The Version 6.1 global area-averaged temperature trend (January 1979 through January 2025)remains at +0.15 deg/ C/decade (+0.22 C/decade over land, +0.13 C/decade over oceans). Source: Dr. Roy SpencerSo, does carbon dioxide warm the Earth, or doesn’t it? Are extreme weather events getting more frequent and severe, or aren’t they? Why is there so much confusion about these things? Today I’m going to answer a question someone posed on our website.The questioner, who apparently lives in the United … [Read more...]
Paper Exposes Pseudoscience Behind Methane War on Farmers
Methane emissions have become a focal point of the climate debate, triggering absurd agricultural regulations negatively affecting farming communities worldwide. Targets for abuse are ruminant animals, including cattle and sheep, that produce methane (CH4) through enteric fermentation – a natural digestive process that converts grass into protein-rich meat and milk for human consumption.Even farmers from my family in India are possible targets of anti-methane assaults on agriculture that have … [Read more...]
Bring realism, not idealism, to science
The new Trump administration is delivering huge changes in the way the federal government operates. One expected result is for the conduct of science programs to reflect realism rather than idealism or political beliefs. This expectation needs to be fulfilled quickly to improve the public’s perception of, confidence in, and acceptance of government policies that must be based on solid scientific foundations. Public trust in government edicts that are ostensibly … [Read more...]
Public Abandons Doomsday Cult for Climate Realism and Practical Environmentalism
For years, climate activists like Al Gore and John Kerry have made bold, headline-grabbing predictions that have failed to materialize. Gore’s 2007 assertion that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013 stands in stark contrast to reality: Arctic ice has not disappeared despite seasonal fluctuations, and Antarctica sea ice has rebounded from record low levels.Similarly, Kerry’s repeated warnings of impending catastrophe have lacked grounding in observable data. Teenage activist Greta Thunberg’s … [Read more...]
Los Angeles Burns and Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass Fiddle
A half century of disastrous wildfires and flawed land-management policies bring disaster home to Angelenos.Seems only yesterday, doesn’t it, the massive Camp fire (2018) killed 80 Californians and laid waste to some 150,000 acres of northern California. Closer to LA, the 2017 Woolsey fire burned over much of the same areas back in 2017, another big wildfire once again devastating Malibu and Pacific Palisades this week. The earlier fires should have served warning for elected officials … [Read more...]
The California Fires Were Not Caused By Climate Change
The following is a guest article by Chris Martz.To Senator Sanders:Hi there Colonel Sanders. Do you like facts? I hope you do, because you’re about to be sacked with some. Here we go. . . First, climate change does not cause forest fires. That isn’t how this works. Fires require an ignition source and fuel. Ignition sources may be natural (e.g., lightning) or it can be man-made (e.g., by accident from improperly disposed cigarette butts, improperly discarded pellet / wood … [Read more...]
Gases from Asthma Inhalers Cause Negligible Warming
The following is a guest article by Frits Byron Soepyan. If you prefer to read this document as a Word file, one is attached. Abstract Various educational and medical institutions, as well as policymakers, have expressed concerns regarding the use of metered-dose inhalers to prevent or treat shortness of breath associated with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as these inhalers use hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are greenhouse gases, as propellants. In response, … [Read more...]
Scientific Societies Err on ‘Climate Change’
Major scientific organizations’ statements on “climate change” and the conclusions therein form the basis of much of the scientific foundation for governmental, scientific, media, and public concerns on the use of fossil fuels. Trillions of public and private dollars are currently being spent on alternative fuels to “save the planet” from the alleged harm of increasing CO2, a gas which is vital for life on earth. If the evaluations of these societies are erroneous, these measures could … [Read more...]
Assigning Responsibility for the Tragic Los Angeles Fires
First understand Southern California is naturally dry. Its Mediterranean climate means it rarely rains in the summer and has a limited winter rainy season. Three deserts in the region attest to its dry climate. As a result, the vegetation around Los Angeles primarily consists of one-hour fuels that can dry in as little as 60 minutes, including dead grasses, leaves and pine needles, and 10-hour fuels that include dead small branches, 1/4 inch to 1 inch in diameter. Able to retain moisture … [Read more...]
Illinois Electricity: Subsidies, Mandates, Inflation
“If Illinois wants an affordable and reliable grid, the answer is to end subsidies and mandates for all forms of generation. And to eliminate regulations that are taking the most affordable and reliable fuels out of the generation mix. Nothing else will work.”Electricity prices are climbing in Illinois. As is the public’s concern about them. To address this, Governor JB Pritzker and governors from four other states recently asked the PJM Interconnection to do something about the … [Read more...]
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