Ross McKitrick: ‘Believing the science’ on climate change doesn’t mean any policy goes

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Mainstream science and economics do not support much of the current climate policy agenda and certainly not the radical extremes demanded by activist groups There’s an assumption out there that if you “accept” the science of climate change, you are obliged to support drastic measures to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This is not true. […]

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Ross McKitrick: All those warming-climate predictions suddenly have a big, new problem

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One of the most important numbers in the world goes by the catchy title of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity, or ECS. It is a measure of how much the climate responds to greenhouse gases. More formally, it is defined as the increase, in degrees Celsius, of average temperatures around the world, after doubling the amount of

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Faulty Forecasts and False Climate Narrative Hold Nations Hostage

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The United States is the only major Western country that is not part of the Paris climate agreement, which seeks to restrict and reduce fossil fuel consumption across the world. But the country is not immune from the impacts of the restrictive energy policies the agreement imposes on its trade partners. One of those is

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Dr. Jim Steele to Join Dr. Cal Beisner on Facebook Live Stream July 21, 7 pm!

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Dr. Jim Steele, author of Ocean Health—Is there an “Acidification” Problem? and Landscapes and Cycles, will be joining us tomorrow, Tuesday July 21, for our Facebook Live Series “From the Stacks.” Dr. Steele and Dr. Beisner will discuss why fears of “ocean acidification” are mistaken, how the chemical and biological processes of the oceans regulate seawater pH so

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India Crafts Fossil-Fuel Pathway to Secure its Future

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India is on the way to become a fossil fuel-based energy powerhouse of the 21st century. India’s developmental goals for the future are quite ambitious. They ought to be: From tackling the surging poverty rates to providing affordable utilities, the country faces a steep challenge. The key to achieving any of its developmental goals is

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When Ideology Trumps Reason, Science Suffers

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Lawrence Krauss, a veteran American-Canadian theoretical physicist who has taught at Arizona State, Yale, and Case Western Reserve, rattled some cages yesterday with an article in the Wall Street Journal. “The Ideological Corruption of Science” mourns and warns of the increasing substitution of politically correct ideology for objective, evidence-driven science in determining which scientific views

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Climate Alarmists Try to Preclude Debate

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Carbon Brief, the website of one of many climate-alarmist organizations, wants to make sure you aren’t a victim of “climate change misinformation.” To that end, it published, last month, an erudite-sounding article titled “How climate change misinformation spreads online.” It is an exercise in bogus critical thinking. The authors—Kathie Treen, a Ph.D. candidate in computer

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Hot Summer Epic Fail: New Climate Models Exaggerate Midwest Warming by 6X

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For the last 10 years I have consulted for grain growing interests, providing information about past and potential future trends in growing season weather that might impact crop yields. Their primary interest is the U.S. corn belt, particularly the 12 Midwest states (Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Michigan)

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