The Oracle at EI
Climate change computer models aren't much better than ancient oracles
by Paul Driessen
In ancient times, priestesses at the Oracle at Delphi often answered important political questions with enigmatic predictions derived from dreams, signs, casting lots or reading animal entrails. Today, in the realm of climate change, that function is served by scientific priests and priestesses who offer forecasts of dubious value, derived from computer models.
Why Europe Needs a New Environmentalism
by Holger J. Thuss
Old Environmentalism.
The political mainstream in Europe right now looks very green. A majority among the Europeans opposes nuclear energy, oil, any other fossil energy source, and supports subsidizing so-called alternative energy sources such as wind, solar etc. Most of the Europeans are very concerned about food safety and seem to be in favor of the Kyoto protocol respectively, an international treaty that is supposed to decrease the emission of greenhouse gases on a global scale. And there is no doubt - traditional environmentalism achieved a lot...
The new global warming lawsuit industry
Eco-activists add more junk litigation to their anti-civilization arsenal
Paul Driessen
Much to the outrage of ideological environmentalists and certain segments of the "international community," the United States won't sign the Kyoto Protocol - which some apparently believe will guarantee happy ever-aftering on a planet where temperatures remain fixed in a one or two degree spectrum, rain never falls 'til after sundown and winters exit March the second on the dot.
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