NY Times IPCC Alibi Falls Flat

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  February 9th at 04:00 PM  | 

One and a half cheers to the NY Times for the article “Skeptics Find Fault With U.N. Climate Panel,” which admits to some of the scientific and ethical problems facing the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri. But the Times being the Times, while it lays out some of the damning facts, it omits key damaging details (especially regarding the | Read More »

Cap And Don’t Trade: Obama May Set Off Trade War With Climate Policy

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  March 9th at 12:42 PM  | 

As anyone who followed the Kyoto Protocols back in the 1990s can tell you, even if you believe that government action to stem carbon emissions would be desirable, Kyoto wasn’t a genuine effort to get a worldwide agreement on limiting emissions: it exempted seven of the world’s eight most populous nations (the U.S. being the lone exception) from its provisions, including rapidly growing economies like | Read More »