Today’s Galileos challenge climate orthodoxy — and other nonsense

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Is the modern scientific establishment like the 17th-century elite who conspired against Galileo for his heliocentric “apostasy” — both being motivated by a desire to retain power and privilege rather than by a search for truth? That’s what best-selling author Eric Metaxas suggests in his recent book, “Is Atheism Dead?” Metaxas explains how Galileo’s challenging […]

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The Facts: Reporters Exploit Normal Weather to Fan Climate Fear

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Exaggeration of weather events to sell climate crisis is not something new. In the case of a Sky News’ account of flooding in one Indian city, my own observations — backed up by independent data — are contrary to the report.  Chennai — my home state’s capital, formerly known as Madras — is prone to floods, whose severity I’ve personally witnessed. In fact, the last time Chennai flooded,

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Biden energy policy at a glance: You give me 94 bucks and I’ll give you 2.3! Happy?

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So, President Joe Biden is taking 50 million barrels of oil out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to cool the rapid rise in gasoline prices. Will it work? Not for long—if at all. We use about 20 million barrels per day. So 50 million is enough to supply all our oil for only about

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Allergies to Facts Make Politicians Hurt People

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Did you know it is colder than normal in many parts of the world? This is under-reported by the mainstream media and man-made global warming alarmist government leaders. They are happy holding give-away parties and getting more votes. Scientists know that, rather than increased atmospheric CO2 causing temperature increase, additional CO2 in the atmosphere follows

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Getting It Right

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In “The Theory of Gravitation” in his textbook Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman provides an outstanding example of the development of the scientific method, a process for correcting errors and advancing knowledge of the physical world. The ancients observed the movement of the visible planets and the stars and deduced that the planets went around

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India’s COP-26 promise of Net Zero by 2070 overshadowed by coal use

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On COP26’s first day, India’s Prime Minister Modi announced that the world’s second largest coal consumer would become Net Zero by 2070 — a commitment that means almost nothing given realities of the subcontinent’s dependence on fossil fuels to meet the energy needs of 1.3 billion people. Though Modi’s efforts were praised by British PM

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