The Day After Tomorrow

Top 10 Scientifically Inaccurate Movies

Yahoo! unveils a pretty good list of action and science fiction movies that play fast and loose with scientific facts. I enjoyed their thorough beat-down of The Day After Tomorrow…

“There’s nothing real in there”

That’s what Karen Goulekas tells ABC News about one shot from Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” but it would also apply to most of the global warming alarmist argument. It…

It’s coming–the day after tomorrow

More global warming moonbattery

Sen. James Inhofe catches CNN anchor Miles O’Brien in a global-warming contradiction. Seems O’Brien a few years ago was claiming a new Ice Age was coming. Inhofe just happened to…

Re: The Current Barrage on Global Warming

Roy, when Stanford biological sciences professor Stephen Schneider said back in 1989 that “we [scientists] have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of…

UNC-Chapel Hill “Endeavors” to serve the Perpetually Terrified

After all, those poor folks probably can’t spend all their time watching apocalyptic TV fantasies “that could actually happen.” I’m sure they need some reading material for when they’re hiding…

More terrifying TV fare for the gullible

(See, I knew this would end up making a good LR series!) This week, Matt Lauer hosts “Countdown to Doomsday” and interviews, among others, Paul “The Population Prediction Bomb” Ehrlich.…

“FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE”

Roy, what a great find! That’s the charlatan-behind-the-curtain-of-Oz gaffe of the year! It’s just entirely too beautiful, on down to the use of my new favorite word, “Armageddonist” (which blows…

Re: Compensation for UNC pres ? play it again

George, it reminded me of something, too: The upshot of all this is that [University of California] officials cited market forces and “price creep” when they hired Marye Anne Fox…

Fear in the 80s

Roy, I’m not preoccupied by 1985, but I would guess more people worried about Ethiopian starvation that year than about nuclear winter. The same people who read Ground Zero probably…

Envirowackos signal they’ve got about 10 years till they’ve irrevocably lost the debate

From the Independent (UK) comes an answer to the question posed by the old rock group Kansas: “How long to the point of no return?” An international report by “senior…

Antidote to Day After Tomorrow

Michael Crichton, of Jurassic Park fame, has a new novel out and it is all about debunking global warming alarmism. An Associated Press review of the book describes it as…