by Henry Oliner | Dec 22, 2017 | Media, Politics
By Henry Oliner “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Winston Churchill While attributed to Churchill this quote has a history before his time, but imagine how today’s social media magnifies this axiom. The New York...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 8, 2017 | Global Warming
from National Review and Ian Tuttle, The 97% Solution Surely the most suspicious “97 percent” study was conducted in 2013 by Australian scientist John Cook — author of the 2011 book Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand and creator of the blog Skeptical Science...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 4, 2017 | Global Warming
from The Wall Street Journal, A Deceptive New Report on Climate by Steven Koonin This isn’t the only example of highlighting a recent trend but failing to place it in complete historical context. The report’s executive summary declares that U.S. heat waves have become...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 28, 2017 | Global Warming
from National Review, Matt Ridley: Climate Change’s Rational Optimist “This is a huge global phenomenon, which is bringing enormous financial benefits to agriculture,” Ridley told me. “That means we have a genuine benefit to carbon dioxide that surely must be taken...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 11, 2016 | Politics, Progressivism, Science
from Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe, Healey’s Exxon witch-hunt: As a citizen and a politician, Healey is fully entitled to condemn fossil fuels, decry global warming, and express scorn for those who don’t agree with her and Gore. As the chief...
