Climate & Climate Change

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?

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?