It’s that time of year again, when we are subjected to exaggerated climate claims such as in this Forbes article, 2019 Wraps Up The Hottest Decade In Recorded Human History. Given that the global average surface temperature is about 60 deg. F, and most of the climate protesters we see in the news are wearing more clothing than the average Key West bar patron, I would think that journalists striving for accuracy would use a more accurate term than “hottest”. So, I am announcing … [Read more...]
Principled Inaction in the Face of Climate Change Extremism
For the next two weeks, delegates from nearly 200 countries and 29,000 visitors will be convening in Madrid for a summit on climate change. The 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, “COP25,” began with a cryptic address by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres: “By the end of the coming decade we will be on one of two paths, one of which is sleepwalking past the point of no return … Do we want to be remembered as the generation that buried its head in the sand and fiddled as the … [Read more...]
Go Ahead and Eat Your Beef
No doubt you've heard that raising cattle (for beef or any other purpose) contributes to global warming because the critters have the nasty habit of emitting methane by belching and---well, what they do from the other end. A new paper by our friends Will Happer and W.A. van Wyngaarden at the CO2 Coalition quantifies global methane emissions' warming effect and finds it negligible. Each methane atom has about 30 times the heat (infrared) absorption capacity of each molecule of CO2, causing … [Read more...]
When Winter Knocks Early: Don’t Let Climate Madness Trick You
Winter arrived early this year for many parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Winter has arrived early this year for many parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Much of the U.S. is forecasted to experience record cold temperatures this week. Reports indicate that most states have a high chance of experiencing below-freezing temperatures in this week, as much as 10 degrees (Fahrenheit) lower than the usual lows. Last month, the forecasts for Halloween week did come true as Milwaukee, WI … [Read more...]
2019 Year in Review
2019 has been an exciting year in our ministry, with much change, and many new opportunities. We have revamped our organization with complete legal independence as our goal. As many of you know we have until this point been a project of another 501(c)(3). We are so excited to announce that we have received our 501(c)(3) determination from the IRS and complete organizational independence will be fully realized in early 2020! In addition to this massive undertaking (and I mean massive … [Read more...]
Climate Models vs Observations: 2019 Update
Back around 2014 many people, me included, were commenting on the discrepancy between climate models and observations. In a report for the Fraser Institute I showed the following graph: The HadCRUT4 series (black) was then dipping below the 95% lower bound of the model distribution. The IPCC itself in the 5th Assessment Report (2013) noted that out of 114 model runs, 111 had overstated observed warming since the late 1990s. That same year, Hans von Storch told Der Spiegel that If things … [Read more...]
Gregory Wrightstone debates about climate change at Cornell University
Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow and Contributing Writer Gregory Wrightstone, author of Inconvenient Facts: The science that Al Gore doesn't want you to know, debated climate change at Cornell University November 13. The event was lively and respectful, with encouraging outcomes. Here is Greg's report: On November 13, I had a unique opportunity to debate Dr. Charles Greene, Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and a Fellow at the David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at … [Read more...]
No, Hurricanes Are Not Bigger, Stronger and More Dangerous
Guest contribution by Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., formerly Professor of Environmental Studies and now director of the Sports Governance Center in the Department of Athletics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters & Climate Change and other books. Earlier this week a paper published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by a team of authors led by Aslak Grinsted, a scientist who studies ice sheets at the … [Read more...]
Climate change: a first-world problem?
Ever heard of “first world problems”? Like home Internet quitting for 15 minutes? Bad mobile signal? Online deliveries arriving late? Can’t fast-forward live TV? A closet full of clothes but “nothing to wear”? Sitting near an infant on a flight to Bali? Chipped nail polish? My quick survey suggests that, at least for Christians in developing countries, climate change/global warming is a “first world problem.” Sure, the politicians and bureaucrats in other countries care about climate … [Read more...]
Rising sea level, higher storm surges, milder winters, oh my!
Today's email brought this from someone recently returned from a cruise along the coasts of New England and Canada: I think I heard at least two, maybe three, of the Canadian tour guides make comments regarding global warming. They are fully convinced that it is happening and that it is having a drastic effect on sea levels. They commented about eighteenth-century ship-tying rings that are now three feet underwater. They mentioned storm surges that are higher lately than … [Read more...]
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