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Should 'An Inconvenient Truth' be shown in science class? No.

Film is politics hiding under veneer of science

… — contributing equally to a rich scientific discourse. But there is no room for differing opinions in "An Inconvenient Truth," the film about climate change, specifically global warming. Viewers are led to believe that all reputable scientists believe that Mount Kilimanjaro’s receding snowcaps are …

Great Lakes Water Levels Are Up: Must be Global Cooling

… to feel more like those in Kentucky today and that by the end of the century, summer weather will resemble Arkansas and northern Mississippi. Climate change alarmists predicting doomsday scenarios for the Great Lakes are probably not too pleased with the draft report "Impacts on Upper Great Lakes Water …

Field Trips

Area science museums host special programs of interest for budding scientists and their families

… includes a large exhibition on the natural world and the way we attempt to classify nature scientifically, as well as an exhibition on art and climate change. Also featured is the acclaimed video project "Murmur," a study of starling migration in Europe. Runs through June 2010. The Cranbrook Institute …

By the Numbers

Beyond propaganda and rhetoric, numbers tell the real story

… warmed 0.07 degrees Celsius between 1999 to 2008 rather than the 0.2 degrees Celsius reported by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Hadley scientists assert that the temperature fluctuation is due to natural climate occurrences El Nino and La Nina, and compensating for those …

Field Trips

Area science museums host special programs of interest for budding scientists and their families

… information, visit www.impression5.org/index.php.    THE CRANBROOK INSTITUTE of Science and Cranbrook Art Museum present "Cape Farewell: Art and Climate Change." In 2002, artists and scientists traveled on a schooner to the Arctic. Cape Farewell features the results of this mission with photography, video, …

The Economic Punishment Agency

… go the route of the EPA to get his agenda enacted. Tim Phillips, national director of Americans for Prosperity, said when he was at the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen, one of the most chilling things he heard came from Lisa Jackson, administrator of the EPA. Phillips said that Jackson, …

Climate Accountability Act Needed in Michigan

… promised benefits. Critics of a "Climate Accountability Act" will claim this is just another attempt by the right to discredit the threat of climate change and thwart energy conservation. Nothing could be further from the truth. The "Climate Accountability Act" has little to do with environmental …

The Rise of 'Multi Stream' Media

… for the Detroit News and editor of TheMichiganView.com, said he was in Washington D.C. for a press conference on the international agreement on climate change called the Kyoto Protocol. Payne recalled the first question of the press conference was asked by the New York Times environmental reporter. …

After Veto, Gov. Snyder's Commitment To Transparency Questioned

Governor vetoed bill passed unanimously by the Legislature

… bill after the experience he had trying to get information on Michigan's agreement with England on something called the "Partnership on Global Climate Change Action." That agreement was reached under former Gov. Jennifer Granholm in 2008. Rep. Opsommer could not get any information about the agreement …

Some Progressives Want to Silence, not Debate, Opponents

'Intellectually challenged, paranoid'

… the scientists in the world,” said Jim Lakely, a spokesman for The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that disputes the notion that climate change is hurting the world. In July, the leader of a progressive think tank made news at a convention of progressive activists. Arshad Hasan, who …