Whatever one’s views about climate change, nothing can justify National Public Radio’s recent brutal and uninformed attack on David Legates, a professor at the University of Delaware and former Delaware state climatologist. Legates has just been appointed to a high position at NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and that was enough to bring…
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Hurricane Trends Steady . . . Charleston S.C. Sues Oil Producers . . . Germany Resists Climate-Change Targets
HEADLINES: The real story on hurricane trends. On CO2 Science . . . Another city (Charleston) sues fossil fuel producers for keeping climate change a secret. In the Charlotte Observer. . . European Union combines coronavirus relief and climate change funding, reports Reuters. . . . . . but Germany is resisting the EU climate-change…
Don’t Panic over Climate Change, Says Bjørn Lomborg
Since the publication of his book The Skeptical Environmentalist in 1998, Bjørn Lomborg has been a thorn in the side of climate alarmists who call for a rapid decarbonization of the world economy to prevent apocalyptic global warming. His new book, False Alarm, drives that thorn deeper. False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us…
Imprison Climate Realists? . . . You’re Optimistic, You Must Be Pro-Trump . . . Another Solar Bust. . .
News about the Environment: ‘Climate Activists Step Up Calls for Imprisoning Climate Realists,” says Anthony Watts on ClimateRealism.com. “Optimism, whether toward the pandemic or global warming, is viewed as a conservative, pro-Trump position. Now more than ever, political polarization makes it hard to have a rational argument about scientific issues.” So writes John Horgan in…
Heat Waves and Arctic Temperatures
James Taylor, president of the Heartland Institute, on heat waves: “When climate alarmists react to annual summer heatwaves by claiming they are being caused by global warming, people interested in the truth now have a concise, compelling source for rebuttal.” The source is a new Heartland study.
Climate Activists Attack William Nordhaus
Quite a debate is going on over the findings of Yale professor William Nordhaus, who received a Nobel Prize in economics in 2018 primarily for his studies of climate change and how to address it. In 1994, Nordhaus developed a way of measuring the impact of climate change and how to weigh the costs and…