Methane Monster—Not

Been hearing about the methane monster that’s going to cook the planet? The Independent, Salon, Mother Jones, Alternet, Arctic News, and the Arctic Methane Emergency Group have all trumpeted it, and the methane message becomes the more dire as we approach Paris, with 5-alarm fires raging at TruthOut and Real News Network. Irreversible positive feedback loop: warming Arctic releases methane that warms […]

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Climate Change Industry Doesn’t Live on Chicken Feed

For all those climate alarmists who are up in arms about what they consider the billions of dollars supposedly supporting CAGW skeptics, here’s a bit of reality therapy: The money supporting alarmism amounts to about $1.5 TRILLION a year, according to an expensive 200 page report on the climate change consulting market that came out

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It’s Official: July 2015 Is, and Isn’t, the Hottest Month on Record!

NOAA breathlessly reports, “July 2015 was warmest month ever recorded for the globe.” CNN, USA Toady—oops, that’s USA Today—, BBC, and lots of other mainstream media lapdogs all obediently reported it. But laymen need to pause for a deep breath before panicking. First, “ever recorded” means back to 1880 (conveniently leaving out the Holocene Climate Optimum,

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A Mere Couple of Degrees, a Mere Single Thermometer–and a Matter of Integrity

Climatologist Patrick Michaels detected an error in the temperature record at Reagan National Airport recently, and reported it to the Washington Post‘s Capital Weather Gang, which confirmed the error and duly reported it to the National Weather Service, which acknowledged the error and replaced the instrument (which for the last year and a half has been

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Extra! Extra! Missing AGW Intensifies California Drought!

The Old Gray Lady‘s (aka New York Times) perennial climate alarmist reporter Justin Gillis eagerly reported a new paper, “Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012-2014,” published in Geophysical Research Letters, claiming that anthropogenic global warming (AGW) might have intensified the current California drought by 15 to 20 percent. Alas, nasty facts get in the way,

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Focusing on Low Carbon Development to curb climate change will hurt cities

In addition to economic growth, should improving the climate be an important goal of government policy? The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate offers ten recommendations designed to help countries of all income levels achieve these two goals. Their first recommendation is that cities “commit to developing and implementing low-carbon urban development strategies by

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Is John Cook, 97% Consensus Author, an Identity Thief?

As “everybody knows”—hey, even President Obama lectured us on the fact!—97% of all scientists agree: global warming is real and dangerous, and we must take drastic steps to stop it. The “researcher” behind that claim is University of Western Australia psychology postgraduate John Cook, whose “study”  has been torn to shreds for bad data handling,

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