Trump’s Decision to Downplay Climate Change Could Save $Billions

Climate-change hysteria is the primary rationale for switching from abundant, affordable, reliable energy from fossil fuels to diffuse, expensive, unreliable “renewable energy from wind, solar, geothermal, biofuels, etc. It’s also a main driver of failure after failure, often wasting millions or even billions in taxpayer dollars. That’s one of many reasons to cheer this report from

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MIT Scientists Vie for Influence with the White House

Cornwall Alliance Contributing Writer Charles Clough—a veteran meteorologist as well as a theologian, pastor, and graduate of MIT—supports a call by MIT Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science Richard Lindzen for the U.S. to leave the U.N Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris climate agreement, and explains why a group of MIT professors who

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How Ideologues Abuse Power in Professional Associations—Exhibit A: AMS Letter to Pruitt

By now everybody knows that the national academies of science of the world’s top countries, and various professional scientific associations, and in short all people with brains firmly believe that human emissions of carbon dioxide have been the primary driver of global warming/climate change for the past half century. But what most people don’t know

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Why the U.S. Should Clexit and Pexit—Exit UNFCCC and Paris Climate Treaty

As a candidate Donald Trump promised to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate treaty/aka agreement if elected President. Now he’s reported to be wavering. The Wall Street Journal editorial team gives him good reasons not only to Pexit (exit Paris) but also to Clexit (exit the whole international climate negotiation institution, the U.N. Framework

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Second Warmest February in 123 Years for Contiguous U.S.—Ho Hum

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) eagerly reported March 8 that February was the second warmest February in the last 123 years for the contiguous U.S. Various news media played it up. More evidence of dangerous, manmade global warming! (Except that of course warming is only evidence of warming, not of manmade warming. And the

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A step toward restoring civility to climate-change debates?

For years people like Al Gore, Robert Kennedy Jr., John Cook, and others have labeled those who question one or another aspect of the case for belief in dangerous human-induced climate change as “science deniers,” “climate deniers,” “environmental criminals,” and worse. Such rhetoric is far from helpful not only because it demonizes, making respectful dialogue difficult

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Greenpeace lies about forest destruction

The radical environmentalist group Greenpeace has been claiming that a Canadian company, Resolute Forest Products, has caused extensive forest loss. Resolute sued for defamation and, in court proceedings, offered convincing that it had caused no forest loss whatever. Greenpeace’s reply? As summarized by Resolute President and CEO Richard Garneau, its “accusations against Resolute were ‘hyperbole,’

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