Tag Archives: global warming

A massive iceberg approaches the shore of Newfoundland.

And he takes the Fox News host to school along the way.

It’s mid-June and I’m blogging in a sweater.

Al Gore notes on his blog: “The National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that Arctic sea ice probably reached its maximum extent for the year on March 7, which was 5.65 million square miles.

“The maximum extent was 1.2 million square kilometers (463,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average of 15.86 million square kilometers (6.12 million square miles), …

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is now chaired and dominated by Republicans funded by the oil industry Koch Brothers, is working to abolish EPA rules designed to reduce climate change. (More billions for the Kochs!) Despite daylong expert scientific testimony, GOP committee members repeatedly denounced the evidence and declared that Democrats want to destroy the nation’s energy supply. …

Newly elected Tea Party-backed Montana GOP state Rep. Joe Read has introduced a bill declaring that global warming is not only natural, it benefits the economy of his state. From Montana House Bill 429: The legislature finds that to ensure economic development in Montana and the appropriate management of Montana’s natural resources it is necessary to adopt a public policy …

NASA published the above satellite photo of this week’s massive storm over North America as another huge system over Australia is being called the worst cyclone in that country’s recorded history. Meanwhile the wingnuts are chortling all over Twitter as to how this winter’s U.S. storms are “the final nail in the coffin of global warming.” Science, they don’t has …

Gothamist notes that a whole lot of weather records were broken in NYC last year. We had two of the five worst blizzards in city history, saw the warmest spring and hottest summer ever, and even got slammed by a couple of tornadoes. What climate change?

And this guy wants to be the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. How terrifying is that?

Clerics of an unnamed Christian denomination informed attendees at a University of the South Pacific conference on climate change in Samoa that homosexuals are responsible for global warming. Academics were apparently thrown off their consideration of “Arts in the Age of Global Warming” and “Ecology in Poetry / Poetry in Ecology” by reports of Church Ministers who maintained that climate …

Methane worries, it’s not just about cows anymore. Huge quantities of methane below the Arctic seabed are showing signs of destabilising, according to research conducted in the East Siberian Sea. Scientists aboard Russian icebreakers have discovered that methane is leaking from the sub-sea permafrost far faster than had been previously estimated, raising concerns that climatic tipping points may have been …

“With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore. Gore wants us to clean up our factories and plants in order to protect us from global warming, when China and other countries couldn’t care less. It would make us totally noncompetitive …

Rachel Maddow responds in typically hilarious fashion.

According to the Pakistan Daily, the brutal winter being experienced across North America and Europe has been caused not by global warming or just bad luck, but by a “high-energy beam fired into the upper heavens from the United States High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) radar facility in Ramfjordmoen, Norway” which has resulted in the “unimpeded thermal inversion …

Months after he infuriated loyal customers by saying that no American has an inherent right to health care, Whole Food CEO John Mackey is back in the news, this time for claiming that global warming is a hoax. The New Yorker profiled Mackey and asked him for some of his favorite books. One of the books on the list was …

“I’ve always believed that policy should be based on sound science, not politics. As governor of Alaska, I took a stand against politicized science when I sued the federal government over its decision to list the polar bear as an endangered species despite the fact that the polar bear population had more than doubled. I got clobbered for my actions …

UK-based environmentalists Plane Stupid are objecting to plans to expand airports and add flights over Europe. This gruesome ad is how they try to make their point about jet emissions. You may not want to watch this.