In November, the United States issued its Fifth Assessment on Climate Change. You may have missed it. It’s a “congressionally approved interagency effort” issued every five years. I’m not exactly sure why we need a series of U.S.-based assessments on climate change when we have the periodic reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change….
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‘I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published’
This is an extraordinary and daring admission by a scientist who successfully published in the prominent journal Nature by narrowing his view of the truth. That is, he focused only on climate change when studying the causes of wildfires. And even then, he used techniques that showed the impact more dramatically than others would. Patrick…
The Money Keeps Coming — For Uncertain Climate Change Ventures
Taxpayer funds are being used for big renewable projects: Dept. of Energy is offering $15.5 billion for retooling auto factories to make EVs. From Canary Media: “Detroit automakers and their joint-venture partners are building clusters of new factories — from Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, down through Kentucky, and across Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas—to assemble…
Two British Lords Politely Debate Climate Change
A polite British debate took place recently by email between two members of the House of Lords who disagree about the dangers of climate change. Indeed, they disagree about the IPCC report which both claim to rely on! Roger Pielke, Jr. publishes the correspondence of The Rt. Hon. Lord (Peter) Lilley and the Rt. Hon….
Bjorn Lomborg: Life Will Get Better in Spite of Climate Change
In a peer-reviewed journal, Bjorn Lomborg explains that increasing welfare will overwhelm the negative impacts of climate change: “Climate change is real and its impacts are mostly negative, but common portrayals of devastation are unfounded. Scenarios set out under the UN Climate Panel (IPCC) show human welfare will likely increase to 450% of today’s welfare…
David Friedman Skewers Media for Bad Reporting on Climate Change
In two Substack articles this month, economist David Friedman roundly criticized the media for ignoring facts about climate change—including facts readily available in the highly-praised reports of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Here’s a start (emphasis added): “Treatment of climate in the IPCC reports, especially in the summary for policy makers, is biased…