Trump’s NOAA Administrator Must Address the Temperature Record Controversy

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An article appeared in the Washington Post yesterday entitled, “Who Will Lead NOAA Under President Trump?“. Written by the Capitol Weather Gang’s Jason Samenow, it lists three top contenders: Scott Rayder, senior adviser for development and partnerships at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Barry Myers, chief executive of AccuWeather in State College, Pa. Jonathan […]

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Tillerson Gets It: Nothing Lifts People Out of Poverty Quicker than Electricity

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ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, nominated by President-elect Donald J. Trump to become Secretary of State, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday, January 11, said clearly, concisely, and powerfully something that’s been a key part of the Cornwall Alliance’s message for years: Nothing lifts people out of poverty quicker than electricity.

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Snarky—But Right

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Okay, so most of the time here at the Cornwall Alliance we try to keep our language entirely civil, to avoid both formal and informal fallacies, and just stick to true premises and valid inferences to support our conclusions. Rational, yes. Entertaining? Well, not always. And in today’s America, lots of people—at least if their

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Decision-Tree Modeling Shows Warming Mitigation Fails

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Earlier this year Cornwall Alliance Contributing Writer Michael Cochrane published an important piece showing that, even assuming high probability that climate alarmists are right about the magnitude of anthropogenic global warming, mitigation is a poor response. Lately Kent Hawkins published a new piece at MasterResource.org that picks up on Cochrane’s piece, substitutes more realistic assumptions

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Will Trump Admin Destroy Climate Data?

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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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I’d Rather Have ROTHR: National Security vs. Wind Energy

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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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Social Cost of Carbon—Achilles Heel of Obama Climate and Energy Policy

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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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