Ann Althouse dissects Al Gore’s latest op-ed in today’s NYT.
Feb
27
Mark Landsbaum: Arguing Global Warming with Arnold.
California has the most destructive and costly global warming law in the nation, if not the world. In a perverse way, it’s the governor’s crowning achievement. That says a lot about a fellow who drove the state into virtual bankruptcy, accelerated unemployment to at least 12 percent, while dramatically increasing government spending, taxes and the government payroll. But those destructive acts pale next to what’s in store if his preposterously titled Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 is enforced as planned.
California is the pivotal battle in the global warming war. If the tax-and-cap crowd succeeds here, it’s only a matter of time before their poisonous solution spreads coast to coast. We are, as warmists say, reaching a tipping point.
Read the rest here.
Feb
26
James Dobson said his final goodbye today as host of the “Focus on the Family” radio show he started more than 30 years ago.
Story here.
Feb
26
CT reviews Brian McLaren’s new book, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith.
Feb
26
The WSJ on the IPCC’s upcoming attempt to restore its image.
In the next few days, the world’s leading authority on global warming plans to roll out a strategy to tackle a tough problem: restoring its own bruised reputation.
A months-long crisis at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has upended the world’s perception of global warming, after hacked emails and other disclosures revealed deep divisions among scientists working with the United Nation-sponsored group. That has raised questions about the panel’s objectivity in assessing one of today’s most hotly debated scientific fields.
The problem stems from the IPCC’s thorny mission: Take sophisticated and sometimes inconclusive science, and boil it down to usable advice for lawmakers. To meet that goal, scientists working with the IPCC say they sometimes faced institutional bias toward oversimplification, a Wall Street Journal examination shows.
More.
Feb
26
Reason interviews Shane Harris, author of the new book, The Watchers: The Rise of the America’s Surveillance State.
You can read an essay adapted from the book at the WSJ.
Feb
25