Recently, on a social media platform I won’t name, a well-meaning person summarized in classic form the typical layman’s—and, to be candid, the typical politician’s—case in favor of drastic efforts to reduce manmade global warming. That offers a great opportunity to answer in clear, simple terms that other laymen can use. So, here and in parts two, three, and four, I’ll present his case, and my responses. To begin with, Bob (not his real name) wrote, “I don’t know any person over 20 years old … [Read more...]
New National Climate Assessment: “Buffoonification” of Climate Science
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. believes "human-caused climate change is real and poses significant risks" and thinks "mitigation and adaptation should be policy priorities." From 1993--2001 he was a Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a premier site for American computer climate modeling. He's the author, co-author or co-editor of seven books, including The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics (2007, Cambridge University Press), The Climate Fix: What … [Read more...]
One Little Piece of Eco-madness Croaks
Sanity has not perished from the earth, or even from the United States Supreme Court. Yes, it's an endangered species, but it shows up every once in a while. The big questions: can it survive, can it regrow, can it thrive? One sighting of sanity occurred today when SCOTUS ruled, unanimously, that a piece of land in Mississippi that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had designated "critical habitat" for the endangered "dusky gopher frog" was no such thing. "Why?" you might ask. Because … [Read more...]
Climate Catastrophism Causes Candidate Catastrophes
Voters were not kind to climate-change campaigners in the midterm elections November 6. Basic summary: The two highest-profile climate initiatives failed. Republicans in Congress's "Climate Solutions Caucus" suffered defeats: of 43 members, 11 lost (including Republican caucus leader Carlos Curbelo), 3 appear likely to lose in races not yet called, 1 lost in a primary earlier, and 7 incumbents chose not to run when they saw the handwriting on the wall. Environmentalist billionaire Tom … [Read more...]
Are Georgia Summers Getting Hotter?
This morning a friend in Georgia mentioned that the common consensus among his friends there is that recent summers have been much hotter than in the past, and for that reason they're inclined to believe claims of rapid human-induced global warming. Aside from the facts that what's happening in one tiny part of the globe doesn't reveal what's happening everywhere else and that warming doesn't prove human causation, I told him I suspected the anecdotal memories might conflict with hard data. … [Read more...]
We’re Waiting for Media’s Corrections on Ocean Warming
Joshua Emerson Smith, a reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune, has picked it up, and the U-T gave his story prominent placement: "Climate contrarian uncovers scientific error, upends major ocean warming study." "It" was the revelation, by mathematician Nicolas Lewis, who specializes in statistical analysis related to climate change, that a major paper in Nature, widely considered the world's premier scientific journal, grossly overestimated the amount of warming to the world's oceans and, … [Read more...]
Where’s Global Warming When We Need It?
"NAM model forecast of total snowfall by Friday evening. Probably overdone, but it still looks like a major winter weather event. And it's only mid-November. #?*^ global warming."---Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D., Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow, Principal Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, and U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite … [Read more...]
Witch Hunts, Climate, and Climate-Change Madness
Cornwall Alliance Contributing Writer Gregory Wrightstone, author of Inconvenient Facts, posted a great video to YouTube explaining how the bitter cold, failed harvests, and famines of the Little Ice Age contributed to the witchcraft scare that led to the gruesome executions of many women (and some men) wrongly thought to be witches. Today, it’s not global cooling, which is a real problem when it happens, but global warming, which brings great benefits in terms of improved crop yields, that … [Read more...]
Are Wind Factories a Clear Case of Environmental Injustice?
Not many people can combine downright poetic writing with clear arguments about justice and economics. Radio broadcaster Bob Lonsberry did it today on his blog, "To the Metal Beasts on the Hilltop." Here's the start: Why do you think wind and solar projects in New York invariably end up in the poorest, most rural and politically powerless communities? Seriously. In this day and age, are we going to look the other way as community after community across upstate New York is stuck with … [Read more...]
Did Hurricanes Florence and Michael Provide New Evidence for Manmade Global Warming?
Apparently acting on the principle that you never let a good crisis go to waste, the Washington Post on October 18 published a breathless story titled "In North Carolina, hurricanes did what scientists could not: Convince Republicans that climate change is real." Tracy Jan, a young reporter covering "the intersection of race and the economy," which obviously qualifies her to write about the complexities of global climatology, led her story this way: It took a giant laurel oak puncturing … [Read more...]
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