No contest on this one. Cold weather leads directly or indirectly to 17 times as many excess human deaths as hot weather. What's surprising is that even the New York Times reported this, and prominently. In the December 19, 2016, issue, Jane Brody wrote: Most of the Northern Hemisphere is now in the throes of the deadliest time of the year. Cold kills, and I don’t mean just extreme cold and crippling blizzards. I mean ordinary winter cold, like that typically experienced, chronically or … [Read more...]
Decision-Tree Modeling Shows Warming Mitigation Fails
Earlier this year Cornwall Alliance Contributing Writer Michael Cochrane published an important piece showing that, even assuming high probability that climate alarmists are right about the magnitude of anthropogenic global warming, mitigation is a poor response. Lately Kent Hawkins published a new piece at MasterResource.org that picks up on Cochrane's piece, substitutes more realistic assumptions about the magnitude of warming and other matters that don't bend over backward, as Cochrane did, … [Read more...]
Will Trump Admin Destroy Climate Data?
Encountered the claims by climate-alarmist scientists that the incoming Trump Administration will destroy climate data? Here's a sober assessment of such, by Judith Curry. If I were among climate alarmists, I might be frightened by the prospect of the Administration's preserving ALL the data, AND all the homogenizations of it, AND all the computer code and instructions about how to do the homogenizations, because all that's the evidence of shenanigans to exaggerate the warming rate over the … [Read more...]
I’d Rather Have ROTHR: National Security vs. Wind Energy
Physicist and Cornwall Alliance friend John Droz, Jr., reveals a fascinating story of how the Obama Administration and North Carolina politicians sold out national security for the chance to look Green. The Obama-directed military and North Carolina regulators, aided by the governor and attorney general, approved an extensive industrial wind facility located where it would interfere with the operation of a vital instrument of national security: one of two land-based ROTHR—Relocatable … [Read more...]
Social Cost of Carbon—Achilles Heel of Obama Climate and Energy Policy
Most people don't know what it means, and most of those who know what it means have little or no idea how it's calculated, but the "social cost of carbon" may be one of the most important concepts---and numbers---in the climate-and-energy-policy debate, and particularly in American regulatory activity. The Obama Administration's inflated estimate of the SCC has been its primary justification for all the economy-busting regulations it's trotted out to force reductions in fossil fuel … [Read more...]
The Muck of Global Temperature Estimates
Few people have even the slightest notion how difficult it is to come up with even moderately plausible estimates of global temperature. Every measuring system has its strengths and weaknesses. Those handling them have their abilities and disabilities, their biases and blind spots. And a great deal of what goes on is politically driven to bring about predetermined results. Bob Tisdale addresses the issue ably in a recent post at WattsUpwithThat.com. One of the most valuable aspects of his … [Read more...]
Whatever Happened to the Gospel?
New guidelines for spiritual formation for future Roman Catholic priests call for them to "have a good grasp of the global climate problem" and share it with their congregations, according to Catholic Online. Those behind the guidelines insist that they're not politically motivated. Rather, they insist that all the politics is on the other side, with fossil fuel interests funding "denialism." Apparently they're unaware that renewable fuel interests fund alarmism. Maybe the Roman Catholic … [Read more...]
Pope Francis and Climate Politics
Reuters reports, “Pope Francis urged national leaders on Monday to implement global environmental agreements without delay, a message that looked to be squarely aimed at U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. “Addressing a group of scientists that included theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, the pope gave his strongest speech on the environment since the election of Trump, who has threatened to pull out of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. ‘The ‘distraction’ or delay in … [Read more...]
Yes, Climate Change is Real–and Skepticism about its Magnitude is Good Science
In “Meteorologist Tells Christians: Climate Change Is Real,” Opposing Views columnist Michael Allen misrepresents The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, of which I’m founder and national spokesman. He writes that we have “encouraged evangelical leaders to deny man-made climate change” and co-sponsored a “climate change denial conference.” On the contrary, our “Open Letter on Climate Change to the People … of the United States of America” (signed by hundreds of scientists and … [Read more...]
Who Does John Tierney Think He Is to Challenge Chris Mooney about “Science Denial”?
Leftwing environmentalist Washington Post columnist Chris Mooney has made something of a cottage industry out of lampooning what he considers conservatives' "science denial" in four books. Count 'em: The Republican War on Science, 2005 Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming, 2007 Unscientific America---How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, 2009 (with Sheril Kirshenbaum, who holds Ph.D.'s graduate degrees in meteorology and climatology marine … [Read more...]
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