December 18, 2008
| Cooler Heads
From the author of the New York Times bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) comes Red Hot Lies, an exposé of the hypocrisy, deceit, and outright lies of the global warming alarmists and the compliant media that support them. Did you know that most scientists are global warming skeptics? Or that environmental alarmists have knowingly promoted false and exaggerated data on global warming? Or that in the Left's efforts to suppress free speech (and scientific research), they have compared global warming dissent with "treason"? Shocking, frank, and illuminating, Chris Horner's Red Hot Lies explodes as many myths as Al Gore promotes.
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January 6, 2009
| William Yeatman, Cooler Heads Digest
In Sunday’s Washington Post, James R Lee suggests that rising temperatures will lead to a U.S.-Canada conflict over newly exploitable natural resources. That’s a preposterous prediction if there ever was one.
January 5, 2009
| William Yeatman, Cooler Heads Digest
On yesterday’s Chris Matthews Show, Joe Klein of Time reported that there is a foreign policy angle to President-elect Barack Obama’s selection of Dr. Steven Chu as the Department of Energy chief. Klein claimed that Chu, a Nobel Prize winner, is revered in China, and his superstar status could help in climate change negotiations with the Chinese.
January 2, 2009
| Cooler Heads Digest
CEI Adjunct Scholar Steven Milloy just sent around an email reporting that Carol Browner, President-elect Barack Obama’s new energy czar, is a member of the Socialist International, perhaps the world’s preeminent socialist organization.
January 2, 2009
| William Yeatman, Cooler Heads Digest
Perhaps they took credit for the decline in energy use as a result of the economic downturn. Of course, that would be misleading. Then again, fake facts are the only way to defend the claim that we can all get rich by fighting climate change.
January 2, 2009
| Julie Walsh, Cooler Heads Digest
Talking about the “millions” of jobs that would be created and forgetting to mention the many more millions that would be destroyed truly takes the cake.
January 2, 2009
| Myron Ebell, Cooler Heads Digest
I commented in the last issue (19th December) on President-elect Barack Obama’s choices of John P. Holdren for White House science adviser and Jane Lubchenco for administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. I would like to say a bit more about the bizarre choice of Dr. Holdren.
December 31, 2008
| Cooler Heads Digest
The Cooler Heads Digest has already reported how the United Kingdom’s huge gamble on wind power will raise electricity prices and undermine reliability (here and here). Unfortunately for energy consumers in that country, it looks like it’s going to take a lot more windmills than the government thought. Experts had calculated that 50,000 wind turbines would be needed to generate 15% of Britain's electricity, to help the government to meet the EU target for a 20% reduction of CO2 emissions by 2020. But the Sunday Telegraph reports that it will take 100,000 turbines to meet the country’s climate goals, because wind power lobbyists in the UK grossly overestimated the benefits of wind power. The British Wind Energy Association had previously estimated that electricity from wind turbines ‘displaces’ 860 grams of carbon dioxide emissions for every kilowatt hour of electricity generated. Now it has revised that figure to 430 grams following discussions with the Advertising Standards Authority.
December 31, 2008
| Myron Ebell, Cooler Heads Digest
The Obama transition team continues to talk to House and Senate Democratic leaders about trying to move a big ($850 billion?) economic stimulus package soon after the new Congress is sworn in. Every special interest in the country is trying to stake a claim to a share of the cash, including promoters of “green jobs” and those that claim that transforming the energy economy to rely on much more costly forms of renewable energy would somehow stimulate the economy. As the Washington Post noted this week, our energy and environmental policy is now in the hands of powerful legislators from California, where they actually believe that raising consumer and producer costs and pricing people out of jobs is sound public policy. (And where the State, perhaps co-incidentally, now confronts a $40 billion budget deficit.) We shall see what happens next week.
December 29, 2008
| Cooler Heads Digest
Dr. Roy Spencer has a new climate blog, http://www.DrRoySpencer.com. In an age of alarmism, Dr. Spencer's new blog is an invaluable resource for cooler heads.
