Global Warming Alarmist Makes Bogus Challenge to Skeptics

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The brilliant Progressives over at the Daily Kos are all atwitter about the bold wager of $10,000 offered by physicist Dr. Christopher Keating to anyone who can “prove, via the scientific method, that man-made global climate change is not occurring.” Wow! It’s put-up or shut-up time for climate skeptics like us at the Cornwall Alliance, right? Ten grand ripe for the picking!All […]

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Climate Cultists: Has the desperate global warming crusade reached its Waterloo?

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Cornwall Note: Published in the Weekly Standard, Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Dr. Steven Hayward hits it out of the park. (Be sure to click through to read pages 2 and 3.) As always, Steve has done his homework–and put things very clearly. After reading this, in its entirety, you’ll almost certainly know the science of climate change,

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“Climate Science”? Or Irrational Thuggery

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When Dr. Lennart Bengtsson, one of the world’s leading meteorologists who had for years warned people of dangerous, manmade global warming, began to publish his doubts because observed temperatures weren’t rising anywhere near as fast as the computer climate models predicted, some of his former “comrades in alarms” got upset. When the veteran Swedish climate scientist agreed

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End Federal Ethanol Policy’s Harm to the Poor and the Environment

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To borrow a phrase from another debate (where it is misused), the science is settled. So is the economics. As Peter Suderman points out, the federal Environmental Protection Agency proposes reducing from 18.5 billion to 15.2 billion gallons the amount of renewable fuel (essentially, ethanol, almost all from corn) it requires refiners to mix into total U.S. gasoline

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What’s Wrong with Latest National Climate Assessment? Dr. Roy Spencer Sounds Off

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The national media have been abuzz since the release of the Obama Administration’s highly politicized National Climate Assessment (NCA) Tuesday. A typical report, in USA Today, began this way:  Devastating droughts in the Southwest, ruinous floods in New York City, killer wildfires in Colorado, intense heat waves in the Plains: These are the some of the disasters that are

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VIDEO: Senator Sessions Grills EPA Nominee in Confirmation Hearing

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One almost feels pity for Janet McCabe under grueling questioning by Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL). It’s clear she knows—well, pretty much nothing relevant about the science of climate change. Maybe we shouldn’t expect much scientific knowledge from her, though. She’s not a scientist. (Remember that next time someone tries to silence you on global warming

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Climate Hubs Stepping Stone To Broader Climate Legislation

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The Obama Administration decided last month that it would placate the “Green” lobby by telling our nation’s farmers how to do their job. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the creation of seven Regional Climate Hubs for Risk Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change. These Hubs match climate change knowledge with local farmers using current networks

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Obama Budget Includes Wish List for Climate Change Spending

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While the United States is in debt $17.5 trillion, the Obama Administration proposes a budget that increases spending! Tuesday, March 4, President Obama revealed his Fiscal Year 2015 Budget, his wish-list for next year. It has already been derided by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, but that doesn’t make it irrelevant. It signals the goals of the

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