Marc Morano

Leading Climate Scientist: Cap and Trade Could Ruin US Economy

BILLINGS- As debate over climate change legislation heats up on Capitol Hill, the Director of the University of Montana’s Climate Change Studies Program, and a co-author of a Nobel Prize winning report, says cap and trade legislation could ruin the US economy.

Silly: Sen. Kerry’s 30min. Statement On Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill

CNN’s Lou Dobbs Hosts Rare Global Warming Debate Over Gore’s ‘Errors’

'Not Evil Just Wrong' director rips Fred Krupp of Environmental Defense Fund's for being 'millionaire lawyer who calls himself an environmentalist' Transcript of CNN's LOU DOBBS TONIGHT - Aired October 12, 2009 - 19:00 ET Video of Full Segments: Part 1 and Part 2.

Great Non-Debate: Wash Post’s Freedman claims paper is not ‘politically motivated’

The great non-debate has occurred. The Washington Post's Andrew Freedman refused to debate Climate Depot's executive editor Marc Morano at the invitation of Clean Skies TV. Freedman, of the paper's Capital Weather Gang, accused Climate Depot of being anti-science and having an "anti-science journalism agenda" on September 2, 2009 in the Washington Post. Freedman has since refused to face off with Morano in a TV debate. Instead, Freedman demanded to do a solo segment with the reporter instead of defending his global warming assertions in front of Climate Depot in a televised debate.

Media Charged with Performing ‘Climate Porn’ on Arctic Ice Shipping Claims

The media is once again hyping “unprecedented” claims about the Arctic. The UK Independent paper went absolutely gaga in a silly front page headline about the Arctic which screamed: “A Triumph for Man, A Disaster for Mankind.” The September 12, 2009 article in the paper claimed: “Two ships are finishing the first commercial navigation of the fabled Northwest Passage. It is an epic moment -- but also a vivid sign of climate change in the Arctic."

Nobel Prize-winner Norman Borlaug has died ‘saved more human lives than any other’

Renowned agricultural scientist Dr. Norman Borlaug has died at the age of 95. Borlaug, known as the father of the "Green Revolution" for saving over a billion people from starvation by utilizing pioneering high yield farming techniques, is one of only five people in history who has been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom ,and the Congressional Gold Medal.

Not Again! Media Now Promoting Arctic ‘Hockey Stick’ - Scientists Already Rebuking Latest Study

Climate Depot The Washington Post is touting a new study purporting to show an Arctic temperature "Hockey Stick." But the study appears to contradict numerous previous Arctic studies and scientists are already challenging the premise and claims of the new study. The study in under fire for basing key results and conclusions on Penn State Professor Michael Mann's discredited "Hockey Stick" temperature graph. (Editor's Note: Mann just recently attempted to invent a hurricane "Hockey Stick" as well. )

Washington Post Blames Obama For Failure of Global Warming Movement!

The Washington Post's Andrew Freedman of paper's "The Capital Weather Gang", has written a thorough commentary on why he believes the man-made global warming movement is failing politically and scientifically to convince the public and lawmakers of the seriousness of the issue. Freedman appears to lay the fault directly at the feet of President Obama, writing that Obama's "mistakes may cost the planet dearly." Freedman also cites Climate Depot (and the Heartland Institute) as having made a huge impact in shaping lawmakers and the public's skeptical view of the latest climate science.

Climate Fear Promoters Greatest Fear—A Public Trial of the ‘Evidence’ of Global Warming Fears!

Climate Depot Editorial The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has shocked the global warming debate by its formal call to hold a public global warming trial to decide on the "evidence" that mankind is driving a climate catastrophe.

Greenpeace Leader Admits Arctic Ice Exaggeration

The outgoing leader of Greenpeace has admitted his organization's recent claim that the Arctic Ice will disappear by 2030 was "a mistake."

‘Sun’s output may decline significantly inducing another little ice age on the Earth’

[Below is a guest post by Statistician Dr. Richard Mackey, who authored a 2007 peer-reviewed study which found that the solar system regulates the earth's climate. The paper was published August 17, 2007 in the Journal of Coastal Research - Excerpt: "According to the findings reviewed in this paper, the variable output of the sun, the sun's gravitational relationship between the earth (and the moon) and earth's variable orbital relationship with the sun, regulate the earth's climate. The processes by which the sun affects the earth show periodicities on many time scales; each process is stochastic and immensely complex." Mackey is featured on page 228 of U.S. Senate Report of 700 Dissenting Scientists.]

Major Science Group ‘Startled’ By Outpouring of Scientists Rejecting Man-Made Climate Fears!

Climate Depot Exclusive An outpouring of skeptical scientists who are members of the American Chemical Society (ACS) are revolting against the group's editor-in-chief -- with some demanding he be removed -- after an editorial appeared claiming “the science of anthropogenic climate change is becoming increasingly well established.”

UN IPCC Scientist: ‘Natural climate change denial of the last decade is not sustainable anymore’

UN IPCC Scientist Richard Courtney responds to new peer-reviewed study calling climate models "fundamentally wrong." (See: Study shakes foundation of climate theory! Reveals UN models 'fundamentally wrong' - Blames 'Unknown Processes' -- not CO2 for ancient global warming - 'Global warming: Our best guess is likely wrong' July 14, 2009)

‘Global warming: Our best guess is likely wrong’

Climate Depot A new peer-reviewed study may shake the foundation upon which man-made global warming fears are based. The new study discovered "something fundamentally wrong with the way temperature and carbon are linked in climate models."

Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About ‘Global Governance’

Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about "global governance."

NASA’s James Hansen Blasts Obama’s ‘Counterfeit’ Climate Bill

Below is an excerpt of NASA scientist James Hansen's critique of the President Obama supported Waxman-Markey global warming cap-and-trade bill that passed the House and is now under consideration in the U.S. Senate. Hansen's full critique appeared on July 9, 2009 in The Huffington Post. Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, but he writes on this policy-related topic as a private citizen.

‘At no other time in the history of science have we been able to say what the future will be 100 yea

President Obama's Energy Secretary Steven Chu is at it again. Fresh off his declarations in May claiming computer model predictions as evidence of a certain climate catastrophe, (see: Climate Depot Exclusive: Sec. Chu's assertions 'quite simply being proven wrong by the latest climate data' - April 19, 2009), he has now gotten more bold, confidently predicting a certain climate catastrophe by the year 2109. (When he and everyone who hears his warning today will be conveniently DEAD!)

Climate Bill’s Passage ‘unrestrained exercise of raw political power, arm-twisting, intimidation’

Climate Depot The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed global warming bill (219-212 vote) will no doubt be hailed by many as "historic" or "landmark" or "The Bill of the Century."

‘Scaremongering’: Scientists Pan Obama Climate Report

Below is a small sampling of first reactions to the President Obama's new global warming report. (See: Obama issues global warming report -- 'Detailed picture of the worst case scenarios' -- 'Poised for its most forceful confrontation with American public')

Could Cap and Trade Cause Another Market Meltdown?

Excerpt: Are carbon default swaps and subprime offsets next? […] Already, the industry has achieved its main objective: The Waxman-Markey bill would create a big, convoluted market for carbon derivatives. […]"Even in the presence of a tough regulatory system…that is working hard to get things right…lots of counterfeit carbon currency is making it into the system." Michelle Chan, the investment program manager for Friends of the Earth, believes that if offset derivatives aren't properly regulated, they could become "subprime carbon"—futures contracts that promise emissions reductions but fail to deliver and then collapse in value. Already, she points out, some banks are bundling credits from multiple offset projects and splitting them into tranches to sell to investors.