Media are abuzz with the climate conference at Bonn. The conference seeks to strengthen the commitments made by signatories of the Paris Agreement. The UNFCCC, the wing of the United Nations responsible for ‘tackling’ climate change, has been advocating for immediate actions to mitigate what it calls Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW). The storyline at climate change conferences remains the same—a continuous clarion call to decrease carbon dioxide emissions, the greenhouse … [Read more...]
The Paris Agreement: A Fairytale’s Failure
The Paris Agreement is all set to become a massive failure. Major member states of the Paris agreement are set to miss the deadlines to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. Why is it a debacle? The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) states that the Paris Agreement’s aim is to limit the global temperature rise to below 1.5–2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, by the end of this century. To accomplish this target, it required member states to commit … [Read more...]
CO2 Increase Hysteria: Scare Tactic or Science?
Despite major political developments in Washington and Barcelona, something else managed to grab global headlines this week—a declaration of emergency because of the increase in carbon dioxide gas in the earth’s atmosphere. Mainstream media had it on their first pages. “CO2 levels in the atmosphere hit a record high in 2016,” one news website said, sourcing data from a report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that came out last week. The news articles’ primary focus was around … [Read more...]
Time to End Ethanol Mandate and Subsidies
Seven years ago Indur Goklany, an economist formerly with the U.S. Department of the Interior and associated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since its inception in 1988 as an author, expert reviewer, and U.S. delegate to the organization, concluded a thorough analysis of the effect of American biofuels policy on the world's poor with these words: ... the production of biofuels [in the U.S.] may have led to at least 192,000 additional deaths and 6.7 million additional lost … [Read more...]
Climate Science Is Changing from Alarmism to Realism
Climate science is about to make a tectonic shift. Here is why. Lately, political groups have heavily influenced climate science. Carbon dioxide emissions from anthropogenic sources such as coal plants and industries have been accused of causing a dangerous increase in global temperature. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—alarmists’ preferred source for the scientific understanding of climate change—has become a ministry of propaganda. Policies it advocates, like the … [Read more...]
Environmentalist Lobby Goes After Another Trump Nominee For Being A Christian
Remember when Bernie Sanders passionately attacked budget office nominee Russell Vought because Vought believes salvation comes only by faith in Jesus Christ—something Christianity has taught for two millennia? It looks like it’s open season for anti-Christian bigots to hunt down and destroy any Christian nominated to public office—especially if that Christian doesn’t toe the line of environmental political correctness. Forget Article 6 of the Constitution insisting “no religious Test shall … [Read more...]
Is Sea Level Rising?
Fears of accelerating sea level rise (SLR) due to anthropogenic global warming (AGW) are rampant nowadays---often the primary phenomenon in people's minds when they think of potential ill effects of AGW. The image above, created by NASA to show what lands would be inundated by a hypothetical 70-foot SLR, thought by some to be in store for "future generations" if global average temperature (GAT) rises by 2C, causing the complete melt of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, is typical of … [Read more...]
Is 2017 Really the First Year since 1850 with Two Category-4 U.S. Landfall Hurricanes?
Keeping up the (false) drumbeat that manmade global warming is causing more frequent and stronger hurricanes, lots of media outlets, following the spectacular Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, have proclaimed 2017 the first time in the 166 years of records in which two Category-4 hurricanes made landfall on the mainland United States in the same year.Among them were USA Today, PBS, Forbes, Fortune, Slate, The Daily Beast, Business Insider, New York Magazine, Townhall.com, … [Read more...]
Arctic sea ice—shrinking due to manmade global warming?
Although global warming alarmists have claimed that Arctic sea ice is diminishing rapidly---indeed, at unprecedented rates---the actual facts seem otherwise. That's the gist of a new post by Ron Clutz at Science Matters. This chart niftily sums up the facts: There was a fairly rapid increase in September Arctic sea ice extent 2007--2009, a rapid decrease 2009--2012, a huge recovery in 2013 that was sustained and even increased a bit in 2014, and then a minor decline to relative … [Read more...]
How’d you like to add a new continent of vegetation?
If we could get a whole new continent---equal to twice the size of the continental United States---of vegetation by spending, say, $100 billion, would that be a good deal? How would we go about answering that? Well, we might start by noting that the total value of crops raised in the U.S. in 2016 was about $143.4 billion. That's for one year. And it's from just about 18 percent of all U.S. land. But we're talking about adding a continent of vegetation double the size of the United … [Read more...]
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