Congratulations to Jim Bridenstine, New NASA Administrator—It’s about Time!

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Seven months ago I wrote about why Congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), nominated to be the new administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was well qualified and, in a saner world, should have been confirmed quickly. Yesterday, at last, the well-deserved confirmation finally happened—albeit along strict party lines—after the vote had been delayed for […]

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Steering clear of climate alarm: climate change alarmists should chill on Earth Day 2018

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Sunday, April 22 will mark the 48th anniversary of Earth Day. A lot of concern about the planet’s future was generated back then and a passionate movement was launched that endures to this day. But much has changed since 1970 when the Earth was in a substantial cooling trend. Today, of course, the angst is over

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When Rice is Worth Gold: Legalization of Golden Rice in the Fight against Poverty

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Golden Rice was declared safe for consumption by Canada recently. This has huge implications for the rest of the world, where Golden Rice can be vital resource in tackling vitamin A deficiency and malnutrition. Genetically modified (GM) crops are engineered to display traits that are otherwise absent or subdued in natural crops. For example, gene modification results

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A Warming Solution that Just Might Work—But Not as Planned?

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Los Angeles has a new solution to climate change: painting streets white. Well, not quite a solution to climate change. What it really addresses is what’s called the “urban heat island” (UHI) effect. Cities and towns, with lots of blacktop streets, absorb more energy from sunlight than rural areas, so their ambient air temperatures (especially

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What Really Brought about the Population Collapse on Easter Island?

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For years people around the world, swayed mostly by Jared Diamond’s book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, have thought Easter Island—2,300 miles west of the coast of Chile—suffered a population crash because its people used up its resources (chiefly palm trees) faster than they could be renewed. I haven’t known what to think,

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Maybe ‘exceptional’ weather is just weather

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Perhaps the best challenge to the hysterical claims that humans are causing unusual climate change is the demonstration that “exceptional” weather events can be predicted in advance based on their natural occurrence in history. One person who has admirably met this challenge with consistent, convincing demonstrations is meteorologist and forecaster extraordinaire Joe Bastardi.  Bastardi – formerly

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Who Are the Real Science Deniers? It’s a Given

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A little etymology lesson: data derives from the Latin, dare (pronounced DAH-ray), “to give,” and means “given.” (Back when I took Latin, it was typically the second verb the conjugation of which one learned. The first was amo, “I love,” the infinitive form of which is amare.) Data means “given.” In the natural sciences, it’s supposed to mean what

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Listen in: Vijay Jayaraj Tells the Truth About Climate Change

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Cornwall Alliance Researcher for Developing Countries Vijay Jayaraj was interviewed on the Wayne Allyn Root Show about the common climate change misconceptions propagated by the media. Misconception 1: Humans are causing catastrophic climate change. Reality: While humans may be causing some warming, it is so small as to be undetectable, and certainly will not be

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

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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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