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…
Tag: Climate Change
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…
Climate Change Narrative Is “Corruption of Science,” says 2022 Physics Nobel Laureate
John Clauser, one of three recipients of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, does not mince words. He has just joined the CO2 Coalition, a group critical of global warming extremism. In its announcement he was quoted as saying:
“The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people. Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience. In turn, the pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. . .
Hottest Day in Earth’s History? Probably Not
Don’t be too sure that July 4 was the “hottest day ever.”
Speaking Truth to Power on Electric Vehicles: The Switch Is a “Colossal Mistake”
Writing in Spiked, Joel Kotkin lists many reasons why shifting to electrical vehicles is a “colossal mistake.” A few:
- “[T]he UK government is already looking to ban people from charging their cars at home during peak hours.”
- “In California, the epicentre of green zealotry, policies banning the sale of non-electric vehicles mean the state will face ‘acute electricity shortages’ over the coming decade, according to one recent analysis.”