Climate Catastrophism Causes Candidate Catastrophes

Voters were not kind to climate-change campaigners in the midterm elections November 6. Basic summary: The two highest-profile climate initiatives failed. Republicans in Congress’s “Climate Solutions Caucus” suffered defeats: of 43 members, 11 lost (including Republican caucus leader Carlos Curbelo), 3 appear likely to lose in races not yet called, 1 lost in a primary […]

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How Do Hard Data and Computer Climate Models’ Dire Predictions Compare?

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman explained “the key to science” this way: In general we look for a new law by the following process. First we guess it. Then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what would be implied if this law that we guessed is right. Then we compare the result

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Ah, the Complexities of Liberal Environmentalism!

Laugh? Scream? Cry? What’s the proper reaction to a letter from liberal Democratic Senators Charles Schumer (NY), Maria Cantwell (WA), Ed Markey (MA), and Robert Menendez (NJ) to President Donald Trump decrying the harm rising gasoline prices does to American families. (It’s always about the family, you know! Whatever a “family” might be.) All four Senators

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Insect-borne Diseases Spreading in the United States? Blame EPA, Not Exxon

Last fall Politico ran a special feature on global health that featured a graphic presentation of increased incidence of insect-borne diseases in the United States from 2004 to 2013, blaming the increase on global warming. “Warming global temperatures are changing the range and behavior of disease-carrying insects like mosquitos and ticks and extending the seasons in

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#SanFranciscoKnew—What Did San Francisco Know about Climate Change, and When Did It Know It?

David Johnson, who follows us on Facebook, brought our attention to this article, which demonstrates that some California cities, including San Francisco, which with Oakland is suing five major oil companies including ExxonMobil, alleging that the companies suppressed from their stockholders what they knew about the risks of climate change to their stocks’ future value,

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Forget Climate Change, Defend America!

George Orwell, call your office. In what Huffington Post‘s Alexander Kaufman called “an Orwellian rhetorical shift away from a scientific reality,” the Department of Defense “scrubbed its latest National Defense Strategy of all references to climate change.” In all likelihood, Orwell would call the 30-year campaign for climate alarmism—with all its oxymoronic appeals to “scientific consensus,”

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Monckton Writes to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on Clean Power Plan

We’re delighted that our friend Viscount Christopher Monckton, one of the leading critics of climate alarmism, allowed us to publish this letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, with which we wholeheartedly agree. We encourage citizens to make their own opinions known to Administrator Pruitt. By the way, what comes out of the

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After 20 Years, No New Global Temperature Record

[The article below by Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Dr. Roy W. Spencer, reprinted from his blog by permission, reports that the linear warming trend from 1970–2017 was 0.13 deg. C per decade. The computer climate models on which the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the negotiators

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Blessing or Curse? The Curious Case of Carbon Dioxide

In recent decades, select groups of scientists and politicians have blamed carbon dioxide (CO2) — a greenhouse gas — for increasing global temperatures to dangerous levels. Is CO2 really destroying our planet? CO2 is an odorless, invisible, trace gas in the atmosphere that acts as an important source of life for everything that lives on

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