How do Climate Alarmists Appear Moderate?

Climate alarmists have long faced one uphill battle in public discourse: the very fact that they’re thought of as alarmists, embracing positions that, tested by empirical science, seem at the outer—and scary—edges of possibility. What can make them seem moderate instead? Nothing better than for one of the world’s most prominent science journals, Nature, to publish

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Rescuing Science from Itself: How to Restore Rationality to an Increasingly Irrational Endeavor

“You can give respectability to mythology if you couch your myth in sufficiently academic language.” —Dr. R.C. Sproul Who in twenty-first century America would say that “science … our one source of objective knowledge, is in deep trouble” because “much of [the] supposed knowledge” it brings us “is turning out to be contestable, unreliable, unusable,

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Why Not to Trust Wikipedia—and Search Engines—on Climate Change

The indefatigable James Delingpole, drawing on a lengthy and thoroughly documented blog post by Kenneth Richard, writing at No Tricks Zone, has a great little article exposing the intentional bias not only of Wikipedia but also of Google and other search engines when it comes to anthropogenic climate change. The gist: Wikipedia sends the global cooling

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Will France Follow Britain on Climate and European Union?

French Presidential hopeful “Nicolas Sarkozy reckons that climate change is not caused by man and that the world has far bigger problems on its hands than global warming,” as reported by The Local FR. Sarkozy was the President of France from 2007 to 2012, when he was defeated by Socialist François Hollande. He now hopes to regain

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Whom to Trust? NASA GISS, NASA, or Cornwall Alliance?

After citing a couple of Cornwall Alliance’s articles in discussion, an educator friend got this response from one of his former students: The problem with referencing the Cornwall Alliance to discredit statistics from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies is that one (the Cornwall Alliance) is a political advocacy organization with no scientific relevance while

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Louisiana’s Flooding: Brought to You by Climate Change?

Did climate change cause Louisiana’s flooding? The New York Times, Al Gore, Vox, Congressman Raul Girjálva, Chris Mooney (citing evangelical climate-alarmist darling Katharine Hayhoe) in the Washington Post, and lots of others in the mainstream media think so. But more sober voices disagree. Adam Sobel of the Earth Island Institute at Columbia University, no “climate-change

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Climate Models: Uncertain? Inaccurate? What’s the Difference? Why Does it Matter?

For years I have been pointing out that the super-sophisticated computer climate models on which the IPCC, national environment agencies, national academies of science, and of course the many climate-alarmist advocacy groups and journalists depend for their predictions of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) predict, on average, 2 to 3 times the warming actually observed

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