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...]
Fracking: It helps Americans, hurts terrorists
Oh, my! Few things can better communicate the enormous benefits of the boom in U.S. shale oil and gas production from fracking than this. The boom not only drives costs for American energy consumers to record lows, but also drives down revenues for OPEC, the leading source of financial support to the world's biggest and most deadly terrorist organizations. … [Read more...]
Does the Trump Administration Put Science in Jeopardy?
It's hard to imagine a more thoroughly ignorant statement than this: “The discipline of science is one where the facts, once they are peer-reviewed and published in scientific journals, are fixed. They’re not open to interpretation, or at least not much.” That's the opinion of Jeffrey Kluger and Justin Worland, writing in "How a war on science could hurt the U.S.---and its citizens." in Time magazine. The truth, of course, for these two apparent neophytes to science, is quite the … [Read more...]
A Film that Could Revolutionize Your Whole Perception of How to Help the Poor
Nearly thirty years ago I published my first book on Christian economics, Prosperity and Poverty: The Compassionate Use of Resources in a World of Scarcity. The last three chapters dealt with the nature and causes of poverty and how churches and individuals can help the poor. I said some fairly controversial things then about how ineffective many methods are, whether by governments, private organizations, or individuals. Since then I’ve seen nothing to change my mind. But I have learned some … [Read more...]
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