Source:  No Frakking Consensus

by Donna Laframboise

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, there are certain milestones that children aged 4 – 5 years can be expected to achieve. Among them:

• counting to 10
• correctly naming “at least four colors”
• speaking in sentences “of more than five words”
• using the “future tense”

In the world inhabited by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), however, a child’s fourth birthday is an opportunity to pay its own bills – to fundraise and then to brag about it. (more…)

Source:  No Frakking Consensus

David Suzuki — anti-science alarmist

by Donna Laframboise

According to Canada’s most prominent environmentalist, the mining of gold, silver, copper and other minerals poses an unacceptable risk to the planet’s atmosphere.

Yesterday I observed that although the public is told that wind energy is clean and green, industrial wind turbines are made of steel – which depends on the mining of iron ore (see here).

I quoted Andrea Jennetta, who points out that “pretty much everything we use in modern life – including every form of renewable energy you can think of – requires the extensive mining of raw materials from the earth.” (more…)

Source: No Frakking Consensus

by Donna Laframboise

Mining the iron ore needed to build wind farms entails ripping mountains and valleys “to shreds.”

Andrea Jennetta is the publisher of Fuel Cycle Week – a newsletter for nuclear industry insiders. A yearly subscription costs US $2,750.

She also writes the I Dig U[ranium] Mining blog. One of her recent posts is titled Wind Turbines and ‘Dirty’ Mines – Hypocrisy at its Finest. It is accompanied by a large photo of an iron ore mine with the words “This is where wind turbines come from” superimposed over it. You can see that photo here.

In her blog post, Jennetta says “anti-industrial activists” like to “show people how sausage is made” so that hopefully they’ll never eat the stuff again. And they’ll fight tooth-and-nail to block any sausage factory from ever being built anywhere near where they live. (more…)

Source: No Frakking Consenses

by Donna Laframboise

Confronted with what some believe is a house on fire, Canadian Members of Parliament retire to the shadows and whisper to each other in secret.

There’s a disturbing article in the weekend edition of Canada’s National Post. It’s titled Federal politicians use non-partisan climate group to meet in ‘safe space’ behind closed doors.

Apparently, our elected Members of Parliament (MPs) are on a par with sex abuse victims. They need a “safe space” to talk about what’s supposed to be the planet’s most pressing problem. Confronted with what some believe is a house on fire, they retire to the shadows and whisper to each other in secret. (more…)

Source: No Frakking Consensus

by Donna Laframboise

Why weren’t the profound limitations of an electric car the butt of a comedian’s jokes?

Rick Mercer is a Canadian comedian/satirist employed by the publicly-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Like his American colleague, Jon Stewart, he spends much of his time commenting on current affairs.

First and foremost, Mercer is an entertainer – a performer who wants to make us laugh. But once you notice that only certain kinds of people and ideas end up on the receiving end of the joke, his schtick gets a bit tiresome.

A friend recently sent me a link to a piece Mercer did on the made-in-Canada ZENN (zero emission, no noise) car. The video originally aired in 2007 and is less than six minutes long.

There’s no doubt it’s good for a chuckle, but it’s also outrageously misleading. Mercer suggests that Tory government ministers are perversely hostile to this revolutionary, allegedly non-polluting automobile. (more…)

Source: No Frakking Consensus  

by Donna Laframboise

According to 1960s radicals, the environmental movement has been funded and orchestrated by fossil fuel interests.

Yesterday, I discussed the language used to market a book published in 1970, just prior to the celebration of the first Earth Day on April 22 of that year.

Titled Eco-Catastrophe, it is a collection of articles/essays selected by the editors of Ramparts magazine – which was produced by 1960s-era radicals between 1962 and 1975.

One of its fascinating revelations is that those people thought Earth Day was a crock – and were highly suspicious of the fact that the mainstream, establishment media was eagerly promoting it.

An Editorial included near the front of the book is worth quoting at length: (more…)

Source:  Corbett Report

Donna Laframboise is the editor of a climate blog, NoFrakkingConsensus.com, and the author of a new book, The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert. She joins us today to discuss the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), how it functions, and who is really behind the production of its coveted Assessment Report, often referred to as the “Climate Bible.”

http://www.corbettreport.com/interview-434-donna-laframboise/

Source:  The Global Warming Policy Foundation

CCNet – 3 November 2011

The Climate Policy Network

 New Research Reveals IPCC In Bed With Green Lobbies

A scathing new expose on the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — which sets the world’s agenda when it comes to the current state of the climate — claims that its reports have often been written by graduate students with little or no experience in their field of study and whose efforts normally might be barely enough to satisfy grad school requirements. –Perry Chiaramonte, Fox News, 2 November 2011 (more…)

Source: No Frakking Consensus

photo from Chris D. Thomas' academic bio page

by Donna Laframboise

In early 2004 Nature, a respected science journal, ran a cover story titled Feeling the Heat: biodiversity losses due to global warming.  As one critic would laterobserve:

It is rare for a scientific paper to be the lead item on the evening news, or to fill the front pages of our national newspapers, but [that particular study]received exceptional worldwide media attention.

The lead author was named Chris D. Thomas. Now he’s back in the news – this time for a paper published in Science whose very own press release begins:

Many different species of plants and animals have been moving higher in elevation and farther away from the equator to escape the Earth’s warming climate.

Once more, the media is all over the story – and the headlines are nothing if not dramatic. The BBC declares that species are fleeing a warm climate faster than previously thought. Time magazine tells us that climate change is turning plants and animals into refugees. CNN asserts that animals are being driven to higher ground by warmth. (Lots more news stories may be seen here.) (more…)

Source:  No Frakking Consensus

by Donna Laframboise

October 9, 2010

I’ve been asked to combine two posts from earlier this week – regarding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s dubious species extinction claim – into a single document.  They have now, therefore, been transformed into a spiffy, 9-page PDF.

read/download it here:

http://TinyUrl.com/extinction-fiction

For more info on the topic of species extinction, see this excellent essay by Stephen Budiansky (hat tip to Bishop Hill).

Willis Eschenbach’s essay Where Are the Corpses? over at Watts Up With That is thought-provoking – as are Benny Peiser’s views on the fate of Easter Island.

A few more interesting links regarding the extinction issue are here, here, and here – thanks Tim.

Finally, this is a long weekend in Canada. Even though we celebrate Thanksgiving a month ahead of our American neighbours, our traditions are similar – gathering with family and friends to feast on roast turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, autumn vegetables, pumpkin pie, and more.

This is my favourite holiday of the entire year. Only a fool could fail to be thankful for this gorgeous planet, its myriad lifeforms, for the people to whom we are connected, and for our opportunities and experiences.

Source: UK Telegraph

by James Dilingpole

This column comes to you from sunny Rajasthan, India, where I have taken my family to look for leopards (and crocodiles and monkeys and black buck…).

As you can imagine taking the kids somewhere so exotic at half term is costing me an arm and a leg I can ill afford. But I want them to share with me the almost matchless pleasure of seeing big cats (or big anything else: sharks are good too; and bears; and elephants…) in their native habitat. Being amid unspoilt nature, whether it’s walking in the Welsh or Scottish hills or going on safari in Africa or India, is what makes me truly happy, and I’m sure this will rub off on my miserable, ungrateful, ‘urrggh it’s spicy we hate spicy food isn’t there a Pizza Hut round here?’ kids eventually too. (more…)

Source:  American Thinker

by Russell Cook

Warmist true believers bitterly cling their mantra that only the corrupting influence sinister money could possibly explain skepticism toward the theory they embrace as gospel truth.