The victory of President Trump in 2016 was indicative of a lot of things. From the media’s inability to gauge voter perceptions to the aftermath shock, plenty was going on. The victory also meant that the voters in U.S. chose a candidate who was skeptical about the exaggerated climate doomsday claims we see in our news media these days. In his pre-election rallies, President Trump was clear about his pro-coal stance and questioned the popular theories htat blamed fossil fuels for extreme … [Read more...]
Is Brazil’s Climate Stance Justified?
The 25th Conference of Parties to the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change was scheduled to take place in Brazil this year. Not anymore. Brazil pulled out. Brazil once offered to host this year’s Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week. It just withdrew the offer. Brazil has also declined an invitation to attend the on-going UNDP-sponsored Good Growth Conference in Lima, Peru. And recently President Jair Bolsonaro fired Alfredo Sirkis from his position at the top of … [Read more...]
… until the other comes and examines him.
Has the climate-change controversy reached a milestone? That depends in part on whether President Donald Trump follows through with his desire to appoint a President's Committee on Climate Security (PCCS) under the National Security Council (NSC). The PCCS would be tasked with assessing the pros and cons of various perspectives on climate change---subjecting them to serious scientific testing. That's something climate alarmists haven't wanted done, which is why they've insisted for decades that … [Read more...]
More Evidence that Deep-State EPA Bureaucrats Aren’t Giving Up
Just in case you wondered whether deep-state bureaucrats at the federal Environmental Protection Agency had finally been brought under control, accountable to the people through their elected President and the EPA Administrator he appoints and the Senate that confirms the appointment, the answer is "No." Cause of Action Institute announced yesterday that it has discovered that, despite the fact that "the EPA informed the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that as of June … [Read more...]
It’s Not about the Climate—It Never Was
Generally, I conclude most of my climate change presentations with the phrase, “It’s not about the climate; it never was.” Here, I would like to start with that statement. In this brief article, I will discuss why carbon dioxide isn’t the dangerous gas it is made out to be, why climate change is not an ‘existential’ threat to the planet, and why the Green New Deal is not a solution to climate change. Let me begin with a series of questions. Is our climate changing? The answer is clearly … [Read more...]
Is the Case for Drastic Climate Policy a Case of Misplaced Expertise?
Jonah Goldberg, writing about climate change and climate policy (yes, there really is a difference between the two) in National Review, hit the nail on the head when he said, "expertise doesn’t necessarily transfer over from one field to another." What he had in mind was the silliness of thinking that climate scientists, because they are (we'll concede the point for the sake of argument) experts about climate, are therefore also experts about what to do about it (assuming anything should be … [Read more...]
Climate Catastrophism Causes Candidate Catastrophes
Voters were not kind to climate-change campaigners in the midterm elections November 6. Basic summary: The two highest-profile climate initiatives failed. Republicans in Congress's "Climate Solutions Caucus" suffered defeats: of 43 members, 11 lost (including Republican caucus leader Carlos Curbelo), 3 appear likely to lose in races not yet called, 1 lost in a primary earlier, and 7 incumbents chose not to run when they saw the handwriting on the wall. Environmentalist billionaire Tom … [Read more...]
How Do Hard Data and Computer Climate Models’ Dire Predictions Compare?
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman explained “the key to science” this way: In general we look for a new law by the following process. First we guess it. Then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what would be implied if this law that we guessed is right. Then we compare the result of the computation to nature, with experiment or experience, compare it directly with observation, to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. In that simple statement is … [Read more...]
Ah, the Complexities of Liberal Environmentalism!
Laugh? Scream? Cry? What's the proper reaction to a letter from liberal Democratic Senators Charles Schumer (NY), Maria Cantwell (WA), Ed Markey (MA), and Robert Menendez (NJ) to President Donald Trump decrying the harm rising gasoline prices does to American families. (It's always about the family, you know! Whatever a "family" might be.) All four Senators have supported raising federal taxes on gasoline as a way to fight global warming by reducing consumption. The tax increase would, of … [Read more...]
Insect-borne Diseases Spreading in the United States? Blame EPA, Not Exxon
Last fall Politico ran a special feature on global health that featured a graphic presentation of increased incidence of insect-borne diseases in the United States from 2004 to 2013, blaming the increase on global warming. "Warming global temperatures are changing the range and behavior of disease-carrying insects like mosquitos and ticks and extending the seasons in which they are active. As a result, incidence of the diseases they carry---including Lyme, spotted fever, West Nile and … [Read more...]
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