As smoke from Canadian wildfires descends on the Midwest and Northeast United States, visions of climate change catastrophe dance in activists’ heads. Reinforced with a dreaded “heat dome,” denizens of disaster may have found a new home from which to pester neighbors about the end of the world as we know it. The summertime combination
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In December 1998, Dennis Prager wrote a book titled “Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual.” Nearly 26 years later, in November 2024, Mr. Prager suffered a catastrophic accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. Yet as Mr. Prager revealed in his recent op-ed for The Wall Street Journal: “Tested as they were,
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The Trump administration has rescinded the Obama administration’s 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding for gases like carbon dioxide. You may now exhale without worrying that the CO2 in your breath will contribute to global warming. After all, with 8.3 billion people on the planet exhaling an average of 2.3 pounds of CO2 per person per
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In the media world of mis-, dis-, and omitted information, the category of science stands front and center. One reason is the inordinate influence ideology has on the dissemination of science. Too often, partisan influences, whether intentional or not, affect science reporting by using selected facts and figures to support predetermined conclusions while excluding critical
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Watch out, world — here comes the God-spin on climate change inspired by the UN’s 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30). COP30 wrapped up last month with an offering of the usual suspects: socialist solutions for acolytes to advocate. According to UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, during the “high-level closing event at COP30 in Belém, Brazil,
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This Halloween season, there is a scary atmosphere across college campuses, as revealed by former Vice President Kamala Harris during a recent interview. According to Ms. Harris, her goddaughter, a junior in college, is experiencing climate anxiety, as are her fellow students. The angst is not surprising. For decades, the narrative of impending global climate
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Changes that occur in the atmosphere occur in three dimensions. That should come as no surprise, even with the wrap-up last week of Climate Week NYC. Yet so much thinking on climate change happens on a two-dimensional level. Certainly, academic and government studies delve into the dimensional complexity of the airy environment, but the study
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The 55th Earth Day arrived, and with it the usual fervor over “saving the planet.” In addition to mostly peaceful protests, traditional constructive activities are undertaken such as tree plantings, river cleanups, and wetland preservation. This year, though, a new planet-saving opportunity has presented itself: Saving a Tesla. Before Elon Musk became Public Enemy #2
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We have arrived at full immersion in the political season. From now until election day and likely weeks beyond, political rhetoric, which has become dangerously incendiary, will flourish. And the public continues to be exposed to excessive hyperbole, distortions, and omissions of facts. Such exposure has come to be expected in the world of politics.
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Although an academic treatment, “The Politics of Modelling” is a must-read for those whose lives are affected by modeling results — that’s all of us. The book states that its ambition is “to contribute to a reciprocal understanding between models and society.” And it serves as an aid to better comprehend the assumptions and limitations
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