President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a great man, a true lover of liberty, and very suspicious of the power of government at the same time that he recognized its necessity. Millions of Americans would benefit enormously from reading his Farewell Address. Most have heard of the “military-industrial complex” but don’t know that it was Eisenhower […]
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Why did one of the world’s top physicists—ever—sign the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation’s Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change, which challenges climate alarmism, though he’s a liberal, a Democrat, likes President Obama, and has a strong background in climate science? My latest article at Townhall.com explains. His reasons for signing that
What’s wrong with Democratic Presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s claim that climate change is the No. 1 threat to national security and could leave the world uninhabitable? My latest article in ChristianPost.com explains. Greener on the Other Side: Climate Models Agree, Nature is Wrong!
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France Télévisions’ chief weather forecaster, Philippe Verdier, boldly told the world in his new book Climat Investigation that the IPCC and other climate alarmists are guilty of “taking the world hostage” to bad science, bad economics, and bad politics. It didn’t take long for the axe to fall. France Télévisions, a government-run station, put him
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The money quote on climate change in the first Democratic presidential “debate” was Senator Bernie Sanders’s response to moderator Anderson Cooper’s question, “what is the greatest national security threat to the United States?” “The scientific community is telling us,” Sanders said, “that if we do not address the global crisis of climate change, transform our
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Each month when RSS (Remote Sensing Systems) updates its global average temperature data, Lord Christopher Monckton calculates how far back one can go in the RSS record without showing a positive trend, i.e., how long “the pause” is. It’s been lengthening for several years and as of the end of August had reached 18 years
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Recently 20 scientists, firm believers in CAGW and proponents of policies to reduce it, sent a letter to the White House supporting a call by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) for criminal prosecution under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) act of scientists who disagree with them. Hello?! Anybody ever heard of the First Amendment—you
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The Arctic, like the rest of the world, experiences natural cycles, and some of them can be pretty radical. While most of the world enjoys a pretty stable 24-hour cycle of sunrise and sunset, with the sun visible roughly half of each day, a little longer in summer, a little shorter in winter, the Arctic
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Georgia Tech climatologist Judith Curry dealt a serious blow to the appeal to consensus on climate change in her paper “Climate Change: No Consensus on Consensus,” three years ago. She pointed out (among lots of other valuable things) that, whatever value consensus might have in science (as opposed to politics), consensus is significant only if
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Been hearing about the methane monster that’s going to cook the planet? The Independent, Salon, Mother Jones, Alternet, Arctic News, and the Arctic Methane Emergency Group have all trumpeted it, and the methane message becomes the more dire as we approach Paris, with 5-alarm fires raging at TruthOut and Real News Network. Irreversible positive feedback loop: warming Arctic releases methane that warms
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