Fox News Quotes Cornwall Scholars against “Five most over-the-top climate warnings”

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Maxim Lott at Fox News lists 5 “most over-the-top climate warnings,” and in discussing them he quotes two Cornwall Alliance network scholars. The five warnings—all bogus—are that: Warming causes declining human birth rates (Morning Consult). We have “12 years left to live” because of it (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—and lots of her acolytes in and out of

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The World’s Gone Mad

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I have little but respect and admiration for Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede who has launched a worldwide movement of students on strike from school to protest anthropogenic climate change. I think she’s mistaken, and I’m inclined to agree with British climate scientist Piers Corbyn that she’s being manipulated, but she seems sincere in her

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No Deal at All

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When Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey rolled out their Green New Deal (GND) in February, they put flesh on the bones of a policy that formerly was only a pie-in-the-sky proposal promoted by the Green Party. This Green Party proposal was a wish list from an expansionist government agenda floated by Democrat Socialists and the far-left wing

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How To Respond to Ocasio-Cortez’s Claim that World Ends in 12 Years If We Don’t Address Climate Change?

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Some friends have wondered why I haven’t blogged in response to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that “The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” It’s because some claims are so absurd they need no response.

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Does Fighting Global Warming Help or Hurt the Poor?

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Want to “bring nothing but misery to poor people, especially in the developing world”? Simple: Just follow the advice of the international cabal of UN leaders and their organizations calling for drastic action to fight global warming. The harangue is familiar everywhere by now: Global warming will harm everybody, but it’ll harm the poor most

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Do Health Risks from Mercury Justify Stringent Regulations on Coal-Fired Power Plants?

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[Editor’s Note: The announcement December 27, 2018, by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that it is revising cost findings behind its Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) ignited a firestorm of complaints on the ground that mercury is a known neurotoxin that can cause brain damage in infants and young people. While that

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Is the Case for Drastic Climate Policy a Case of Misplaced Expertise?

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Jonah Goldberg, writing about climate change and climate policy (yes, there really is a difference between the two) in National Review, hit the nail on the head when he said, “expertise doesn’t necessarily transfer over from one field to another.” What he had in mind was the silliness of thinking that climate scientists, because they are

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