Archives for October 2007

Thanks to Willis Eschenbach for the amusing spoof 'reconstructed' photo of Michael Mann. No doubt many blog readers will be familiar with the infamous 'Hockey Stick' graph, which used 'proxy' reconstructed temperature data up to 1980, grafted onto … [Read more...] about A Man’s Got To Do What Mann Won’t Do

More Global Goreing I'm afraid: Rethink Pink - The marketing to Women Portal … [Read more...] about Turning Pink into Green

A spokesman for Al Gore has issued a questionable response to the news that in October 2007 the High Court in London had identified nine “errors” in his movie An Inconvenient Truth. The judge had stated that, if the UK Government had not agreed to … [Read more...] about A Response to Team Gore: 35 Inconvenient Truths

Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, explains that more polar bears can be saved and deaths reduced from malaria through targeted direct interventions rather than initiatives under the Kyoto Protocol. Largely accepting the IPCC … [Read more...] about How to Save Polar Bears, and Children from Malaria: Bjorn Lomborg

The ABC host introduced his regular "Give Me a Break" segment: "You've heard the reports. The globe is warming. And it's our fault. And the consequences will be terrible. But you should know there is another side to this story. And scientists who've … [Read more...] about ABC’s “20/20” – Stossel: “Give Me a Break”

All advertising for new cars will have to carry cigarette-style “health warnings” about their environmental impact, under a European plan to force manufacturers to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Companies that produce the most polluting cars will … [Read more...] about Is Motoring the New Smoking?