Climate Fearmongering Reaches Stratospheric Heights

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A new paper by Santer et al., provocatively entitled “Exceptional stratospheric contribution to human fingerprints on atmospheric temperature,” goes where no serious climate scientist should go: it has conflated stratospheric cooling with global warming. The paper starts out summarizing the supposed importance of their work, which is worth quoting in its entirety (bold emphasis added): […]

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It’s Hard to Keep Special Interests Happy, But the Government Keeps Trying

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The following is a guest article by Jane Shaw Stroup. Chances are, you haven’t heard of RFS, RINs, eRINs, RVOs, or maybe even RNG. I hadn’t. But if you are part of the agricultural and waste-industry interests that promote “biofuels,” you know all about them. They are the means by which fuel generated by corn,

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UN’s Climate Panic is More Politics Than Science

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The following is a guest article from Judith Curry. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a new Synthesis Report, with fanfare from the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres:  “The climate time-bomb is ticking but the latest IPCC report shows that we have the knowledge & resources to tackle the climate crisis.  We

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Epic Fail in America’s Heartland: Climate Models Greatly Overestimate Corn Belt Warming

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For the last decade, I’ve been providing long-range U.S. Corn Belt forecasts to a company that monitors and forecasts global grain production and market forces. My continuing theme has been, “don’t believe gloom and doom forecasts for the future of the U.S. Corn Belt.” The climate models relied upon by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel

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Global Warming Causes More Home Runs? Another Claim Strikes Out

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Fourteen years ago Nicolas Loris, writing for The Daily Signal, wrote, “Global Warming Ate My Homework: 100 Things Blamed on Global Warming.” Included in the list were such things as a surge in fatal shark attacks, tornado deaths among Boy Scouts, snowfall in Baghdad, an airliner crash, the Black Hawk Down incident, cougar attacks, different-tasting beer,

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The European War On Food Ignores Water Pollution

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According to the World Health Organization, 31 million Europeans have no access to public sanitation, and 48 million do not have piped water at home. At least 300,000 Europeans follow San Francisco’s practice of defecating openly – but in the countryside rather than on public streets. But just as in the United States, water quality has

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Proposed EPA Power Plant Rule Could Intensify Reliability Challenges

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The Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA) condemned the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed new rule that would make it almost impossible for coal-fired power plants to continue in operation, stating that implementing the rule would simultaneously drive up costs and drive down reliability of America’s electric grid. Following is the EPSA’s press release from May

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