You can guess what would happen if you used the same tactics that climate alarmists employ Suppose you’ve been using some creative data, accounting and legal interpretations for years to reduce your tax bill – and the IRS suddenly flags you for a full-blown audit. Instead of trembling in your boots, shredding your records, calling…
Government Circus, Jeff Foxworthy
A Country Founded by Geniuses but Run by Idiots
If plastic water bottles are okay, but plastic bags are banned, — you might live in a nation (state) that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots. If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for entering and remaining in the country illegally — you might live…
General
Ice Age limits, sea level changes since the last ice age
There is nothing new or surprising about a rising sea level. Sea level has been rising for around 15,000 years, since the end of the last Ice Age. It will continue rising, at something like the present pace, until the next Ice Age. There was a time when sea level was rising by six or…
Paul Driessen
More outrages and insanities in Paris
If alarmists get what they want at the climate gabfest, the consequences will be disastrousThe Senate will not approve or appropriate money for anything President Obama might agree to in Paris, and developing countries will not (and should not) stop building coal-fired power plants and using fossil fuels to lift billions out of abject poverty.…
Marita Noon
Hope for our water woes found in fracking technologies
For years, water, or, more accurately, its scarcity, has been predicted to be the next doomsday scenario. In 1994, the American Philosophical Society published a book bearing the title: I Is water our next crisis? In 2007, NBC featured: Crisis feared as U.S. water supplies dry up. More recently, in 2011, NPR did a story…
David Legates
Reducing CO2 Emissions as a Precaution against Possible ‘Climate Change’ is All Pain, No Gain
Originally published in The Stream. The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris is about to begin, so climate change alarmists will again be trumpeting Principle #15 of the 1992 Rio Declaration, also known as the Precautionary Principle: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according…