English schoolteachers who show children Al Gore’s movie are now required to explain to their charges the truth about eleven lies or misleading statements in the movie. Here they are, from an article in Australia’s biggest selling daily newspaper:
Gore presents Mt Kilimanjaro’s melting snows as proof of global warming. In fact, the snows are vanishing [...]

Hurricane Katrina - whose horrendous damage, in my opinion, had more to do with seaside humans living 18 feet below sea level than it did with the hurricane itself - almost singlehandedly generated the script for Al Gore’s movie suggesting humankind was responsible for global warming. Climate researchers sure didn’t.
If you recall, Katrina was merely [...]

Slightly paraphrasing PJ O’Rourke, putting politicians and rock stars in charge of global warming is like putting teenage boys in charge of whiskey and car keys,. The heady media attention around the Live Earth concerts lead to predictable heady media results - and a massive outpouring of pollution.
Check out John Buckley in this article in [...]

Nevada’s senior Senator Harry Reid has been putting most of his focus on the national scene of late, so it was a surprise to read in the Review Journal that he was opposed to plans in White Pine County to host a couple of coal-fired power generation stations.
That led somebody - probably the Sierra Club [...]

The “Economic Forum” meets next Wednesday to determine how much tax revenue the Nevada Legislature will be able to plan to spend over the next two-year biennium. The bigger that number, the more pork will be doled out. Some lawmakers are deeply concerned, fearing that the Forum’s forecast could be even lower than we’ve [...]

One of my constituents mailed this to me. It’s an online quiz, just ten questions, about the very real global warming trend. Oops… I gave the first question away.
How will you score?

I am getting an occasional bit of email suggesting that Nevada needs to take urgent action now to stop global warming. Somewhat tongue in cheek, I occasionally suggest back that I have introduced legislation to reduce the Sun’s energy by 5%.

Here’s some interesting reading on a not-so-cool topic.