As a candidate Donald Trump promised to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate treaty/aka agreement if elected President. Now he's reported to be wavering. The Wall Street Journal editorial team gives him good reasons not only to Pexit (exit Paris) but also to Clexit (exit the whole international climate negotiation institution, the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change---FCCC). Here's the gist: Damage from remaining in the Paris treaty (which President Barack Obama treated as an … [Read more...]
New video debunks polar bear extinction scare
Polar bear expert Susan Crockford explodes the myth that global warming threatens polar bears in a new video from the Global Warming Policy Foundation. The numbers tell the story: global polar bear population has risen to over 30,000 despite decline in summer Arctic sea ice extent. … [Read more...]
Standing Rock Sioux tribe—its own worst enemy
Ironies are often fun, and that's certainly the case with the failed effort by Standing Rock Sioux to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. David Middleton makes the point clearly, summed up in these three ironies: The protest led to a $6 million loss in revenue at the tribe's gambling casino. The protest camp itself, not the pipeline, threatened water quality for the tribe: "North Dakota authorities said the closing of the main protest camp, which sits on Army Corps of … [Read more...]
Second Warmest February in 123 Years for Contiguous U.S.—Ho Hum
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) eagerly reported March 8 that February was the second warmest February in the last 123 years for the contiguous U.S. Various news media played it up. More evidence of dangerous, manmade global warming! (Except that of course warming is only evidence of warming, not of manmade warming. And the contiguous U.S. is not equal to the globe.) See http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6.0.txt for the satellite data (which goes … [Read more...]
A step toward restoring civility to climate-change debates?
For years people like Al Gore, Robert Kennedy Jr., John Cook, and others have labeled those who question one or another aspect of the case for belief in dangerous human-induced climate change as "science deniers," "climate deniers," "environmental criminals," and worse. Such rhetoric is far from helpful not only because it demonizes, making respectful dialogue difficult if not impossible, but also because it leads inexorably to misrepresentation, and consequently misunderstanding, as people with … [Read more...]
Greenpeace lies about forest destruction
The radical environmentalist group Greenpeace has been claiming that a Canadian company, Resolute Forest Products, has caused extensive forest loss. Resolute sued for defamation and, in court proceedings, offered convincing that it had caused no forest loss whatever. Greenpeace's reply? As summarized by Resolute President and CEO Richard Garneau, its "accusations against Resolute were 'hyperbole,' 'heated rhetoric,' and 'non-verifiable statements of subjective opinion' that should not be taken … [Read more...]
Lousy climate models yield lousy “social cost of carbon”
Yesterday I reported that Judith Curry has published a paper concluding (my way of putting it) that the computer climate models on which climate-change alarmists depend provide no rational basis for predictions of future global temperature and therefore no rational basis for any policy related to such predictions. One step in climate-and-energy policy making is establishing the so-called "social cost of carbon" (SCC). That's a misnomer, of course, for it substitutes "carbon" (an element, a … [Read more...]
This changes everything!
"Consensus" climate science has for decades assumed that the vast majority of the increase in atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (from about 280 parts per million by volume [ppmv] before the Industrial Revolution to about 400 today) has come from burning fossil fuels for energy. On that assumption, "consensus" scientists have alleged that human activity has driven all or most global warming over that time. Most criticism of that thinking has focused on "climate sensitivity"---how … [Read more...]
Judith Curry confirms: climate models can’t justify policy—ANY policy
For years we at the Cornwall Alliance have been saying that the disagreement between model predictions (or projections or simulations, call them what you will) of global temperatures and real-world observations means the models are invalidated and therefore provide no rational basis for predictions of future temperature and therefore no rational basis for policies meant to respond to such predictions. Now one of the world's leading climatologists, recently retired Professor Judith Curry, Chair … [Read more...]
Congress moves to improve transparency and accountability of science in environmental regulation
People who, like us, have been concerned that much of the science behind new regulations issued by the federal EPA under the Obama Administration lacked adequate transparency and accountability will be pleased by this press release just out from the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee: Washington---U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, today introduced the Honest and Open New EPA Science Treatment Act of 2017 (HONEST … [Read more...]
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