The Ugly Truth Is Out: Climate Scientists Want Power

Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash The Guardian reports U.N. climate scientists are finally saying the quiet part out loud: they want the authority to prescribe specific climate policies and the ability to track or monitor the compliance of the 195 nations that are signatories to the Paris climate agreement with those prescriptions or mandates. Per […]

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New paper submission: Urban heat island effects in U.S. summer temperatures, 1880-2015

This is the first of a series of articles in which Cornwall Alliance board member and senior fellow Dr. Roy W. Spencer explains the importance of distinguishing urban heat island effect from global temperature increase and of recognizing that by choosing to live in warmer regions of the world and in cities rather than in

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Brewing Truth: Climate Doomsayers’ Cooked up Coffee Crisis

Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Every day, people across the world wake up to news about climate change affecting their lives. With the seeming randomness of a capricious roulette wheel, the doomsday clique of the climate world daily selects a fresh topic to sow seeds of anxiety among the populace. Popular things easily recognized —

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World Leaders Ignore Growing Safety Issues with Green Energy

The nations of the world are pursuing an unprecedented energy transition. Efforts are underway to force a shift from coal, oil, and natural gas to renewable energy sources by 2050. However, key elements of the proposed transition suffer from major safety issues. These are batteries for electric vehicles and electricity storage and hydrogen fuels for

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Electric Truck Conundrums

The California GREEN movement, at any cost, is progressing at warp speed. Image: Creative Commons via Unsplash Earlier this year, California passed regulations that would turn the trucking industry upside down. Zero emission mandates would disrupt the industry, raise shipping costs, and put trucking companies out of business. A group including 19 states and several

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Beijing’s Coal Boom Is Here to Stay

News of record installations of so-called renewable energy electric generation in China may have kindled the hopes of those supporting the “green” agenda and hostile to fossil fuels. However, China is in no position to give up hydrocarbons, particularly coal. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash During the first half of 2023, China approved 52 gigawatts

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Bad Climate Data Brings Wrong Conclusions

Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Two new internationally peer-reviewed studies published in major scientific journals have documented misleading Northern Hemisphere temperature data and attribution analyses indicating inadequate considerations of Urban Heat Island (UHI) influences on climate records and dominant influences of the sun in producing warming and cooling changes. Published in August by the journal Climate,

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