UN Secretary-General Wrong to Blame Climate Change for Somalian Suffering

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The following is a guest article by Linnea Lueken. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently gave a speech in Somalia in which he claimed Somalia is suffering from the impacts of climate change disproportionately, specifically concerning crop production amid an ongoing regional drought. This is false. Somalia is not suffering famine and crop failures primarily due […]

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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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India’s Record Aircraft Orders Ignore Climate Goals

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Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo recently made headlines with its record-breaking order of Airbus passenger jets. The deal, worth an estimated $50 billion, is the largest single order in Airbus history. While the order for 500 of the A320neo aircraft is a major coup for Airbus, it is being termed a “setback” for climate action. It

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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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