Fears of accelerating sea level rise (SLR) due to anthropogenic global warming (AGW) are rampant nowadays---often the primary phenomenon in people's minds when they think of potential ill effects of AGW. The image above, created by NASA to show what lands would be inundated by a hypothetical 70-foot SLR, thought by some to be in store for "future generations" if global average temperature (GAT) rises by 2C, causing the complete melt of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, is typical of … [Read more...]
People of the State of California v. British Petroleum P.L.C. et al.
You might---or then you might not---have heard recently of two lawsuits filed in separate jurisdictions in California lately called People of the State of California v. British Petroleum P.L.C. et al., by San Francisco city attorney Dennis Herrera and Oakland city attorney Barbara J. Parker. They allege that BP and other "big oil" companies are harming people by producing a product that causes dangerous global warming. They're about as likely to succeed as similar suits of the … [Read more...]
Is 2017 Really the First Year since 1850 with Two Category-4 U.S. Landfall Hurricanes?
Keeping up the (false) drumbeat that manmade global warming is causing more frequent and stronger hurricanes, lots of media outlets, following the spectacular Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, have proclaimed 2017 the first time in the 166 years of records in which two Category-4 hurricanes made landfall on the mainland United States in the same year.Among them were USA Today, PBS, Forbes, Fortune, Slate, The Daily Beast, Business Insider, New York Magazine, Townhall.com, … [Read more...]
Arctic sea ice—shrinking due to manmade global warming?
Although global warming alarmists have claimed that Arctic sea ice is diminishing rapidly---indeed, at unprecedented rates---the actual facts seem otherwise. That's the gist of a new post by Ron Clutz at Science Matters. This chart niftily sums up the facts: There was a fairly rapid increase in September Arctic sea ice extent 2007--2009, a rapid decrease 2009--2012, a huge recovery in 2013 that was sustained and even increased a bit in 2014, and then a minor decline to relative … [Read more...]
How’d you like to add a new continent of vegetation?
If we could get a whole new continent---equal to twice the size of the continental United States---of vegetation by spending, say, $100 billion, would that be a good deal? How would we go about answering that? Well, we might start by noting that the total value of crops raised in the U.S. in 2016 was about $143.4 billion. That's for one year. And it's from just about 18 percent of all U.S. land. But we're talking about adding a continent of vegetation double the size of the United … [Read more...]
Trump and the end of Obama’s bitter ‘war on coal’
Cornwall Alliance advisory board member Dr. H. Sterling Burnett, who is also a research fellow on energy and environment at the Heartland Institute, published a great piece at The Hill a couple of days ago. Here are some excerpts: Before he was elected president, Barack Obama promised to bankrupt coal companies, and after eight years of his administration’s anti-energy policies, that pledge turned out to be one of the few promises he kept. Obama imposed regulations limiting coal mining near … [Read more...]
Why do Ranchers Grouse about Federal Regulations to Protect Sage Grouse?
One of the basic principles of environmental stewardship is that the people closest to a problem are likely to understand it best. Yes, there might be exceptions when experts from outside can come to understand it better, but what really happens in those instances is that the outsiders get up close. If they don't, they won't. A great illustration of this is the unintended consequences of federal regulations meant to protect sage grouse, an allegedly endangered species in some of the American … [Read more...]
A Great Disturbance in the Force?
Earlier today we posted a blog piece, "Cracks in the Empire's Armor Appear," by Dr. Roy W. Spencer, that commented humorously on how the media have responded to a new study by climate scientists who heretofore have reliably toed the alarmist line. Observing that actual warming trends are far smaller than those projected by the computer climate models on which the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and various national agencies depend, the authors concluded that therefore there's … [Read more...]
Did Global Warming Cause Peat Wildfires in Greenland?
A friend of the Cornwall Alliance recently wrote, "I have been seeing things online about Greenland wildfires of peat being caused by global warming and I was wondering if you all have any resources that address this." A fairly up-to-date article about the Greenland peat fires points out that humans probably caused the fires (perhaps through carelessness) in vegetation that was parched from lower-than-usual rainfall. Although monthly average temperature in the location is up by about 0.8 … [Read more...]
How Did We Reduce the Death Rate from Hurricanes by 98.5%?
It was inevitable that global warming alarmists like Al Gore would blame mankind for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Why? Well, with folks saying global warming causes over 600 other things---from longer plane flights to summer frost in Africa, from a beer shortage to beetle infestation, from struggling brothels to declining rates of circumcision, from early marriages to the 2015 Nepal earthquake---the more intuitively plausible connection just couldn't escape the minds of such great … [Read more...]
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