Post Tagged 'alarmism'

July 25, 2008

Global Warming Consensus alert: Flame on!

It must be tough to be Al Gore sometimes. We all know that the weather has a habit of not cooperating with his “major addresses” on global warming; how many times have his big pronouncements been accompanied by major snowstorms? Continue Reading...

June 24, 2008

Global Warming Consensus alert: Crimes against humanity!!!

NASA Scientist and chief global warming “consensus” cheerleader James Hansen testified before Congress yesterday that the chief executives of oil companies should be put on trial for high crimes against humanity for spreading doubt about global warming. Continue Reading...

January 01, 2008

Global warming consensus alert – consensus breach at the New York Times

I guess I’ll do the honors for first post of the year once again… Availability cascade: An availability cascade is a self-reinforcing process of collective belief formation by which an expressed perception triggers a chain reaction that gives the perception increasing plausibility through its rising availability in public discourse. Continue Reading...

November 29, 2007

Global Warming Consensus Watch – The Canonical List of Global Warming-Caused Crises

It has been noted in the past, both in previous PowerBlog posts and elsewhere in the blogosphere, that climate change alarmists are wont to attribute virtually any anomaly in the weather (or, frankly, in any other area of human existence) to global warming. Continue Reading...

November 20, 2007

Alarmism and Corruption

Regis Nicoll over at The Point notes a WaPo story that is getting a lot of play on the blogosphere about the UN’s downgrade of the estimate of the extent of the AIDS epidemic, “U.N. Continue Reading...