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Occupation: I am retired but involved in several businesses.
Expertise: I know a lot about "global warming" and energy
Affiliations: American Meteorological Society American Geophysical Society Republican Party
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Norman reviewed this story - Jul 12, 2011
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1.0

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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Norman posted this story - May 1, 2011
Norman reviewed this story - Feb 7, 2011
Norman's Rating
1.5

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.

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Norman commented on this review – Feb. 7, 2011
Norman Rogers
1.5
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Reviewed by Norman Rogers - Feb. 7, 2011

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.

Norman Rogers Comment:

Like the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and wealthy hollywood stars.

Norman reviewed this story - Feb 6, 2011
Norman's Rating
1.0

This is not journalism at all. It's a tired and silly marxist analysis of the Reagan administration. Why bother?

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Norman commented on this review – Feb. 3, 2011
Cynthia Allen
2.0
(NT Rating: 3.1)
Reviewed by Cynthia Allen - Feb. 2, 2011

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!

Norman Rogers Comment:

Good, Cynthia. You actually know something.

Norman commented on this review – Feb. 3, 2011
Dwight Rousu
4.0
(NT Rating: 3.1)
Reviewed by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 2, 2011

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.

Norman Rogers Comment:

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 »

Norman commented on this review – Feb. 3, 2011
Khalilah Harris
3.6
(NT Rating: 3.1)
Reviewed by Khalilah Harris - Feb. 2, 2011

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."

Norman Rogers Comment:

Could it be that the editors of the WSJ are smarter and better informed than the people here?

Norman commented on this review – Feb. 3, 2011
Walter Cox
2.4
(NT Rating: 3.1)
Reviewed by Walter Cox - Feb. 2, 2011

"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.

Norman Rogers Comment:

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 »

Norman reviewed this story - Feb 3, 2011
Norman's Rating
1.0

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

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Norman reviewed this story - Oct 19, 2010
Norman's Rating
2.0

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jul 31, 2010
Norman's Rating
2.3

Does not discuss the legal issues. Probably Obama will wait until after the election to show is disregard for legal norms.

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Norman commented on this story – Jul. 30, 2010

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 »

Norman reviewed this story - Jul 14, 2010
Norman's Rating
2.3

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jul 14, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.0

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jul 11, 2010
Norman's Rating
2.0

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jul 6, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.3

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jul 6, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.0

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jul 1, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.7

I have seen so called truth from this outfit before and they are left biased rather than searchers for truth.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 30, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.5

The heavy sarcasm may play with dedicated leftists. To me it misses the mark.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 29, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.0

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 20, 2010
Norman's Rating
2.6

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 19, 2010
Norman's Rating
3.8

Well done illustration of the narrow mindedness of Obama although he claims to be open minded.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 18, 2010
Norman's Rating
2.4

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 17, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.4

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 17, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.9

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 17, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.9

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 17, 2010
Norman's Rating
2.1

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 16, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.0

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 13, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.0

Water is gaining ground in the on-going campaign to strangle the U.S. economy by means of environmental hysteria.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 10, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.9

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 7, 2010
Norman's Rating
2.1

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 6, 2010
Norman's Rating
4.0

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 6, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.9

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Jun 6, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.0

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Mar 28, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.9

Republicans are quicker to smell a rat than Democrats, or so it seems.

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Norman reviewed this story - Mar 28, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.0

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.

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Norman reviewed this story - Mar 28, 2010
Norman's Rating
1.4

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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Norman reviewed this story - Feb 27, 2010
Norman's Rating
3.9

George Will is one of the leaders in the media in recognizing that global warming is junk science.

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Norman reviewed this story - Feb 20, 2010
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1.0

This is leftist comedy.

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