The twenty-second session of the United Nation’s climate change conference ended a few days ago in Marrakech, Morocco, and the proclamation went forth that the conference “successfully demonstrated to the world that the implementation of the Paris Agreement is underway and the constructive spirit of multilateral cooperation on climate change continues.” All “well and good,” but with the incoming skeptical Trump train, the trundling of the Marrakech Express is going to become a bit more … [Read more...]
Why Trump Should Fire the Paris Climate Treaty
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 how the U.S. Obama Administration intends intended to achieve its “Intended Nationally Determined … [Read more...]
Global Warming: Policy Hoax versus Dodgy Science
By Dr. Roy Spencer In the early 1990s I was visiting the White House Science Advisor, Sir Prof. Dr. Robert Watson, who was pontificating on how we had successfully regulated Freon to solve the ozone depletion problem, and now the next goal was to regulate carbon dioxide, which at that time was believed to be the sole cause of global warming. I was a little amazed at this cart-before-the-horse approach. It really seemed to me that the policy goal was being set in stone, and now the … [Read more...]
The Phony War Against CO2
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 dangerous environmental pollutants have been cleaned up. U.S. emissions of particulates, metals and varied gases—all of these: ozone, lead, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen … [Read more...]
Meeting God in Sandstone and Song
I have had countless, profound experiences of the Earth’s environment, from fleeting moments to periods of months-long duration and from my earliest years of life to the present. One of my earliest life memories, at four years of age in 1959 while on summer vacation, is of looking out of the window of the family car at the golden rolling hills of central California near Paso Robles, with the umbrella-shaped oak trees scattered across the landscape and the dry but heavy heat beating into the … [Read more...]
DiCaprio’s Titanic Failure: Did “Before the Flood” Sink on Maiden Voyage?
Early in Leonardo DiCaprio’s Before the Flood, which aired Sunday night on the National Geographic Channel, we see a clip of DiCaprio speaking before the U.N. General Assembly, saying, “I stand before you not as an expert.” That’s the most credible line in the movie. And the least credible may be one that follows almost immediately: “I want to do everything I can to learn more about this issue.” If he’d really meant that, he might have gone to the trouble to speak to some of the … [Read more...]
“Climate Science” Warned Us: More & Stronger Hurricanes Coming! Climate Didn’t Get the Message
On September 9, 2005, with much of New Orleans submerged by the failure of fifty levees and flood walls after Hurricane Katrina (category 1 at landfall) dumped 8 to 10 inches of rain, former Vice President Al Gore told the Sierra Club's National Environmental Convention and Expo in San Francisco: Ladies and gentlemen, the warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. ... Last year we had a lot of hurricanes. ... The scientists … [Read more...]
Mother Theresa, the Environment, and the Poor in India
"Early this month, Mother Theresa was canonized as Saint Theresa by Pope Francis in a celebrated canonization ceremony in Vatican City. At this juncture, the same poor people in Calcutta (now Kolkata), whom she served with her life, face a different kind of threat to their lives—energy poverty caused by radical environmental policies. Sadly, these policies are supported by Pope Francis himself..." Read the full article at the Earth Rising Blog. … [Read more...]
Hurricane Matthew—A Grateful Retrospect
Two days ago, anticipating what government and media forecasters predicted could be a Category 3 or 4 hurricane's visit to my home in south Florida, just north of Miami and seventeen miles from the coast, I wrote a brief blog piece about my preparations. Immediately afterward, I left the keyboard and started the long, hot, laborious, and sometimes dangerous job of installing hurricane shutters. That took the remaining five or six daylight hours, during which I, with help from a young man who … [Read more...]
Preparing for Hurricane Matthew in South Florida
Hurricane Matthew has just passed over the east end of Cuba and is headed now for the Bahamas and then Florida. Depending on the track of the center of the storm, my family and I, living just north of Miami, could experience anything from tropical storm force winds (39 to 73 mph) to Category 4 hurricane winds (130 to 156 mph). I'm rather expecting something in the high Category 1 to low Category 3 range (90 to 115 mph). Whatever, it's likely to be dangerous. The winds and rains (likely 4 to 7 … [Read more...]
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