Another “Hottest Month on Record” Claim

It’s official. Or, at least official enough for NPR to report it with zero reference to contrary data: “July Was The Hottest Month In Recorded Human History“! Now, I’ve never been quite sure why “recorded human history” should be such a prominent concern. What about before recorded human history? Historical climatology tells us there were […]

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New Climate Report Got You Shakin’ in Your Boots?

Every year like clockwork, starting in late July and running through to November, mainstream media around the world start hyping the message: your sinful use of fossil fuels to heat or cool your home, cook your food, power your car or truck, make and market and use your food, clothing, shelter, communications, transportation, health care,

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Swiss Scientist: Play My Way or I’ll Take My Ball and Go Home!

That’s the gist of what Swiss climate scientist Sonia Seneviratne told CBC News about why she may refuse to participate in any future assessment reports from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It’s not that the reports don’t let her say what she wants to say. She’s been a lead author about extreme

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Northern California Fires? Blame Arson and Forest Mismanagement, Not Climate Change

The “Dixie fire” in northern California has consumed some 500,000 acres and over 400 structures, including most of the town of Greenville. More than 5,800 personnel are fighting the fire. Several other large fires are blazing in the region. Environmentalists, climate alarmists, and mainstream media predictably blamed climate change for them. But it’s likely they’re

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Comments On Federal Scientific Integrity

 Guest column by Kenneth Haapala, President, The Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) “It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe. It is quite another to do so when the environmental problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by careful observations. This is

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Obama official concedes it’s impossible to predict the risks of climate change

But media, politicians, and scientists skew climate data A review of Steven E. Koonin’s Unsettled? What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters Mark Twain has supposedly quipped that: “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know.  It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.”  Challenging what

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The “Proof” that Isn’t

Politicians, media, and environmentalists all over America are pointing to the record-breaking heat wave in America’s northwest and Canada’s southwest as proof of human-induced global warming. Unfortunately, localized weather and global climate aren’t the same. (The affected region, very roughly 1.5 million square miles, is under 1 percent of Earth’s total surface.) One cannot infer

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