Human-induced Global Warming—A Little, or a Lot?

Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Roy W. Spencer’s monthly graph of global lower atmosphere temperature anomaly for March 2017 shows we’re still cooling from the super-El Nino that so warmed 2016. Track your eye straight left from the farthest-right point and you’ll see that there’s little change from the anomalies of roughly 2001–2006, and of course […]

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Environmentalists Vow to Fight Trump in the Streets Over Climate Policy

If you pay attention to news sources outside the typical conservative camp, you’ll have noticed two things in the last couple days: First the titles are all ridiculous in their alarmism (we are all going to die, etc. etc. etc.). Second, that impending doom is solely due to President Donald J. Trump’s recent executive order

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Trump’s Rollback of EPA Overreach: What No One is Talking About

President Trump’s actions yesterday (March 28) to rein in the EPA on a number of fronts involves the usual tension between environment and prosperity. Trump has rightly asserted that we can have both a relatively clean environment and prosperity, but this falls on deaf ears in the environmental community. His actions are painted as Republican’s

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Why Does ExxonMobil Want the U.S. to Stay in the Paris Climate Accord?

The Financial Times reports that ExxonMobil “has written to the Trump administration urging it to keep the US in the Paris climate accord ….” Why? The main reason is that staying in the Paris accord offers “the opportunity to support greater use of natural gas, which creates lower carbon dioxide emissions than coal when burnt for power generation.”

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Trump’s Energy Independence Order: A Boon To America And The Environment

President Trump’s “Executive Order on Energy Independence” will save the American people hundreds of billions of dollars every year that would have been wasted on purely symbolic efforts under former President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” and other regulations. Former President Barack Obama justified those regulations by claiming they would reduce global warming. But in reality,

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Nobel physicist Ivar Giaever’s classic lecture on global warming

To answer a question sent to the Cornwall Alliance, I re-watched, today, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Ivar Giaever’s outstanding lecture debunking the idea that carbon dioxide is driving unprecedented global warming and was reminded just how brilliant it is. Despite the passage of nearly two years, it remains highly persuasive. Watch it for yourself. If

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Trump’s Decision to Downplay Climate Change Could Save $Billions

Climate-change hysteria is the primary rationale for switching from abundant, affordable, reliable energy from fossil fuels to diffuse, expensive, unreliable “renewable energy from wind, solar, geothermal, biofuels, etc. It’s also a main driver of failure after failure, often wasting millions or even billions in taxpayer dollars. That’s one of many reasons to cheer this report from

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MIT Scientists Vie for Influence with the White House

Cornwall Alliance Contributing Writer Charles Clough—a veteran meteorologist as well as a theologian, pastor, and graduate of MIT—supports a call by MIT Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science Richard Lindzen for the U.S. to leave the U.N Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris climate agreement, and explains why a group of MIT professors who

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How Ideologues Abuse Power in Professional Associations—Exhibit A: AMS Letter to Pruitt

By now everybody knows that the national academies of science of the world’s top countries, and various professional scientific associations, and in short all people with brains firmly believe that human emissions of carbon dioxide have been the primary driver of global warming/climate change for the past half century. But what most people don’t know

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Why the U.S. Should Clexit and Pexit—Exit UNFCCC and Paris Climate Treaty

As a candidate Donald Trump promised to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate treaty/aka agreement if elected President. Now he’s reported to be wavering. The Wall Street Journal editorial team gives him good reasons not only to Pexit (exit Paris) but also to Clexit (exit the whole international climate negotiation institution, the U.N. Framework

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