Quote of the Week “Urgent and unprecedented environmental and social changes challenge scientists to define a new social contract … a commitment on the part of all scientists to devote their energies and talents to the most pressing problems of the day, in proportion to their importance, in exchange for public funding.” – Jane Lubchenco,…
Monthly Archives: July 2011
American Tradition Institute
ATI Law Center Asks Court to Force NASA to Produce Ethics and Outside Employment Records of Dr. James Hansen
American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit in federal district court in the District of Columbia to force the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to release ethics records for taxpayer-funded global warming activist Dr. James Hansen – specifically records that pertain to his outside employment, revenue generation, and advocacy activities. ATI seeks…
Heartland Institute
The Heartland Institute
This is the statement Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) sent to The Heartland Institute announcing his inability to deliver the opening keynote, as scheduled: To my friends attending the Heartland Climate Conference, I am sorry that I will not be able to join you today at the Heartland Institute’s sixth International Conference on Climate Change. Unfortunately,…
Craig Rucker, David Rothbard
The UN’s Climate of Desperation
Scandals, deceit, stable temperatures and real problems minimize global concern about climate By David Rothbard and Craig Rucker As the UN wrapped up its recent climate conference in Bonn, Germany, talks organizer Christiana Figueres proclaimed that climate change is the “the most important negotiation the world has ever faced.” Faced with real problems – financial…
Heartland Institute
Forecasting Expert Calls for End to Government Funded Research on Global Warming
By Diane Carol Bast -The Heartland Institute In testimony on March 31 before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Committee on Science, Space and Technology, forecasting expert J. Scott Armstrong of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania called on Congress to cease funding global warming research, programs, and advocacy organizations. Referring to an…
Diane Garaguso
Sack Lunches
By Diane Garaguso I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned seat. It was going to be a long flight. “I’m glad I have a good book to read. Perhaps I will get a short nap,” I thought. Just before take-off, a line of soldiers came down the aisle…