Environmentalism:

Strings, April 30, 2008
Wonder why gas prices are so high, and likely to go higher in the future? It's partly because of the stupidity of the Democrat-controlled Congress that all too often does the bidding of its left-wing enviromentalist wacko puppeteers....

The Heat Is Gone 2, March 22, 2008
Did global warming end 10 years ago? Hmm. That might explain why the oceans are cooling......

The Heat is Gone, March 20, 2008
An array of 3,000 temperature sensors in the earth's oceans have discovered zero evidence of the seas warming - exactly the opposite of what global warming theory says they'd find.Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent...

Global Warming Update, February 19, 2008
"January was Wicked Cold." Colder planet-wide. And the Arctic ice is growing and thickening....

Democracy is Bad For The Collective, February 8, 2008
A new book sure to be embraced by the Left argues that the pending doom of global warming requires that liberal democracy must give way to "a form of authoritarian government by experts" who can lead us to confront the...

Global Warming Update, February 2, 2008
South America had its coldest winter in 90 years in 2007. The Antarctica ice cap has reached record levels last year.. And now China has been crippled by worst snowstorms in 50 years....

Al Gore, Availability Entrepreneur, January 1, 2008
The forecast for 2008: More misleading hype....

Global Warming Update, December 16, 2007
Molten Lava May Be Melting Greenland's Ice Cap. Will Al Gore blame that on your car's tailpipe, too?...

Golden Opposition, September 21, 2007
Steven Milloy asks, "Is billionaire investor George Soros using environmental pressure groups to block a gold-mining project for his own financial benefit?" Milloy connects the dots and raises many of the same questions that I have been asking about Soros'...

Free-Market Environmentalism, September 21, 2007
Environmental Defense and the Terra Rossa blog offer up an informative video on the conservative/market-economy approach to reducing carbon emissions, lessening American dependence on foreign oil, and growing the domestic economy. The proposed "cap-and-trade" system would also unleash America's entrepreneurial...

MYOB Review, September 5, 2007
Alvaro Vargas Llosa, senior fellow and director of The Center on Global Prosperity at The Independent Institute, reviews the documentary Mine Your Own Business. Says Llosa: "This documentary speaks volumes about the Manichean vision that many bleeding-heart Americans and Europeans...

Why Does Soros Want to Keep Some Folks Poor?, September 5, 2007
Yeah, sometimes instead of writing about Tennessee politics, media or the war I go off and write about a mining project in Romania that has caught my interest. This is my a blog, so you get what I'm interested in,...

Message in a Bottle, August 22, 2007
On Newsbusters today: Romanian Villager Sends PBS Message in Bottle to Debunk Anti-Mining Documentary....

The Soros Connection, August 21, 2007
I mentioned yesterday the decision by PBS to air a biased documentary regarding a proposed gold mine in Romania. Today's Wall Street Journal exposes more facts about that "documentary," including its connection to famed investor and funder of liberal causes...

Unbalance at WNPT, PBS, August 19, 2007
PBS is scheduled to broadcast nationally Tuesday night a biased documentary about a gold-mining project in Romania. The PBS series Wide Angle, titled "Gold Futures," in which the ongoing controversy over the proposed gold mine in the village of Rosia...

Truth Too Hot To Handle?, August 11, 2007
Not only has the major mainstream news media ignored the story of the Y2K error that caused NASA to erroneously declare 1998 to be the warmest year on record in the USA - actually, 1934 was - the error continues...

Oops!, August 9, 2007
NASA admits the data showing 1998 was "the warmest year on record" is wrong. Oh, and the accuracy of the network of temperature sensors upon which such calculations are based can not be validated. Details at the Ecotality blog....

Greener Gore, August 4, 2007
Criticism of Al Gore's energy-hogging mansion and carbon-spewing lifestyle that seemed so at odds with Mr. Inconvenient Truth's anti-global warming crusade seems to have spurred the former Vice President into some serious greening of his Nashville estate. And we're not...

TVA Considers Nuking Global Warming, July 27, 2007
The Tennessee Valley Authority is preparing a major effort to combat global warming. Read all about it - and why it is necessary - at the Ecotality blog today. Here's the link....

Villagers to Soros: Mind Your Own Business!, July 12, 2007
Billionaire and Democratic and liberal causes benefactor George Soros so badly wants to protect the poor people of rural Romania from a gold mine that will improve their standards of living that his Open Society Institute opened an office in...

Digging The Poor's Grave, June 30, 2007
Phelim McAleer, the director of the excellent documentary Mine Your Own Business, writes that environmentalists are the new threat facing the world's poor....

Blogging from Romania, June 11, 2007
Gheorghe Luchian, the Romanian villager who stars in the documentary Mine Your Own Business, which exposes how environmentalist groups fight against economic progress for poor people in impoverished communites from Romania to Chile to Madagascar, now has a blog, Report...

Turtles and Terrorists, May 28, 2007
Associated Press: Border Fence Could Imperil Wildlife, Environmentalists Say. Environmentalists want open border so turtles and other critters can thrive. Sane people want closed border to keep out terrorists. An environmentalism that trumps national security is not a sane environmentalism....

Fighting Back, May 27, 2007
I have written a few times in the past about Mine Your Own Business, an excellent documentary exposing the dark side of the environmental movement. Now comes word that the mining industry, the target of the unfair attacks exposed in...

Don't Ban Incandescent Light Bulbs!, May 22, 2007
The growing movement around the world to ban incandescent lightbulbs in order to force a mass switch to compact flourescent bulbs as a way to fight global warming is misguided policy-making for a number of health, environmental and economic reasons....

GAO Asked to Probe "Carbon Offsets", May 21, 2007
Two members of Congress have asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate the growing business of selling "carbon offsets," those modern-day environmental "indulgences" that let individuals and organizations claim to be "carbon neutral" in terms of their carbon dioxide emissions....

You Can Always Blame America, May 3, 2007
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change doesn't explicitly say so, but it has identified another way that America contributes to global warming: Rice. And I don't mean Condoleeza. Glenn Reynolds points to a report that the growing of...

Sheryl Crow Solves Global Warming, April 23, 2007
Click the image to learn Cheryl Crow's plan to wipe away global warming......

Gored: How Modern Environmentalism's God Punishes the Poor of Pascua Lama, Chile, April 23, 2007
Over halfway through the excellent documentary Mine Your Own Business there's a fascinating revelation: environmentalists fighting a proposed gold mine high in the Andes mountains on the border between Chile and Argentina are being supported in their fight against Toronto-based...

Gore's Solar Panels: Bad Investment, So-So Environmentally, Good Politics, April 17, 2007
As the Zoning Appeals Board of the Nashville sub-city of Belle Meade considers Al Gore's request for a conditional-use permit to install solar panels on the roof of his mansion during its meeting Tuesday night (April 17), I thought I'd...

Signs of Progress, April 12, 2007
As seen in front of Al Gore's Lynwood Boulevard mansion in Nashville's posh Belle Meade neighborhod this afternoon. I wonder if Gore himself will be at the zoning board meeting to make the case for why he should be...

Global Warming Won't Kill Knut the Baby Polar Bear, April 6, 2007
Douglas Kerns address the hypocrisy of carbon offsets in a hilarious piece that explains why German environmentalists want to kill Knut the baby polar bear.Consider Al Gore again. No man who genuinely believed in a looming apocalypse would live like...

A Gorgy of Hate, April 5, 2007
Nationally syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock has written an article about the thousands of threatening and abusive calls and emails which the Tennessee Center for Policy Research after the Nashville think tank generated a global media storm by exposing Al Gore's...

Yet Another Inconvenient Truth, April 4, 2007
The company from which Al Gore gets those "carbon offsets" to offset his huge carbon-emissions stemming from the global warming hypester's energy-hogging, jet-setting lifestyle actually spends less than a quarter of its revenue on projects that offset carbon emissions, according...

The Low Cost of Doing Nothing, March 24, 2007
Over at the Ecotality blog today: Carbon offsets as cheap political symbolism, and as cheap airline PR. Plus, the world's most famous user of carbon offsets to mask the hypocrisy of his energy-hogging, atmosphere-polluting lifestyle has started a blog....

Spotted: Al Gore's New Blog, March 24, 2007
Al Gore is blogging. His first post was on Feb. 27, right as the controversy over his hypocritcally energy-hogging lifestyle was breaking. But no mention of it on his blog, which is jammed with YouTube vids featuring Gore and is...

Doing My Part to Save the Planet, March 24, 2007
I read somewhere recently that recycling a 3-foot-high stack of newspapers can save one whole tree. So although I long ago started reading "newspapers" primarily online I'm going to subscribe to some printed newspapers again, so I can recycle them...

Questioning Inconvenient Truths, March 19, 2007
Two new posts at the Ecotality blog today: Questioning Carbon Offsets explores the inconvenient truth about that trendy way that wealthy folks can pretend to be "green." And, speaking of inconvenient truths, the New York Times, of all papers, is...

The Gore Mine, March 18, 2007
Here's the story on that zinc mine underneat Al Gore's Carthage, Tennessee, farm, that The Tennessean teased yesterday. The paper recounts the Gore family's relationship with Occidental Petroleum, and the mine's environmental history. The story is fairly Gore-friendly, but Glenn...

Gore Set To Make More Money From Toxins-Emitting Zinc Mine, March 17, 2007
The Saturday Tennessean teases a big story coming Sunday about the polluting zinc mine on Al Gore's Carthage, Tennessee, property......

Al Gore, Meet Mike Strizki, March 15, 2007
Al Gore could learn a thing or two from Mike Strizki about living one's inconvenient truth. I've got that story and other clean-tech bloggage over at the Ecotality blog, where I write about environmental news, trends and technology on behalf...

Environmental Facism?, March 7, 2007
The documentary Mine Your Own Business, which exposes the dark side of the international environmental movement, was shown at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada annual meeting. Mineweb.com reviews the film, which documents the negative impacts and dubious claims...

Talking Points Memo, March 6, 2007
Soon after the news broke last week about Al Gore's energy-hog mansion, the leftwing HuffingtonPost.com began attacking the story and trying to build a defense for Gore, ultimately publishing seven "Talking Points" for Gore defenders to use. I've seen some...

Thanks, Al, March 5, 2007
In my five-plus years of blogging, I've experienced a number of "Instalanches" and even had a few of my posts linked by the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com and Howard Kurtz's media column on WashingtonPost.com, and I've seen big traffic spikes...

Gored, March 5, 2007
I'm hearing there may be another bombshell story set to surface later this week in the ongoing saga of Al Gore and his energy-hog Nashville mansion This time, though, the damage will be collateral......

Looking For Carbon Offsets 2, March 4, 2007
Might Al Gore's spokesman have been telling the truth, or something close to it, when she claimed Gore buys "carbon offsets" through his own investment management firm to compensate for his Nashville mansion's incredibly high use of natural gas and...

Falling For Gore, March 4, 2007
National Public Radio fell for Al Gore's dubious claim that he buys "carbon offsets" to offset the atmosphere-polluting energy usage of his energy-hog Nashville mansion. Memo to NPR: The company Gore's spokesman claim Gore buys his "carbon offsets" from -...

Global Warming Junk Bonds?, March 3, 2007
Blogger Doug Ross finds some intriguing links between Al Gore and junk bond king Michael Milke and wonders if carbon offsets are just a high-class junk bond scam, but updated for the 21st century. The similarities and the links are...

In Al's Defense, March 2, 2007
So, Al Gore's folks claim his mammoth energy usage isn't really that bad because he buys "carbon offsets," although that doesn't appear to be quite the truth, and because he signed up for Nashville Electric Service's "Green Power Switch" program,...

Looking for Carbon Offsets, March 2, 2007
As I've discussed at length here, Al Gore claims to buy "carbon offsets" from a firm, Generation Investment Management, which he co-founded and serves as chairman. If you visit the firm's website, you will find no mention of carbon offsets...

Lessons From Al Gore, March 2, 2007
The ripples from the Al Gore story continue to roll outward from the epicenter of environmental hypocrisy, often with hilarious results. Also from that same blog, a serious look at how, by emulating Gore's (alleged but unproven) use of "carbon...

Nobody's Perfect, March 1, 2007
Fallout from the Al-Gore's-an-energy-hog story: IowaHawk offers a low-cost solution to global warming, Tyler Cowen looks at the economics of "carbon offsets," Eric Scheie spins from Gore's environmental hypocrisy for a good discussion of hypocrisy and politics, Creative Destruction explains...

The Profit of Doom, February 28, 2007
As the controversy over global warming doomsayer Al Gore's voracious energy-eater mansion rolls on, there's an angle I think merits deeper investigation than it is currently getting. While much of the focus has been on whether or not Gore is...

Inconvenient Hypocrisy, February 27, 2007
ABC News' Jake Tapper covers the flap over Al Gore's gargantuan energy usage at his posh Nashville mansion. Gore's hypocrisy reminds me of the World Wildlife Fund environmentalist Mark Fenn, interviewed in the documentary Mine Your Own Business, who battles...

Six Degrees of Al Gore, February 27, 2007
The record high for Los Angeles on Feb. 25 was 92 degrees, set in 1921. The average high temperature for Feb. 25 in Los Angeles is 70 degrees. [Source] The high temperature in Los Angeles on Sunday when Al Gore...

Environmentalists are Today's Colonialists, February 25, 2007
Radio Ireland interviewed the director of Mine Your Own Business, the documentary feared by the environmental movement. He explains why today's global environmentalists are modern-day colonialists. Listen to it at the film's blog, which also has a separate post linking...

Anti-Hunters Gun for Meat-Eaters, February 25, 2007
From a story in the Sunday Tennessean looking at the political efforts of some anti-hunting zealots to ban hunting: Spokeswoman Stephanie Boyles said PETA membership rose by a half-million last year. "As an animal rights group, we believe that killing...

"Greens are Instinctively Genocidal", February 23, 2007
Australian blogger James Waterton reviews the documentary film Mine Your Own Business: "This movie has been billed by some as a 'right-wing' counterpart to a Michael Moore production, but it comes across as considerably less polemical - and enormously more...

A Digital Demonstration, February 22, 2007
Environmental activists planning a day of distributed demonstrations April 14 across the country are also hoping to employ social media to multiply the impact: From WorldChanging.com: In the spirit of the age, we've designed this be a distributed day of...

Green UT Update, February 21, 2007
Thanks to a link from Instapundit, my post yesterday about the University of Tennessee making a commitment to "go green" is suddenly getting a lot of reader comments. Click here to join the conversation. (No comments here, please, let's keep...

UT Promises to Go Green, February 20, 2007
The University of Tennessee is the first and so far the only Tennessee college or university to sign the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, which the Chronicle of Higher Education described as "a new effort by academia to...

Hot Off The Press, February 11, 2007
A different explanation for global warming? It would be an inconvenient truth to the Left, which is using "global warming" as a club to hammer America and undermine capitalism. Update: The Rational Environmentalist wonders if there is yet another alternative...

100,000 Eyes Opened, February 9, 2007
The director and producer of Mine Your Own Business - the documentary the environmental movement tried to silence - report that the trailer for the film has now been viewed by more than 50,000 people via YouTube. My previous posts...

"The Environmental Movement is Afraid of This Film", February 8, 2007
NRO managing editor Peter Suderman reviews the documentary Mine Your Own Business and explains "the environmental movement is clearly afraid of this film, and it should be." I have a MYOB on a DVD, but would love to see the...

Exposing Inconvenient Truths, February 2, 2007
I've written a handful of blog posts recently about a new documentary, Mine Your Own Business, which explores the negative effects of environmentalists battling to prevent new mining projects in three small and impoverished villages in Romania, Madagascar and Chile....