Climate & Climate Change

In the great, never-cooling debate over the causes and consequences of global warming, it's always clear whose side Fred Singer is on: not Al Gore's. Singer, who was born in Vienna in 1924, was a pioneer in the development of rocket and satellite … [Read more...] about Singer to Debate Global Warming with Keller: Calls AIT ‘Bunk’ and ‘Sloppy’

MONDAY'S tax cut announcement by the Coalition means the election campaign is off to a good start. Economic policy has been moved to the top of the political agenda, as it should be. At the end of the first Kyoto commitment period in 2012, New … [Read more...] about Australia and Kyoto

A Russian scientist claims global warming can be just a temporary inconvenience, since climatic changes show their natural fluctuating patterns and depend on our Sun’s activity level. A Research fellow of the Arctic and Antarctic research and science … [Read more...] about Russian Scientist: What Does Arctic Climate Tell Us?

Listening to the Speech from the Throne Tuesday, one could be forgiven for thinking that the Conservatives were copying Stephane Dion’s leadership campaign tactics of 13 months ago. In Dion’s case, he took his climate change phraseology essentially … [Read more...] about Listen to Scientists, Not Activists

Washington Post Blog: Last Friday, shortly after Vice President Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming, we posted an item on a recently concluded court case in Britain that questioned some of the facts in his movie, An … [Read more...] about Team Gore Responds to UK AIT Judgment

Science is the pursuit of the truth, not consensus John Kay, Financial Times, 9 October 2007 The notion of a monolithic "science", meaning what scientists say, is pernicious and the notion of "scientific consensus" actively so. The route to … [Read more...] about Science is Not Agreement on a Course of Action, but the Pursuit of Truth.