Christopher Monckton, the prominent British climate change skeptic who made the news last week when he compared climate protesters in Copenhagen to "Hitler Youth," advocated the creation of internment camps for HIV-positive people in an article published two decades ago.
An article that Monckton penned for the American Spectator in 1987, [...]
The climate change conference seems to be full of political fig leafs
As someone who has read as much of the coverage of the UN climate change conference as I can stand, I come away with a feeling that nuclear energy will get little positive attention [...]
The Copenhagen climate change summit is likely to end with two rival texts because the main countries cannot agree on the key question of how to share the burden of cutting emissions to a safe level. [...]
Senate Republicans write to U.N. secretary-general
WASHINGTON - At a critical time, the uproar over stolen e-mails suggesting scientists suppressed contrary views about climate change has emboldened skeptics including congressional Republicans looking to scuttle President Barack Obama's push for mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases. [...]
Some people still question whether Earth's climate is changing as rapidly and profoundly as the majority of climate scientists suggest. But, what if the complexity of the Earth's climate were distilled down to one number, in the same way that the Dow Jones Index condenses volumes of data into a [...]
Want to take a trip down the environmental rabbit hole? Spark a discussion about climate change and watch human warming reach extremes far greater than any place on the globe.
To the right you have the laughable stance adopted by the conservative movement that humans are having no effect on climate [...]
Faced with water shortages, growing populations and the threat that climate change could make matters worse, governments around the globe have increasingly turned to cloud seeding in an attempt to wring more rain and snow from the sky.
But the efforts are threatened by budget cuts in states struggling to [...]
A bipartisan trio of Senators presented a framework on climate change. The framework is focused on energy security and job creation and is admirably broad based in its energy approach. Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) aim to create legislation [...]
Many of the issues discussed on this bandwidth are large, long term, and threatening. Consider the three primary society-wide topics of analysis and discourse: climate, energy and the economy. It is my belief these 3 are linked by an underlying cultural growth/debt imperative running into a planet with finite sources [...]
RUF Automobile GmbH unveiled the Stormster, an electric SUV based on the Porsche Cayenne, for the European Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, (COP 15). The Stormster is driven by a Siemens electric motor, with 270 kW (367 bhp) as in the eRUF sports car. The lithium-ion battery pack is [...]
Green is gone and gas is good, according to early word trickling out of Deloitte LLPs oil and gas conference in The Woodlands on Wednesday.
A survey of 200 oil and gas professionals conducted in early November and released this week shows that most industry insiders expect climate change legislation to [...]
But as drought and demand for water intensify; heat waves become more severe; downpours more [...]
SWAN REACH, AUSTRALIA -- Before climate change strangled his lemon trees, Hermann Markovsky would drift off to sleep to the murmur of black swans in a lagoon beside his citrus farm.
The lagoon has dried up and [...]
With concrete steps towards a globally-supported climate change initiative finally materializing, many investors have been considering the addition of a green energy ETF to their portfolios, speculating that mandates to reduce emissions will funnel investment dollars towards alternative energy technologies. Wind and solar power ETFs have seen significant cash inflows [...]
by Tom Whipple
1. Prices and Production
2. The Natural Gas Bubble
3. Climate Change
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The Briefs [...]
As I have said before it really does not matter to me if this passes or not. Either way it can be traded to my advantage. I will expound on this theme on tomorrow's radio show.
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A much-anticipated global meeting of nearly 200 nations — all seeking what has so far been elusive common ground on the issue of climate change — began [in Copenhagen] on Monday with an impassioned airing of what leaders here called the political [...]
AMSTERDAM -- With the Copenhagen summit starting Monday, chances remain uncertain for a historic breakthrough in the fight to prevent climate change, but the Netherlands is leading a fight of a different kind: How to live with global warming.
As [...]
Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has organized a “Driving the Future” showcase during the COP 15 climate conference that begins today. Attendees needing a ride to the center of Copenhagen or journalist wanting to visit Danish cleantech solutions are free to use the COP15 showcase vehicles. One of those [...]
Coal-dependent China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, last month said it would cut [...]
Coal-dependent China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, last month said [...]

Environmentalists once again prove no match for polished naysayers
by Erik Blachford
Early last week, while in Toronto, I happened into a ticket to one of the Munk Debates . This series, sponsored by Canadian businessman Peter Munk and organized by a local Toronto thinker, Rudyard Griffiths, [...]