Guest column by Noel Funderburk Undoubtedly Al Gore made a lot of money from writing his book on “man-made” climate change. Many people and country leaders have jumped on that band wagon and are making great effort to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Our government is spending large amounts of money to trap carbon dioxide and pump it far underground where it can never be recovered. But what if they are wrong? What are the consequences? I am writing this … [Read more...]
Climate Change Did Not Cause Recent Record Heat Waves
“Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest Driven by Climate Change,” the headline in E&E News, WOWT-TV, WorldNewsNetwork, and other media outlets recently, couldn’t possibly be less scientific. With absolutely no analysis, no historical context, and nothing but conjecture, author Anne C. Mulkern, in her article for Scientific American, eschewed science for advocacy in her coverage of the brief Pacific Northwest (PNW) heat wave at the end of June. If the … [Read more...]
U.S. Power Grid At Government-Induced Tipping Point
Modern society is heavily dependent on electric power. Our power systems were designed by competent engineers and operated by skilled staff, so until fairly recently people have generally been able to count on having electricity in their homes and businesses on demand, even during periods of extreme weather. Historically, the U.S. power grid has proven remarkably resilient. Sadly, as political considerations have increasingly trumped basic physics and engineering, electric power failures have … [Read more...]
UAH Global Temperature Update for June 2021: -0.01 deg. C
The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for June, 2021 was -0.01 deg. C, down from the May, 2021 value of +0.08 deg. C. REMINDER: We have changed the 30-year averaging period from which we compute anomalies to 1991-2020, from the old period 1981-2010. This change does not affect the temperature trends. The linear warming trend since January, 1979 remains at +0.14 C/decade (+0.12 C/decade over the global-averaged oceans, and +0.18 C/decade over … [Read more...]
The “Proof” that Isn’t
Politicians, media, and environmentalists all over America are pointing to the record-breaking heat wave in America's northwest and Canada's southwest as proof of human-induced global warming. Unfortunately, localized weather and global climate aren't the same. (The affected region, very roughly 1.5 million square miles, is under 1 percent of Earth's total surface.) One cannot infer the latter from the former. As Science and Environmental Policy Project President Ken Haapala wrote in last week's … [Read more...]
Agriculture policy is a climate change witch hunt
Political debates over climate policy under the present zeitgeist of climate-change hysteria is like competing to see how many witches you can burn. This is how Professor William Happer described the situation after his recent lecture on the three greenhouse gases targeted by today’s draconian national agricultural policies. Professor Happer gave this well attended online talk to the Irish Climate Science Forum and the international CLINTEL Foundation. Innocent greenhouse … [Read more...]
Climate Models: Worse Than Nothing?
Guest column by Robert L. Bradley Jr. “Climate modeling is central to climate science….” (Stephen Koonin, below) When the history of climate modeling comes to be written in some distant future, the major story may well be how the easy, computable answer turned out to be the wrong one, resulting in overestimated warming and false scares from the enhanced (man-made) greenhouse effect. Meanwhile, empirical and theoretical evidence is mounting toward this game-changing verdict … [Read more...]
Energy Poverty Kills
Guest column by Alex Epstein Last week we looked at the need for a process of producing energy that is cheap, plentiful, and reliable—and we saw that solar and wind cannot produce cheap, reliable energy. How Germany embraced solar and wind and ended up in energy poverty Let’s take a look at this in practice. Germany is considered by some to be the best success story in the world of effective solar and wind use, and you’ll often hear that they get a large percentage of their energy from … [Read more...]
Against Environmental Anti-Humanism
Guest column by Marian Tupy On April 25, British Vogue published an article titled “Is Having a Baby in 2021 Pure Environmental Vandalism?” The author, Nell Frizzell, “worried about the sort of world” that she would bring her “child into — where we have perhaps just another 60 harvests left before our overworked soil gives out.” In the end, she decided to have a son and teach him to live within humanity’s “environmental means” and free of “the fever of consumerism.” Frizzell is … [Read more...]
Beyond Industries: Why Half a Billion Other Indians Need Fossil Fuels
India’s population is nearing 1.4 billion and plays an important role in the global economy. Industry, employing about three-fifths of the Indian workforce, and agriculture, employing the other two-fifths, are the twin engines of India’s soaring economy. Both sectors depend on fossil fuels, and the demand for fossil fuels in India is unlikely to diminish anytime soon. The agricultural sector in particular is completely dependent on fossil fuel-based crop enhancement systems. Indian … [Read more...]
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