The Problem with Naturalism

Scientific American‘s report on the awarding of this year’s Templeton Prize to Brazilian theoretical physicist and cosmologist Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College, is fascinating reading. One could wish that many climate scientists, so over-sure of themselves, would read it and take it to […]

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… until the other comes and examines him.

Has the climate-change controversy reached a milestone? That depends in part on whether President Donald Trump follows through with his desire to appoint a President’s Committee on Climate Security (PCCS) under the National Security Council (NSC). The PCCS would be tasked with assessing the pros and cons of various perspectives on climate change—subjecting them to

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In Climate Science, Start with the Basics: Physics

Last week in WattsUpwithThat.com I published the article “Did Trump Appoint Jack the Ripper as Guardian of a Girls’ School?” It lampooned, and rebutted, attacks on Princeton physicist Dr. Will Happer and President Donald Trump’s intent for him to head a committee on climate security at the National Security Council. That generated lots of comments,

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Did Trump Appoint Jack the Ripper as Guardian of a Girls’ School?

You’d think so, if you observed the reactions by the climate-change establishment to President Donald Trump’s appointment, back in September, of Will Happer as Senior Director for Emerging Technologies on the National Security Council (NSC), and the prospect of Trump’s forming a Presidential Committee on Climate Security, headed by Happer, under the NSC, to bring

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Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal wouldn’t slow climate change, but your electricity costs would skyrocket

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal would require Americans to rely on unreliable solar and wind energy that would raise electric bills by several hundred percent for every family and business, hit us with power blackouts and brownouts, worsen poverty and do nothing to slow climate change. Yes, you read that right. Even the drastic, unrealistic and multitrillion-dollar energy

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Will Sea Levels Rise?

There’s a lot of scaremongering by global warming alarmists who want your money and to control your lives. One of the more popular scare stories is that global warming will make sea levels rise to the point that coastal cities will drown and islands disappear. Remember the ridiculous “documentary” by Al Gore? It won an

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The More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same

My friend David Saulsbury, a chemist, just reminded me of Newsweek‘s April 28, 1975, article, “The Cooling World,” saying, “it is a good exercise to periodically go back and review the end of the earth predictions from the past. The discussion never changes, only the dates and a willingness to exchange cooling to warming to

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More Evidence that Deep-State EPA Bureaucrats Aren’t Giving Up

Just in case you wondered whether deep-state bureaucrats at the federal Environmental Protection Agency had finally been brought under control, accountable to the people through their elected President and the EPA Administrator he appoints and the Senate that confirms the appointment, the answer is “No.” Cause of Action Institute announced yesterday that it has discovered

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California’s High-speed Rail Won’t Solve Climate Change—or Move Many People, Either

One of the greatest absurdities of the so-called Green New Deal proposed then backed away from by socialist-inclined Democrats, is the idea that the nation’s  transportation needs can be met by building high-speed rail everywhere – and getting rid of cars and airplanes. This utopian nonsense supposedly is rooted in a desire to “do something

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