The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), issued in February, is full of flaws, says Roger Pielke, Jr., professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. The report, called Working Group 2 (or WG2), is supposed to focus on the “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” of a changing climate. Pielke…
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A Half-Century of Disproven Pessimism
Writing on his blog Master Resource, Robert L. Bradley, Jr. points out that “an optimistic view of future climate has a strong basis in settled science (CO2 fertilization, modest primary warming), just as climate pessimistic has a more speculative basis (as in debated feedback effects to elevate the initial warming).” Bradley reviews “the poor track…
Will Climate Change Spur a Government Takeover of the Banking System?
American Enterprise Institute scholar Paul Kupiec thinks it may. In May President Biden authorized the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) to look into how the banking system should be regulated in light of risks from climate change. Writing in The Hill, Kupiec says the latest report of the council suggests a plan could be brewing…
Self-loathing in the West Explains Climate Change Fears, says British Writer
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Janet Daley offers a reason why the West has taken such an obsessive attitude toward climate change and Covid-19: self-blame. “Let us accept for the moment that this is absolutely true: that climate change and the Covid pandemic are unquestionable phenomena just as they are described in the official doctrine…
The Crisis in Madagascar Is Not Caused by Climate Change
The Washington Post has acknowledged that the near-famine in the island of Madagascar, which has been suffering a severe drought, was not caused by climate change. Writes Rachel Pannett: “Now, new research has cast doubt on whether global warming is the main cause — underscoring the pitfalls of viewing food crises primarily as a result…
The ‘Academic Mobbing’ of a Senior Climate Scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder
I recently wrote a post about a lecture given by Roger Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. The lecture was based on the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and indicated that carbon dioxide emissions are less than previously expected and that most kinds…