How Ideologues Abuse Power in Professional Associations—Exhibit A: AMS Letter to Pruitt

By now everybody knows that the national academies of science of the world’s top countries, and various professional scientific associations, and in short all people with brains firmly believe that human emissions of carbon dioxide have been the primary driver of global warming/climate change for the past half century. But what most people don’t know

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Has NOAA’s “Pausebuster” Been Busted?

“The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.”—Proverbs 18:17 Major news outlets and the climate change-focused blogosphere erupted over the last few days with the The Daily Mail’s publication February 4 of David Rose’s “Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming

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EPW Chairman Introduces Cornwall Letter Supporting Pruitt EPA Nomination into Hearing Record

As I write, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee is in lunch recess. Shortly before recess, committee Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY) introduced the Cornwall Alliance’s open letter supporting Pruitt into the record: I’d like to submit to the record as well, having heard that some

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What Would the Precautionary Principle Imply for Ethanol?

In 2007 Congress passed a law requiring the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study and report every three years to Congress on the environmental impact of EPA’s ethanol mandate. And in the intervening nine years, EPA has complied with the law once—in 2011. Now it says it’ll be 2024 before it can manage it

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Leading Scientists Urge Greater Data Quality Accountability

Over 300 scientists, engineers, economists, and other scholars last week sent a letter to Congressman Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, in support of the Committee’s efforts to implement greater accountability for the scientific work of federal agencies involved in climate research, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

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Unelected, Unaccountable Greens Dictated Clean Power Plan to EPA

Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute under FOIA demonstrate that EPA almost certainly violated federal law by using private email to correspond with the Natural Resources Defense Council, correspondence in which NRDC essentially drafted critical parts of the “Clean Power Plan,” or even, as the Wall Street Journal puts it, “the rule,” not

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