Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts

Pope Reveals God Cannot Stop Climate Change By Himself

by Gregg Zoroya.      Holy man declares moral imperative to reduce greenhouse gases. Scientists weary after years of often vicious opposition by doubters of their climate-change findings see this year as crucial to the planet's future because of a religious document expected from Pope Francis on Thursday. The rare encyclical, or teaching letter,     ... MORE

Global Warming: When Science Meets Science Fiction

by Tim Constantine.      One of the most effective ways to sell your political agenda is to back up your concerns with factual information. That info may be statistical or scientific. In the absence of solid facts, the next most effective method often seems to be to instill fear. If you don’t support “agenda X” there will be dire consequences. In the case ... MORE

Barry Farber: ISIS Vs. 'Climate Change'

Contemplating America's perceived enemies.  How much can you blame a liar when his audience is too ignorant to follow his tongue? Oh, how the New York kiddies loved Uncle Don, the deeply beloved children’s radio star! One day, as his show was ending and the happy theme music was playing, Uncle Don reminded his loyal, sweet   ... MORE

Gary North: The Global Warmers Have Lost The War

The ultimate inconvenient truth.   It’s always nice to see a leftist outfit finally fess up to a lost cause. The global warming crowd has clearly lost, and this Mother Jones article makes this clear. The governments of the world have not implemented the Kyoto treaty of 1992 or its 1997 update. The whole thing lapsed on December 31, 2012. It’s over.  ... MORE

Chriss Street: The Sun Is Engaging In Climate Change Denial

Another problem for Al.  The sun is known to be the main driver of all weather and climate. With 99.86% of the mass in our solar system, the great ball of violent fire in the sky has recently gone quiet in what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century and actually flatlined in recent days. Weak solar cycles, like the current one,   ... MORE

Walter E Williams: California's Water Problems

A water policy that leaves the public thirsty.    Californians are experiencing their third year of drought. Headlines read: "Current California Drought Is Driest In State's History; Scientists Fear 'Megadroughts' On Their Way." "Global Warming Upped Heat Driving California's Drought." Then there are scientific claims such as, "There's a rapidly   ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: The New Inquisition

How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom enough to defend it. But how many people today can stop looking at their electronic devices long enough to even think about such things? Meanwhile, attempts to shut down people whose free speech interferes with other people's political   ... MORE

Ronald Bailey: What Evidence Would Be Needed To Persuade You That Man-Made Climate Change Is Real?

Evidence does not mandate any particular policy.     In 2005, I changed my mind about climate change: I concluded that the balance of the scientific evidence showed that man-made global warming could likely pose a significant problem for humanity by the end of this century. My new assessment did not please a number of my friends, some of    ... MORE

New Study Is A ‘Death Blow’ To Global Warming Hysteria

by Michael Bastasch.  A new study out of Germany casts further doubt on the so-called global warming “consensus” by suggesting the atmosphere may be less sensitive to increases in carbon dioxide emissions than most scientists think. A study by scientists at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Meteorology found that man-made aerosols had a much     ... MORE

Patrick Moore: Why I Am A Climate Change Skeptic

Confessions of a Greenpeace co-founder.   I am skeptical humans are the main cause of climate change and that it will be catastrophic in the near future. There is no scientific proof of this hypothesis, yet we are told “the debate is over” and “the science is settled.” My skepticism begins with the believers’ certainty they can predict the global    ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Global Warming

A most anti-science idea.  "But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact," said President Barack Obama in his 2014 State of the Union address. Saying the debate is settled is nonsense, but the president is right about climate change. GlobalChange.gov gives the definition of climate change: "Changes in average weather conditions that persist over  ... MORE

Global Warming Protest Postponed Due To Cold Weather

by Michael Bastach.   A propaganda fail at Yale. Yale anti-fossil fuel campaigners have indefinitely postponed a protest that was set for this weekend due to “unfavorable weather conditions and other logistical issues.” Fossil Free Yale, a group pushing the university to divest itself from fossil fuels, told the Yale Daily News that frigid, snowy  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Stormy Weather And Politics

The political utility of dire predictions.    It was refreshing to see meteorologists apologize for their dire — and wrong — predictions of an unprecedented snow storm that they had said would devastate the northeast. It was a big storm, but the northeast has seen lots of big snow storms before and will probably see lots of big snow storms  ... MORE

How Government Money Effects Climate Change Opinion

by Patrick J Michaels & Paul C "Chip" Knappenberger.  In our post last week titled “Climate Alarmism: When is this Bozo Going Down?” we described how new research increasingly casts doubt on the validity of climate models and their projections of future climate change.  It is increasing clear that climate models simply predict too much   ... MORE

Wind Turbines are 'Expensive, Unreliable and Inefficient'

by Donna Rachel Edmunds.    Study reveals another inconvenient truth. Wind power is too variable and too unpredictable to provide a serious alternative to fossil fuels, a new study by the Scientific Alliance and the Adam Smith Institute has confirmed. The researchers concluded that, although it is true that the wind is always blowing    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene

Insights derived from wisdom.     The great boxing champion Joe Louis once said about one of his opponents, who was known for his speed: "He can run but he can't hide." In the Congressional elections this year, many Democrats are running away from Barack Obama, but they can't hide their record of voting for Obama's agenda more than 90 percent   ... MORE

Wall Street Journal: Climate Science Is Not Settled

by Steven E. Koonin.    But government proceeds as though it is. The idea that "Climate science is settled" runs through today's popular and policy discussions. Unfortunately, that claim is misguided. It has not only distorted our public and policy debates on issues related to energy, greenhouse-gas emissions and the environment. But it also has  ... MORE

Leo Vs. Science: Vanishing Evidence For Climate Change

The incandescent ignorance of a Hollywood star.  In the runup to the Sept. 23 UN Climate Summit in New York, Leonardo DiCaprio is releasing a series of films about the “climate crisis.” The first is “Carbon,” which tells us the world is threatened by a “carbon monster.” Coal, oil, natural gas and other carbon-based forms of energy are causing   ... MORE

David Rose: The Myth Of Global Meltown

Al Gore's predicted it would be ICE-FREE by now.  The speech by former US Vice-President Al Gore was apocalyptic. ‘The North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff,’ he said. ‘It could be completely gone in summer in as little as seven years. Seven years from now.’ Those comments came in 2007 as Mr Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his      ... MORE