We are grateful to the Net Zero Watch and the Global Warming Policy Foundation for their “Earth Day 2023” cartoon. If you read carefully you can see messages about changes over the past 53 years (since Earth Day 1970) such as these: Life expectancy has increased 30% to 72. Extreme poverty has halved. Food has…
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A Carbon Tax? Not So Fast
The Global Warming Policy Foundation, usually considered skeptical about taking action on climate change, has issued a paper called “It Pollutes, So Tax it: Need We Say More about Carbon Dioxide?” That would seem to recommend a tax on carbon dioxide emissions and to an extent it does. But the paper by Peter Hartley of…
A Gardener’s View of Climate Change
While the discussion of climate change often takes place on a global scale, I’ve come upon a refreshing review on a local basis, written by a North Carolina gardener with no axe to grind. Tom Packer has published a remarkably thorough examination of local historical climate trends. He observes that as recently as 2015 the…
How Social Media Oligopolies Suppress Climate Facts. Part I
Climate alarmists’ response when the facts don’t fit the narrative they’ve been pushing for two decades is to suppress the facts by killing the messengers. Today you kill bearers of inconvenient truths not with an ax to the back of the neck but by de-platforming them. Climate alarmists are the true science deniers, promoting model…
Eminent Climate Scientist Denounces Demonization of CO2, Sees Dangerous Results
The Global Warming Forum has published a paper by MIT emeritus meteorologist Richard Lindzen, An Assessment of the Conventional Global Warming Narrative. The results of the current one-dimensional view of the greenhouse effect could be disastrous, says Lindzen. “This all leaves us with a quasi-religious movement predicated on an absurd ‘scientific’ narrative. The policies invoked…
Australia’s Great Coral Reef Is Alive and Well. Why Hide That Fact?
(This file has been updated.) Peter Ridd, who examined current data about Australia’s Great Coral Reef, demolishes fears that the reef is sick or dying. He asks why the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) is obscuring that fact by failing to aggregate the data. However, perhaps recognizing that Ridd (a controversial figure) was studying…