Liberty and Ecology Blog

Climate Change Narrative Is “Corruption of Science,” says 2022 Physics Nobel Laureate

Posted on July 14, 2023July 14, 2023 by Jane Shaw Stroup

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. . .

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Environmental News: Weekend Picks

Posted on December 3, 2022December 3, 2022 by Jane Shaw Stroup

Montana’s glaciers are shrinking, but they have been shrinking since the 1850s (and faster before 1966).
A new poll “obliterates the notion that 97 percent of scientists believe we are facing a severe climate crisis.”
The Swiss are considering banning electric vehicles if it gets very cold this winter.
The New York Times blames private owners for failing to allow access to public land (the problem stems from nineteenth-century government policy).
Relying on wind and solar power requires “staggering” amounts of storage and the idea of electrical grids relying on them is”completely impractical and unaffordable.”

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How Social Media Oligopolies Suppress Climate Facts. Part II: What Role for Government?

Posted on October 26, 2022October 27, 2022 by H. Sterling Burnett

In Part I, I discussed the lengths to which high-tech social media companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, and others go to disparage and prohibit materials their “fact checkers” don’t like. Nowhere is this more true than with prominent scientists who differ from the politically dominant views on climate change. This post will look at possible remedies….

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More Reasons to Doubt Extreme Heat Predictions

Posted on October 12, 2022October 12, 2022 by Jane Shaw Stroup

Many climate scientists choose to ignore temperature history from satellite data in favor of temperature measurements taken on the surface only. (Satellites measure temperatures at a variety of heights—from the surface to the stratosphere.) Climate scientist Nicola Scafetta reviewed 38 climate model forecasts and how they correlated with actual temperatures. Temperature records measured by satellites…

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Eminent Climate Scientist Denounces Demonization of CO2, Sees Dangerous Results

Posted on October 7, 2022October 7, 2022 by Jane Shaw Stroup

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…

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Tributes to Pat Michaels

Posted on July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 by Jane Shaw Stroup

Patrick Michaels, scholar, honest commentator on climate change, and a guy with an outstanding sense of humor, died July 16. He was a climate realist, sometimes calling himself a “lukewarmer” —indicating that he recognized the presence of global warming but that it was not an existential threat. Here are recent tributes: From the Competitive Enterprise…

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