The 25th Conference of Parties to the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change was scheduled to take place in Brazil this year. Not anymore. Brazil pulled out.Brazil once offered to host this year’s Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week. It just withdrew the offer.Brazil has also declined an invitation to attend the on-going UNDP-sponsored Good Growth Conference in Lima, Peru.And recently President Jair Bolsonaro fired Alfredo Sirkis from his position at the top of the Brazil … [Read more...]
The Environmental Marvel that Even Avengers Could Not Have Dreamt of
Why aren’t you seeing or hearing good news about the environment on your news apps and primetime news?If you think it’s because there isn’t any, think again. There’s lots.But environmentalists and the mainstream media (MSM) constantly focus … [Read more...]
The Global Nuclear Push: Pathway to a Bright and Secure Energy Future
I believe the future of energy is nuclear. Many others do, too.Despite the unfounded fears surrounding their safety, almost all major economies in the world have embraced nuclear technology with both arms.Here is a look at the current nuclear energy scenario and recent developments that offer a hope of a bright and secure energy future.Nuclear Energy: Standing Tall and StrongIn 2017, nuclear plants supplied 2,487 Terra Watt-hours (TWh) of electricity, constituting nearly 11 percent of all … [Read more...]
Mother’s Day and Abortion: Hope for the Living and the Lost
I was born through a mother. So were you.But even as I was wishing a happy Mother’s Day to folks yesterday, a primetime news headline on CNN’s international website caught my eyes:“There was no hope.”CNN’s Attack on Mother’s DayThe article talked of the difficulty in getting an abortion in Italy. CNN followed that with an article reporting on why the woman who invented Mother’s Day now regrets it.An unashamed and blatant attack on motherhood was all CNN could … [Read more...]
Air Pollution: Why There’s Hope for a Brighter Future
For many people today, humanity’s biggest moral failure is that we are destroying our environment. Nations that took part in the Industrial Revolution (those that conquered poverty long before others) get the lion’s share of the blame.High on the list of their crimes is air pollution. Soot- and smog-filled skies are an affront to the eyes — and the lungs. They’re among the most obvious forms of pollution.So, what’s happening around the world with regard to air pollution?If you’re a Millennial in … [Read more...]
Whose Business Is It Anyway? When I Got Climate-Bullied on Twitter
The hate level on Twitter can far exceed any other on social media.But many sane, civilized, intelligent people on Twitter continue to make our world a better place. They share ideas and communicate life-altering, life-saving information to the larger public.Twitter also provides a platform to engage with peers. As a climate researcher, I love the fact that Twitter allows me to connect with other climate scientists.Climate AlarmistsOne such person is Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, a Canadian climate … [Read more...]
Climate Madness Might Cost Elections: Lessons from the Canadian Carbon Tax Fiasco
Politicians who favor policies to fight global warming that will impose big costs on consumers might take a lesson from what’s happening in Canada.The Trudeau government imposed a new carbon tax on its citizens effective April 1, 2019. (Yes, indeed, April Fool’s Day!) But it faces legal challenges in the provinces of Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and New Brunswick, none of which has its own carbon tax, which is why the federal tax went into effect in them.Even provinces like Alberta, which … [Read more...]
Beyond Partisan Ideology and Big-Oil Interests: Why Climate Skepticism Thrives
It is easy to associate climate skepticism with the Republican Party and climate alarmism with the Democratic Party. It’s also easy to brand skeptics as beneficiaries of big oil and proponents of unfettered capitalism and alarmists as in the pocket of big wind and solar and boosters of socialist central planning.But attitudes about climate change transcend political ideologies, and they should.Here are a few reasons why I, as a climate scientist, am a skeptic.1. Will the Real Climate Change … [Read more...]
Are Climate Alarmists Waking Up to Their Hypocrisy? London Mayor Calls Out Protestors
During the Easter weekend, London Mayor Sadiq Khan made a surprise plea to climate protestors. He asked them to end their protests, which he said caused disorder problem in the world’s iconic city.It is not common for a pro-alarmist leader to call for an end to a climate protest. Are more diplomats and leaders waking up to the insanity of climate protests across the globe? Will we see more politicians and celebrities expose the rampant hypocrisy in the climate alarmist movement?Climate … [Read more...]
Nuclear Conflict and Political Scandal Eclipse Climate Change as Existential Threat
Despite their incessant drumbeat about global warming, mainstream media knows climate doomsday is not imminent and are probably uncomfortable when doomsayers like Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) say, “The world will end in 12 years” unless we do something, drastic, now.But they are well aware that political catastrophes could cause much greater harm to humanity—not in the far distant future, but within months, weeks, or even a single day.That’s why climate change and the “Green New … [Read more...]
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