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

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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50th Earth Day: Compassionate concern for humans and their habitat

A measured response to COVID-19 must balance health and economic needs Fifty years of weather have passed since the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. This was the same year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was established and the federal Clean Air Act was promulgated. Over the past five decades, since I rode my bike to

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Are Schools and Media to Blame for Children’s Climate-change Neuroses?

The Independent reported March 3 that “a growing number of children are being affected by eco-anxiety—concern about ecological disasters.” Question: Do you suppose there is any connection between what school children are being taught in the classroom and may see on broadcast “news” all over the world—if they take time to pay attention—and their states of

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Which Is the Greater Threat to San Diego? Climate Change, or Earthquake?

The Los Angeles Times manages to take its usual, circuitous way around to tell us its grim story, but in the end has made my point that natural cataclysmic events like plagues, earthquakes, tsunamis, storms and rare unscheduled visits by a celestial object present a far greater, and over time, a more real and present danger

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Cornwall Alliance’s Dr. Roy Spencer Speaks to Managers of $25 Trillion in Investments

On February 13, Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Dr. Roy W. Spencer made a presentation to about 120 senior asset managers responsible for investments totaling some $25 trillion. The thrust of his message? “NO CLIMATE CRISIS—But the ‘Profits of Doom’ Will Continue.” Dr. Spencer, a principal research scientist in climatology at the University of Alabama, Huntsville

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