim that carbon dioxide is a lethal “pollutant” that endangers public health because it is a greenhouse gas and a factor in global warming. The Appeals Court decision was based in part on a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that stated the 1970 Clean Air Act empowered the EPA to regulate CO2.  This was clumsy claim, given that the Clean Air Act mentions nothing about CO2. In...

The UN Conference on Sustainable Development has wrapped up in Rio de Janeiro and the overwhelming consensus among participants is that the human population, left unchecked,  is set to force a mass extinction of species. The reason? Human’s are consuming the world’s resources at an alarming rate and are throwing the earth out of balance, say the eco-activists. Unless drastic protocols are emplaced, this terrestrial ball will experience a complete species meltdown, much like the cataclysmic event that killed off the dinosaurs millions of years ago, they contend. The gathering of...

I’ve written extensively about Rachel Carson, author of the bestselling eco-screed, Silent Spring. Carson is the person the U.S. Department of Interior bills as, “The mother of the enivronmental movement.”  Truth is, Carson was a fanatic who purposefully employed junk science to hammer capitalism and begrudge free markets. As I prove in Eco-Tyranny, Carson regularly employed the input of known communists in her writing, including in Silent Spring.  In a word, Carson loathed America. My friend, Alan Caruba, recently penned this brilliant piece on the 50th anniversary of Silent...

I’m dumbstruck. A local TV station here in San Francisco is suggesting that global warming could be the reason a basketball sized chunk of ice fell from the sky Sunday evening, ripping a hole through the roof of a home in Fremont, just east of the Bay. According to KTVU television: The ice that hit the roof of a Fremont home is white, not blue.  Blue ice colored by disinfectant sometimes falls from aircraft lavatories. The chunk left a hole the size of a basketball in the tile roof of the home. The family described a loud crash. When they went outside to look, they found the white ice. Hmmm....

This article, by Brian Sussman, was originally published at American Thinker: Larry Keller had no idea the Environmental Protection Agency employed agents fortified with deadly force until two such men showed up at his home, unannounced, to “question” him. Keller runs a computer consulting business from his Asheville, North Carolina home.  On April 27 he sent an email to the EPA in an attempt to reach Al Armendariz, the EPA regional administrator who, two days earlier, had been caught in a gone-viral YouTube video boasting about his desire to “crucify” Big Oil executives. After watching the...

My critics are speechless. At last week’s International Climate Change Conference, sponsored by the Heartland Institute in Chicago, I asked Czech President Vaclav Klaus a question that caused leftist journalists covering the event to bristle: “For a long time socialists and communists have embraced phony environmental crisis.  Given the fact that your wonderful country was decimated by communism, I’m curious as to why you think socialists and communists tend to embrace these green issues?” Dr. Klaus’ response was to the straight to the point: “Those people who are fighting for global...

Scroll down for further updates: Monday I’m a keynote speaker at the Heartland Institute’s International Climate Conference in Chicago. The conference is being held at the Hilton (President Obama stayed here last night). The Occupy protesters yesterday were quite frankly, frightening.  They marched in a line that was miles long, and their chants included “Fuc- the cops,” “Kill capitalism,” and ironically, “Give peace a chance.” Last night I was floored when one of the founding father’s of meteorology and the man who invented hurricane forecasting,...

A professor teaching environmental studies at Brooklyn College of CUNY has associated deniers of anthropogenic climate change with Holocaust deniers.  Even more disturbing, the professor is himself a Holocaust survivor. Micha Tomkiewicz published a series of blogs on the official campus website, likening climate change to genocide.  “I don’t want my grandchildren to die in a climate change genocide that we could have helped head off because we were waiting for some unattainable certainty about climate change,” he writes. Tomkiewicz is the author a 2011 book, Climate Change: The Fork at the End...

Al Gore has made a living out of scaring the wits out of people. As the most well-known anthropogenic global warming advocate, the former Vice President preaches that the use of fossil fuels will eliminate entire species—perhaps even humans.  In his book, An Inconvenient Truth, he writes, “Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.  That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid.  This time it is...

This story, by Brian Sussman, originally appeared in Forbes. Imagine owning a portfolio valued at an unfathomable fortune, and yet you’re bankrupt. Government laws are preventing you from tapping your assets. There’s no need to envision such a scenario, because as an American, it’s a reality—you’ve been hustled by a federal government beholden to the green agenda. The feds now own nearly 700 million acres of property; land brimming with natural resources vital to our founding principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The tragedy is our government is purposefully keeping the...