Cooler Heads Digest 5 March 2010

by William Yeatman
March 05, 2010 @ 11:42 am

In the News

The New York Times Strikes Back
Myron Ebell, Fox Forum, 5 March 2010

Bullies Waxman & Markey Promote “Endangerment” of Economy, Democracy
Marlo Lewis, BigGovernment.com, 5 March 2010

Carbon Caps through the Backdoor
Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal, 5 March 2010

Joe Romm, Where Art Thou?
Michael Lynch, MasterResource.org, 5 March 2010

Green Jobs Fantasy
Iain Murray, National Review Online, 4 March 2010

Democratic Senators Move To Stop Wind Subsidies in Stimulus
Dan Eggen, Washington Post, 4 March 2010

“Anti-Lobbyist” Obama Administration Recruits “Green” Lobbyists To Sell Subsidies
Chris Horner,…

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Cooler Heads Digest 26 February 2010

by William Yeatman
February 26, 2010 @ 11:31 am

Announcements

The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) this week released a paper by Dr. Edward Long, “Contiguous U. S. Temperature Trends Using NCDC Raw and Adjusted Data for One-Per-State Rural/Urban,” examining the surface temperature data adjustments by U.S. Government-funded scientists.

In the News

U.S. Climate Data Compromised
Joseph Abrams, FoxNews.com, 26 February 2010

British Blogger Finds Errors in Met Temperature Record
Paola Totaro, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 February 2010

Easy, Cheap Green Energy? Just the Reverse!
Kenneth Green, MasterResource.org, 26 February 2010

Push to Oversimplify on…

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Cooler Heads Digest 19 February 2010

by William Yeatman
February 19, 2010 @ 11:37 am

Announcements

Tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. EST, CEI’s Myron Ebell and Christopher Horner address the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on “Saving Freedom from the Hoax of Global Warming.” Also featured on the panel are Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com and Ann McElhinney, producer of the documentary, Not Evil Just Wrong: The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria. Watch it live on Townhall.com/cpac.

CEI this week released the first ever music video in the skeptic rock genre. Watch “How I Wasn’t Gored into Submission,”…

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Cooler Heads Digest 12 February 2010

by William Yeatman
February 12, 2010 @ 12:46 pm

In the News

Blizzards Warm-up Climate Debate
Casey Curlin, Washington Times, 12 February 2010

Harvard Hometown Plans Draconian Climate Regime
Joshua Miller, FoxNews, 12 February 2010

Climategate Panel Needs an Overhaul
Benny Peiser & David Whitehouse, GWPF, 12 February 2010

IPCC’s Errors Were Deliberate?
Richard North, EU Referendum, 12 February 2010

The Carbon-Trading Shell Game
Mark Shapiro, Harpers, February 2010

Why the EPA Is Wrong about Recent Warming
Chip Knappenberger, MasterResource.org, 11 February 2010

A Blizzard of Hype
Patrick Michaels, Planet Gore, 11 February 2010

Shoddy Climate Research
Detroit News editorial, 10 February 2010

The Global Warming…

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Cooler Heads Digest 4 February 2010

by William Yeatman
February 04, 2010 @ 12:51 pm

In the News

Barton, Walden Ask EPA to Explain Reliance on Dubious Reports
House Energy and Commerce Committee Press Release, 4 February 2020

Putting the Ass in Assassin
Chris Horner, Planet Gore, 4 February 2010

Gov’t Report: UK Faces Power Outages
David Strahan, Telegraph, 4 February 2010

The Left Can Also Disown Cap-and-Trade
Robert Bradley, Jr., MasterResource.org, 3 February 2010

Hackers Steal Millions in Carbon Credits
Kim Zetter, Wired, 3 February 2010

The Global Warming Guerrillas
Matt Ridley, The Spectator, 3 February 2010

How Climate Change Fanatics Corrupted Science
Michael Barone, Washington Examiner,…

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Climategate Update

by William Yeatman
February 02, 2010 @ 2:49 pm

Last week the United Kingdom Information Commissioner’s Office-the body that administers the Freedom of Information Act-said the University of East Anglia had flouted the rules in its handling of an FOI request by British amateur climate analyst Doug Kennan.

Today the Guardian reported how Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, withheld information requested under freedom of information laws.

The CRU scientist’s wrongdoing and cover-up were only revealed after thousands of University of East Anglia emails were…

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Cooler Heads Digest 29 January 2010

by William Yeatman
January 29, 2010 @ 12:54 pm

In the News

Obama’s Energy Muddle
Marlo Lewis, National Journal, 29 January 2010

The Scientific “Consensus”
Chip Knappenberger, MasterResource.org, 29 January 2010

Mandated Carbon Cuts Won’t Work
Bjorn Lomborg, Wall Street Journal, 29 January 2010

Insecurity and Change Commission
Wall Street Journal editorial, 29 January 2010

The Real Climate Confusion
Iain Murray, National Review Online, 28 January 2010

EPA Should Ground Carbon Regs for Good
Washington Examiner editorial, 28 January 2010

IPCC Newest Headache: Amazongate
Gene Koprowski, Fox News, 28 January 2010

EPA at Center of Coal Controversy
David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post, 27 January 2010

Floating Islands
Willis…

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Is It Bad To Root for the Evil Corporation in Avatar?

by William Yeatman
January 27, 2010 @ 1:38 pm

If so, then I’m bad to the bone, because my favorite scene in the James Cameron mega-hit was the one where the jarhead mercenary blasted the blue peoples’ home tree to smithereens. TIIIIIIIMBEEEER!!!!!!! Gotta get me some of that unobtainium!

I am kidding-I don’t actually condone the destruction of an alien civilization for the sake of extracting a rare, valuable mineral*, although I did love the scene in question. Rather, my intent is to make light of Cameron’s clichéd eco-plotline, which…

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