“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”—Yogi Berra

In his 1968 book The Population Bomb Paul Ehrlich predicted mass famines in America and lots of other countries around the world before 1980, and that we would run out of lots of minerals by then, too. His predictions turned out false. He remains the idol of environmentalists worldwide. In 2007 Al Gore predicted, ““The North Polar […]

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Mitch’s Pitch for Climate Alarm—Reason, or Unreason?

Recently Rev. Mitchell Hescox, CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network, wrote an email to a pastor, who forwarded it to us. It’s a prime example of the fallacious (and worse) discourse climate alarmists often use. Here’s what Hescox wrote: I pray you will reconsider your stance on climate change. It is apparent, you have been

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How Ideologues Abuse Power in Professional Associations—Exhibit A: AMS Letter to Pruitt

By now everybody knows that the national academies of science of the world’s top countries, and various professional scientific associations, and in short all people with brains firmly believe that human emissions of carbon dioxide have been the primary driver of global warming/climate change for the past half century. But what most people don’t know

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A step toward restoring civility to climate-change debates?

For years people like Al Gore, Robert Kennedy Jr., John Cook, and others have labeled those who question one or another aspect of the case for belief in dangerous human-induced climate change as “science deniers,” “climate deniers,” “environmental criminals,” and worse. Such rhetoric is far from helpful not only because it demonizes, making respectful dialogue difficult

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This changes everything!

“Consensus” climate science has for decades assumed that the vast majority of the increase in atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (from about 280 parts per million by volume [ppmv] before the Industrial Revolution to about 400 today) has come from burning fossil fuels for energy. On that assumption, “consensus” scientists have alleged that human activity

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Does the Trump Administration Put Science in Jeopardy?

It’s hard to imagine a more thoroughly ignorant statement than this: “The discipline of science is one where the facts, once they are peer-reviewed and published in scientific journals, are fixed. They’re not open to interpretation, or at least not much.” That’s the opinion of Jeffrey Kluger and Justin Worland, writing in “How a war on

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Sierra Club pushing abortion as population control to ‘save the environment’

FOX News host Tucker Carlson interviewed the Sierra Club’s Executive Director, Michael Brune, on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Feb 2, 2017. Carlson, a former Sierra Club member himself, dove right into asking Brune the tough questions. Puzzled by some of the Sierra Club’s recent position statements on such varied topics as President Trump’s border wall, the

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The Trump Climate Dump: Why It Doesn’t Matter if Even 100% of Scientists Agree on Global Warming

Given current technologies, it makes no sense to destroy $100 Trillion in wealth this century for an unmeasurable reduction in warming. The more efficiently we can do those things, the greater humanity prospers. Affordable energy is part of that efficiency. Everything humans do requires energy. Everything. But when human prosperity suffers, people die. So, can

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Climate Science or Climate Advocacy?

For almost thirty years, I have taught climate science at three different universities. What I have observed is that students are increasingly being fed climate change advocacy as a surrogate for becoming climate science literate. This makes them easy targets for the climate alarmism that pervades America today. Earth’s climate probably is the most complicated

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