The Los Angeles Times manages to take its usual, circuitous way around to tell us its grim story, but in the end has made my point that natural cataclysmic events like plagues, earthquakes, tsunamis, storms and rare unscheduled visits by a celestial object present a far greater, and over time, a more real and present danger to humankind than any imagined threat from gradual climate change, whether it be caused by human agency or nature. The media should be ashamed of themselves for … [Read more...]
Is Yellowstone Cauldron a Bigger Threat to Human Life than Climate Change?
The intimidating arrogance of some on Wall Street is exceeded only by the loud-mouthed climate alarmists who are misinforming them. That's about the best explanation I can come up with for a claim by JP Morgan economists David Mackie and Jessica Murray in January that Climate change threatens "human life as we know it."The massive ice sheets that define Antarctica and Greenland are going nowhere fast in the near term. That eventuality must await the end of the last great Ice Age. There may well … [Read more...]
Oil Giant Knuckles Under to Climate Alarmists—Needlessly
It's a crying shame that BP, which along with ExxonMobil and other major oil companies once made up the "Seven Sisters," has again let itself be mau-maued to the extent of caving in to demands by the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and other organizations constituting Big Enviro. It announced in February that it “is leaving the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, a lobby group for the U.S. oil and petrochemicals sector, and the Western States Petroleum Association, the largest … [Read more...]
Taken By Storm: Tried and True!
In a wonderful essay called “On the Reading of Old Books,” C.S. Lewis argued that because every age has its own blind spots, we need the perspectives of other ages to help us see our own. So he recommended reading old books.“To be sure,” he said, “the books of the future would be just as good a corrective as the books of the past, but unfortunately, we cannot get at them.” So, he advised, “It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an … [Read more...]
Are Little Quakes in Western Tennessee Precursors of “The Big One”?
The Raleigh, NC, News and Observer was on the case of “The Big One,” with a story February 4 about a cluster of tiny quakes in far western Tennessee. From the text of Ms. Simore Jasper's story I cannot find a reference to any quake larger than a magnitude 3. It remains a matter of conjecture whether the residents of Dyersburg, TN, actually felt any effects of a 2.7 or were inspired by the power of suggestion. The mentioned 1.3 quake is so weak that it could not “hit” anything at the … [Read more...]
We must fight climate extremists before they upend society
Start learning the deep details of the science and economics instead of letting extremists dictate what you’re allowed to think or say.Last year was the year the climate issue took a sharp turn towards extremism. Let’s hope 2020 is the year sanity makes a comeback.There have long been three groups occupying the climate issue. To avoid pejoratives, I will call them A, B and C.The A group are the doubters. They don’t believe greenhouse gases (GHGs) do much harm and they don’t support expensive … [Read more...]
The Green New Fascist Deal
The “Green New Deal” is a fascist utopian plan written by environmentalist lawyers that is purportedly designed to tackle the global warming apocalypse which capitalism, particularly of the American kind drunk on fossil fuels, has precipitated through economic recklessness and colonial racism. CO2, a trace gas measured in parts per million, is the primary culprit of a semi-apocalyptic global warming crisis that can only be averted through an all-wise cadre of Democratic green lawyers. That such … [Read more...]
Cornwall Alliance’s Dr. Roy Spencer Speaks to Managers of $25 Trillion in Investments
On February 13, Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Dr. Roy W. Spencer made a presentation to about 120 senior asset managers responsible for investments totaling some $25 trillion. The thrust of his message? "NO CLIMATE CRISIS---But the 'Profits of Doom' Will Continue."Dr. Spencer, a principal research scientist in climatology at the University of Alabama, Huntsville who, with his colleague Dr. John Christy, manages NASA's satellite global temperature measuring program and is the U.S. Science Team … [Read more...]
The Dirty Big Secret: ‘Clean, Renewable Energy’ Is Neither
... clean nor renewable, that is.That fact came through loud and clear in an article last August by energy expert Mark Mills and co-author Alexander Ackley in The International Chronicles titled "The Destructive Myth of Green Energy: If You Want 'Renewable Energy' Get Ready to Destroy the Environment."Here are a few facts that Mills and Ackley explain and prove in detail:While wind and sunlight renew themselves, we can only derive usable energy from them by using materials that don't. That means … [Read more...]
“Hottest” January? More Globaloney Bloviating from NOAA and the Media
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on February 13 issued a press release claiming "January 2020 was Earth’s hottest January on record." Predictably, mainstream media trumpeted the news. ABC's treatment was typical.Some thoughts on ABC's report---which are generally applicable to the press release and other media coverage as well:For an indication of just how sloppily people think about this issue, compare the URL … [Read more...]
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