“Global Warming” on The Daily Caller

Concerned that too many “deniers” are in the meteorology business, global warming activists this month launched a campaign to recruit local weathermen to hop aboard the alarmism bandwagon and expose those who are not fully convinced that the world is facing man-made doom. (more)

A conservative think tank that holds shares in Apple is asking the company to investigate whether board member Al Gore violated the company’s business policies by advocating for actions that would be benefit him personally, but not necessarily benefit the company. (more)

DES MOINES — Newt Gingrich says he has killed a chapter on climate change in a post-election book of essays about the environment. But the intended author of the chapter, who supports the scientific consensus that humans contribute to climate change, says that’s news to her. (more)

A video clip that surfaced on YouTube on Tuesday shows Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney discussing energy policy on CNBC’s “Kudlow & Company” four years ago, and agreeing that U.S. energy policy should reflect, in part, an acknowledgement that the earth’s climate is changing. (more)

The worst thing about propaganda of any flavor is that it works, even — and especially — on the intelligent. Populism is the artery in which many bad ideas gain speed. Public intellectuals seeking public approval often take bad ideas, add a twist and make them their own. If approval is rendered, the intellectual then risks becoming intractably invested in the bad idea and a de facto propagandist himself. Such is the case with Charles M. Blow. (more)

The same day Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), declared victory in his fight against the “global warming movement,” California Democratic EPW Chairwoman Sen. Barbara Boxer reaffirmed her commitment to fighting global warming and the “climate change deniers.” (more)

Attendees at a United Nations meeting in Durban, South Africa began this year’s round of climate change negotiations on Monday, and global-warming evangelists say the stakes are high. (more)

A new batch of emails similar to the original Climategate emails, which were released in November 2009, were leaked Tuesday morning. The 5,000 new emails, pirated from University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, appear to have been culled at around the same time as the first round. (more)

Lord Christopher Monckton, former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, has a challenge for former Vice President Al Gore: debate me. (more)

With his eyes firmly on the 2012 prize, President Barack Obama is distancing himself from an inevitable presidential decision to approve or deny construction of the planned Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Texas. (more)

With summer over, climate concerns turn to extreme winter weather; and in the wake of the Eastern seaboard’s early cold snap, some are pointing to global warming as the cause of the unseasonable wintry mix. (more)

There’s been a lot of buzz and conflicting reports over what the new Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) data actually says. Depending on whose pronouncements you read, the data reveals that there’s been a “slowing down,” a “leveling off,” a “standstill” or a “slight rise” in global warming over the past decade. (more)

Watts’s complete and detailed analysis of Gore’s “Climate 101” video is available here. (more)