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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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Oh, the delight of knowing we’ve probably just endured the last salvo in the Obama Administration’s climate-change propaganda campaign! On November 16, U.S. delegates to COP-21 in Marrakech, Morocco—the twenty-first Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—unveiled the United States Mid-Century Strategy for Deep Decarbonization. The document sets forth
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The Wall Street Journal recently published an article by physicist Rodney W. Nichols and geologist and Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt that makes perfect sense. Here’s its start: polls show that climate change is low on the list of voters’ priorities. For good reason: In the U.S., and for much of the world, the most
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