Julie Walsh

John Christy of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (co-recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize) responds to questions by CNN anchor Miles O'Brien.

Columnist Paul Simon at the London Times is blaming global warming for the fires in Southern California.

It's time for a radical rethink on climate change, says a report in the journal "Nature" this week. Echoing sentiments long associated with politicians such as Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President George Bush, the report says it is time to ditch the Kyoto Protocol because the United Nations treaty has "failed."

In a study published in the American Geophysical Union's "Geophysical Research Letters" on August 9th, researchers at the University of Alabama-Huntsville provide more real-world evidence of the self-regulating nature of the Earth's atmosphere.

Never underestimate the value of hypocrisy, which makes the world go around and the lives of social animals livable. But there's hypocrisy and hypocrisy. Herewith, a defense of Toyota and a slam of the ethanol lobby.

World Wildlife Fund has praised Sony, Nike, and French cement maker Lafarge for demonstrating that business can make "reasonable and meaningful" changes to stem global warming.  Carbon emissions from all three companies have been rising, though. Interestingly enough,  Lararge is also paying the WWF about $6 million over three years to help fund environmental programs–not win the environmental group's support, the company says.

In “Housing Construction Plunges” (Examiner, October 18, 2007), the author, Martin Crutsinger, correctly identifies the reasons for the current problems in the ever-important housing industry: “Consumer prices, meanwhile, rose at the fastest pace in four months, reflecting higher energy and food costs.” He backs this up with the fact that “the Labor Department reported that consumer prices rose by 0.3 percent in September, slightly more that the 0.2 percent that analysts had been expecting as energy prices rose after three straight declines and food costs shot up at the fastest pace since June. Core inflation, excluding energy and food, remained tame, however rising by 0.2 percent.”

This current Congress’s short-sighted ethanol and energy-restricting policies will not only lead to these recessionary pressures, but will work to increase greenhouse gases, as thriving companies are the ones who have the luxury to invest in expensive energy efficient measures.

One of the leading sources of anti-Americanism relates to America's supposed arrogance in failing to sign or ratify international treaties that the rest of the world endorses. This particular complaint arises from a failure to understand the role of treaties in the US Constitution and is not confined to the left.