The only problem with this story is that there hasn't been any significent climate change in the last 15 years and very little in the last 100 years. In other words this is a silly scare story.
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Of course the conspiracy tone of this article is only applied to conservatives. The massive, massive and dominant influence of the left in financing liberal organizations is just fine.
This is not journalism at all. It's a tired and silly marxist analysis of the Reagan administration. Why bother?
This is terrible journalism. The author doesn't know what he's talking about and proves it by making up his own criteria to analyze multi op-ed articles he fails to specifically cite. We have no idea what he's referencing!We are to take his word for it? Finally he quotes Professor Mandia who has been in the back pocket of the IPCC since the beginning of the global warming premise which has been proven to be bogus. Give me a break!
Good, Cynthia. You actually know something.
On political questions of opinion, there can be some argument for bias from a news outlet that is known for bias in favor of big corporations and the rich. On questions of science, there is much more question when a news outlet shows clear bias in favor of a very minority position among qualified scientists. Especially when that bias goes to a basic conflict between the survival of our whole earth ecosystem vs. the short term economic interests of the rich and their polluting corporations. You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
A little circular reasoning here if qualified scientists are those who agree with the “consensus.” The official climate scientists usually agree in public because they would lose their grants otherwise or experience other problems with colleagues who don’t like them ... More »
This was an interesting/unexpected subject to report on. I like the contrast between the status/reputation of Wall Street Journal and the platform it is giving to so many people to provide false information to its readers. I would have liked to see more information about how information was gathered, and/or what constituted "scientific consensus."
Could it be that the editors of the WSJ are smarter and better informed than the people here?
"97% of climate science experts and every international scientific organization endorses the conclusion that human activities are primarily responsible for modern global warming. An honest newspaper should reflect that consensus." DEFIANTLY NO!!! An honest newspaper has no obligation to "reflect" any consensus. On the contrary, honest newspapers share the obligation to present alternate views that may be at odds with a particular consensus.
The scientific consensus is among those who are dependent on grants from the global warming establishment. A very large percentage of scientists outside of this group are skeptics. Even the people in the group are skeptical when queried in anonymous polls. For example only 1/3 of ... More »
This pretending to be scientific story is just the author's opinion. The WSJ does not believe in global warming alarmism so not surprisingly their editorial viewpoint disagrees with global warming alarmism, characterized as the scientific consensus by the author. There is no scientific consensus and the evidence for global warming alarmism is very slender indeed. www.climateviews.com
How wonderful. The sophisticates convert the country bumkins. Sounds like advice in a missionary magazine on how to do conversions. Oh, the NYT is a missionary magazine. I forgot. The so-called clean energy makes no sense economically or any other way.
Does not discuss the legal issues. Probably Obama will wait until after the election to show is disregard for legal norms.
The Obama administration is a steamroller with no regard for legal norms or the rule of law. They push it as far as they think they can get away with. The 6 month moratorium on deep drilling supplemented by dragging their feet on issuing permits is another example. The sooner we get ... More »
The AP studies petroleum engineering. Generally when wells are abandoned it is because there is no more oil to be had. They neglect to produce any example of a well actually leaking. Environmentalism is the process of making mountains out of molehills. They seem to be working toward that. Let's have more ineffective government regulators. Oil companies do have a rather big incentive not to put oil into the ocean.
More of the usual BS. The heat wave scare is a very worn part of the global warming alarmism litany. The neatest way of demolishing this is to point out, as Bjorn Lomborg has, that cold waves kill far more people than heat waves. So, global warming should reduce temperature related deaths.
I've noticed that liberals continue to have great faith in government programs in spite of repeated failure. Same for believers in global warming. No mater that its not warming, they believe. It's easy to pick questions to try to make the right look bad. I could do the same with the left. It's like ripley's believer it or not.
Journalists generally can't handle basic physics or anything technical. A much better explanation of relief wells is here: drillingahead.com/forum/topics/bp-relief-wellswhat-is-a -From the NYT down they spread confusion because they either don't bother or can't understand the technical stuff.
The NYT totally misses the point and assumes that everything belongs to the government and anything not taxed is a subsidy. There are real subsidies in the solar and wind industry - totally huge. If we followed NYT stupid tax policy the entire industry would move elsewhere and we would be at the mercy of foreign oil sheiks and fascist states like Russia and Venezuela. Of course what is really the point is that the NYT is a true believer in global warming and wants to destroy the fossil fuel industry so that we can live in some green darkness.
I have seen so called truth from this outfit before and they are left biased rather than searchers for truth.
The communist point of view. Why bother submitting this extreme fringe stuff. Better to review the delusional ravings of disturbed people or people high on drugs. Pravda means "truth" in Russian but it is full of lies.This rag is called Democracy Now. But democracy is the very last thing they desire.
Sooner or later even the New York Times wakes up to the idiocy of various green schemes. All the sustainable green schemes are ill founded - wind, solar, ethanol, etc.
Instead of dancing around the real point the author should just say that Obama is in way over his head and only knows how to campaign - spin - not actually take charge of something real.
Magic. Just spend more on "research" and wonderful things will follow. A good example of simplistic thinking. Research what? Be precise. Dumping more money into the academic sinkhole may well make things worse. It depends.
Of course the fragmented situation partly reflects ill considered government regulations designed to protect uneconomic special interest groups like the American maritime unions. Government regulation is therefor unlikely to improve the situation, assuming that it is broken. Naturally companies try to carry on their activity under friendly tax regimes. Forcing them to operate under the U.S. regime will make everything cost more or cause them to simply move the oil rigs to Africa or some other place.
If you like the UN's take on global warming you'll love this one. Real food prices have been cut in half since 1929 due to vastly increased productivity. Now the UN claims everything has changed. Everything the UN says is political and is generally a lie dressed up in scientific jargon.
The headline is completely wrong. Fusion is not even slightly promising. It is a sinkhole for vast amounts of spending. Meanwhile technologies that actually work, like nuclear fission, are starved for attention.
The wacko left will only be satisfied when all the Jews in Israel have been killed or deported. The only people who consider the peace flotilla anything other than anti-Israeli propaganda are gullible liberal housewives.
Water is gaining ground in the on-going campaign to strangle the U.S. economy by means of environmental hysteria.
The real story is totally missed. The real story is the psychology of the delusional thinking that makes anyone think that solar energy makes any sense. The comical idea is that the Europeans should invest in a highly uneconomic source of energy under the control of Islamic countries. It fits in with the delusion that the European countries are not broke.
The big city has a thousand sad stories. Amazingly most of these people survive in spite of the negative cast of this article. Guess what, life is not a rose garden.
Another chapter in the sad story of black crime and black governance. The places with large black populations that are livable are places where criminals are dealt with ruthlessly. Outside of the south black dominated governments fail uniformly.
Unfortunately the author shows technical ignorance. First nobody used rheostat dimmers except in specialized applications like stage lighting. An alternative, a variable voltage transformer is efficient and does not get so hot. Second dimming incandescent lights lowers their efficiency and changes the color of the light toward yellow. It is not an energy conserving process. Better to turn off some fraction of the lights rather than use an energy wasting dimmer. If there were technically educated people in the media we would have far less technical nonsense.
I'm surprised that the comrades in arms at the Guardian aren't on the boats. The story is representative of the wave of anti semitism that infects the left intelligentsia in Europe.
China invested in this stuff to sell it to others, either exporting equipment or exporting carbon credits. Now with the collapse of the markets they are in trouble. China is not interested in any green except money. Article gives false impression that China buys into green mythology.
Silly stuff. American education, especially K-12 is a disaster so now companies are supposed to make up the the failings of public education which costs the taxpayers a fortune?







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Of course the conspiracy tone of this article is only applied to conservatives. The massive, massive and dominant influence of the left in financing liberal organizations is just fine.
Like the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and wealthy hollywood stars.