New Observational Evidence Supports Old “Infrared Iris” Theory

About seven years ago I read a fascinating paper by Roy Spencer et al. that argued that clouds respond to Earth’s surface temperatures in ways that moderate them–cooling the surface in response to warming, warming it in response to cooling. It led me to an earlier paper by Richard Lindzen that argued that, at least in

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Obviously this Guy’s a Science Denier!

Was it a critic of the IPCC’s notion of dangerous manmade climate change who wrote this? The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for

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Why One Conservative, Evangelical Republican’s Case for Climate Alarm Fails—Part 1

Dr. Scott Rodin, chairman of the board of the Evangelical Environmental Network and a blogger at The Steward’s Journey, posted a piece May 19, 2015, titled, “As a Conservative, Evangelical Republican, Why Climate Change Can’t be True (Even Though It Is).” It has some very interesting reasoning and deserves careful consideration. In this and several

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Alabama meteorologist James Spann hits the nail on the head

In responding to news hype about the flooding in Houston (the tragedies of which we most certainly don’t want to downplay), James Spann, chief meteorologist for ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Alabama, hit the nail on the head when he wrote, … the entire climate change situation has become politicized, which I hate. Those on the

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Science Daily Mutes Main Point of Important New Study

Nature, one of the world’s premier science journals, has just published a new study showing that “proves that ocean circulation is the link between weather and decadal scale climatic change.” More important, it undermines the storyline of dangerous anthropogenic global warming so hotly promoted by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.S. Environmental

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Words Matter—and So Does Honesty

Some folks just don’t play fair. Instance? Media Matters and ForecasttheFacts.org have just teamed up to pressure the media to not to characterize scientists who doubt claims of dangerous manmade global warming as “skeptics.” Their preferred term? “Deniers.” Why? Two reasons: First, because skepticism is a scientific virtue, which they don’t want to attribute to

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NOAA Seeks to Expand Federal Oversight of Hawaiian Waters: New plan will limit use of Hawaiian coastal waters by surfers, fishermen and tourists

With the incredible recovery of humpback whales, NOAA recently proposed to delist them as an endangered species. The logical follow-up step is to dismantle the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. Instead, NOAA is moving forward with a 24 million dollar proposal to expand their focus to much more than whales, while increasing regulations

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