It’s easy to forget that in the 1970s, climatologists were foretelling the coming of a new ice age.  We’re supposed to forget about that because now the “consensus” is that we’re causing our own warming spell. But not according to Dr. Oleg Sorokhtin, a research scientist for the Oceanology Institute in Russia.  Dr. Sorokhtin points out that climate [...]

The majority of global warming research is funded by government grants. These government grants provide excellent job security for researchers. And since they come from the government, an entity not subject to the natural forces of the private sector, results are not particularly important. Global warming scare mongering gives government agents (politicians and bureaucrats) another [...]

John Stossel exposes The Many Myths of Ethanol: When everyone in politics jumps on a bandwagon like ethanol, I start to wonder if there’s something wrong with it. And there is. Except for that fact that ethanol comes from corn, nothing you’re told about it is true. As the Cato Institute’s energy expert Jerry Taylor [...]

On Global Hot Air: Why So Gloomy? “Recently many people have said that the earth is facing a crisis requiring urgent action. This statement has nothing to do with science. There is no compelling evidence that the warming trend we’ve seen will amount to anything close to catastrophe. What most commentators—and many scientists—seem to miss [...]