For example: … It’s hard to imagine just how much corn is required to make a usable amount of ethanol. Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute has a great quote that sums it up: “The grain required to fill a 25-gallon SUV gas tank with ethanol will feed one person for a year.â€� A year ...

BMI's Dan Gainor has a great column on the Fox Forum about the silence around "global cooling." This is the winter of environmentalists’ discontent. They desperately want the earth to be warming to prove Al Gore’s truth inviolate and they are going to make you pay thousands of dollars ...

Newsweek says so, as the global downturn is doing what activists couldn’t - closing dirty factories. Via The Atlantic. It is no coincidence that some of the dirtiest industrial operations are falling victim to the global recession. Over the past two decades, much of the world’s manufactu...

The BBC says a team of researchers is reporting that sea levels may rise far higher than forecast because of changes in the polar ice-sheets. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted sea levels would rise 7 to 23 inches by the end of the century, notes the AP. But scientists at a...

From the National Geographic : One day in 1963, when Jim Boucher was seven, he was out working the trap­line with his grandfather a few miles south of the Fort McKay First Nation reserve on the Athabasca River in northern Alberta. The country there is wet, rolling fen, dotted with lakes, dissected ...

Not to let himself be outdone by his skeptic colleague in good standing, George Will, The Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby has penned an equally vacuous and misinformed column posing the thought-provoking question: “Where’s global warming?” It’s hard to know where to start. F...

George Will has in an interview in the Chicago Tribune where he repeats the whoppers from his column: A: The critics completely ignored -- as again, understandably -- the evidence I gave of the global cooling hysteria of 30 years ago. Q: They like to pretend that there really wasn't any hysteria bac...

Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : A Heated Exchange: Al Gore Confronts His Critic(s) But he was challenged by Mr. Lomborg, the Danish skeptical environmentalist who thinks the world would be better off spending more money on health and education issues than curbing carbon emissions. “I don’t mea...

Some of you watch "professional" poker, I know, and some of those guys are ridiculous. OK: all of those guys are ridiculous, but some of them have a really solid poker face -- but many of them have a pathetic "tell". You can tell when they're bluffing. Turns out the Global Warming saints have a terr...

Saul Griffith led off Greener Gadgets 2009 with one of the best 40 minute explanations of why (to use his words) we're all a bunch of "planet fuckers" and what we can do to change that in terms of our energy ......