Posted 18 July 2017
Writing in UK's Sunday Telegraph about the Paris climate agreement, Christopher Booker exposes the hyprocrisy of most of the signatories: "The only G20 countries left committed to CO2 reductions (by 1.7 billion tons) are now those in the EU, plus Canada and Australia, respon...
Posted 12 July 2017
"The objective of this research was to test the hypothesis that Global Average Surface Temperature (GAST) data produced by NOAA, NASA and HADLEY are sufficiently credible estimates of global average temperatures, such that they can be relied upon for climate modelling and poli...
Posted 10 July 2017
"No one I know disputes that the global climate has been warming over the past century and a half, that sea levels have indeed been rising, or that human activities, including carbon dioxide emissions, have and will continue to contribute 'some influence.' The big contentions...
Posted 9 July 2017
"To achieve the goal agreed in Paris of a maximum 2oC increase in global temperatures above pre-industrial levels has been estimated to have a global cost of $US17 trillion by 2040 (about 800 times more than was spent on all the Apollo missions to the moon) - and it would req...
Posted 8 July 2017
In a recent letter to his community, Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Rafael Reif criticised President Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate agreement, for ignoring "consensus" climate change science. In reply, a group of skeptic scientists have penned a two...
Posted 24 June 2017
Hat tip to Joanne Nova in Australia:
This post takes you to two short videos (one about 3 minutes, one 9 minutes), simply astonishing, utterly accurate and devastatingly honest about the politics of the "global warming" issue. No one with a pulse can watch them and not la...
Posted 23 June 2017
This Breitbart paper has been described as "the most complete, accurate and persuasive answer to climate change alarmism to be published so far in 2017." It concludes: " By withdrawing from the Paris agreement, President Trump did a wonderful thing for America and the world....
Posted 7 June 2017
Mark Mills writes in Fortune magazine about the real reason President Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement: "The Paris climate agreement was never about climate science. Anchored in the premise that climate science is 'settled', the accord seeks to dramatically cha...
Posted 6 June 2017
A new paper by Ned Nikolov and Karl Zeller, at Environment Pollution and Climate Change calls for reassessment of the 'greenhouse effect' in determining climate: "Consequently, the global down-welling long-wave flux presently assumed to drive Earth’s surface warming appears...
Posted 6 June 2017
In his own inimitable and entertaining way, Australian satirist Clive James writes about the difficulties of getting climate alarmists to admit their errors, but adds a warning: "When you tell people once too often that the missing extra heat is hiding in the ocean, they will s...
Posted 6 June 2017
"By withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement President Trump has put the burden of proof on those private investors and nation states that believe renewable energy is economically beneficial. Far from being a disaster, this is a step towards a reasonable and spont...
Posted 5 June 2017
Rupert Darwall blogs at spectator.co.uk: "President Trump has a surer grasp of the economic realities than the Europeans. The United States is now the world's hydrocarbon superpower. Thanks to fracking, it has surpassed Saudia Arabia and Russia to become the world's top energy...
Posted 5 June 2017
Lord NIgel Lawson, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer writing about the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord: "But the harmful consequences of low-carbon policies are harder to ignore when they are right on your doorstep, or even inside your home. Britain’s air pol...
Posted 29 May 2017
Professor William Happer writes in the Washington Times: "The United States should withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. For too long, well-meaning policy-makers have been misled by propaganda, masquerading as science, that more atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) will harm...
Posted 18 May 2017
Tom Harris, of the International Climate Science Coalition, writes at The Daily Caller: "If President Trump merely pulls the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, it will be like cutting the head off a dandelion. It will look good for a while until equa...
Posted 18 May 2017
Larry Bell writes at Newsmax about an apparent change of heart by the New York Times: "Titled 'Climate of Complete Certainty' the gray lady's new op-ed writer Bret Stephens observes in his first-ever column entry, '[We] respond to inherent uncertainties of data by adding more...
Posted 17 May 2017
"[Wind power's] contribution is still, after decades - nay centuries - of development, trivial to the point of irrelevance. Even put together, wind and photovoltaic solar are supplying less than 1 per cent of global energy demand. From the International Energy Agency's 2016 Ke...
Posted 8 May 2017
"There is now evidence, derived from satellite imaging, that over the last 30-odd years Earth has been getting greener as a consequence of the increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration. This is of course consistent with the science...and indeed was predicted many years ago. The...
Posted 17 April 2017
Justin Worland writes in Time magzine: "The past eight years have not been kind to people who dispute that the climate is changing. Leading scientists strengthened the case that the earth is warming and humans are at fault, while the Obama administration prioritized fightin...