Singer Stevie Wonder blamed Global Warming for the cancer that killed legendary soul singer Aretha Franklin last week. During an appearance on Friday’s CBS This Morning , and without being challenged by the pro-science “journalists” of the morning show, Wonder was allowed to spread his conspiracy theory about Global Warming being linked to cancer: I just feel that all these various diseases that we have and all these things that are happening in the world in part is because there are those who don’t believe in global warming, don’t believe that what we do affects the world. What we eat affects the world.” Wonder said. “I just hope that people will grow up out of the foolishness and know that we all, by how we think, how we view, how we treat others, we will never unlock the key until we truly let go of the hatred, the bigotry, the evilness, the selfishness. We do that and we can unlock some of those things that keep us in this place. If you read it closely, though, what … [Read more...]

Among the latest purported casualties of “climate change” are some 80,000 reindeer that died of starvation in recent years as a result of warmer and wetter seasons, according to reports. Global warming has become the official whipping boy of the environmentalist movement, blamed for everything from a slump in coffee production to Hurricane Matthew to a drop in the population of Hawaiian monk seals and even — remarkably — colder winters . One can’t help wondering about the rampant climate change that has characterized the history of our planet — including floods, tempests, earthquakes, hurricanes, and at least five major ice ages — long before humanity started leaking greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Who was to blame for the vast and constant fluctuations in temperature before man came along? Nonetheless, the August deaths of more than 300 wild reindeer after being struck by “unusually severe lightning” in Norway, as well as the untimely demise of some 2,000 … [Read more...]

Democrats impose policies that create electricity and water shortages and wildfires while blaming “climate change” and “global warming,” Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) noted on Friday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow. “California is not out of water because of global warming,” Nunes stated. “These fires aren’t happening because of global warming, Your electricity price isn’t going up because of global warming and not [having] enough solar panels. These are bad policies.” Nunes highlighted California’s planned shutdown of its only nuclear power plant as an example of how Democrat policies — marketed as “environmental” — artificially increase energy costs. He said, “I know they really want the nuclear power plant closed, but … they’re worried [that if they] close it, we’re going to go from brownouts – or just rolling brownouts -– to blackouts, and that’s where this is going to head.” Water shortages across California are also … [Read more...]

The vaunted scientific consensus around manmade global warming may be exaggerated, according to a study by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. A May 2013 report by climate scientist John Cook and fellow researchers found that among “abstracts expressing a position on [manmade global warming], 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.” This is misleading, writes Andrew Montford of GWPF, since the methodology of Cook’s report reveals that the researchers cast such a wide net to create the 97 percent consensus that it encompasses people who don’t believe in catastrophic global warming. To be part of the “consensus” one need only agree that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and that human activities have warmed the planet “to some unspecified extent” — both of which are uncontroversial points. “Almost everybody involved in the climate debate, including the majority of sceptics, accepts these propositions, so little can be learned from the … [Read more...]

The New York Times has taken warnings about global warming to a whole new level, publishing a three-part series suggesting a “potential apocalypse” from melting ice sheets if humans keep pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. “If that ice sheet were to disintegrate, it could raise the level of the sea by more than 160 feet — a potential apocalypse, depending on exactly how fast it happened,” NYT reporter Justin Gillis wrote of what some scientists predict could happen to Antarctica. Gillis points to recent research suggesting “the collapse of the ice sheet will become inevitable,” likening the projected 160-foot sea-level rise to flood stories from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Bible’s Old Testament. “In the Epic of Gilgamesh, waters so overwhelm the mortals that the gods grow frightened, too,” Gillis wrote, “In India’s version, Lord Vishnu warns a man to take refuge in a boat, carrying seeds. In the Bible, God orders Noah to carry two of every living creature on his ark.” … [Read more...]

A Norwegian technology company has found a way to stop livestock slurry from releasing methane -- by zapping it with artificial lightning. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas emitted from sources including leaky fossil fuel infrastructure , landfill sites and livestock farming. Oslo-based N2 Applied is testing its plasma technology at several sites in Europe, including on three farms in the UK. "In essence, we're harnessing lightning to zap livestock slurry and lock in harmful emissions," N2's Chris Puttick told Reuters at one of the test farms in Buckinghamshire, England. At this site, 200 dairy cows are providing the raw material: dung. Read More A manure scrapper collects all the excrement from the barn floor and deposits it in a pit where it is then moved through the N2 machine, housed in a standard-sized shipping container. Nitrogen from the air and a blast from a 50 kilowatt plasma torch is forced through the slurry 'locking in' … [Read more...]