- 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?
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….
More Reasons to Doubt Extreme Heat Predictions
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…
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…
Tributes to Pat Michaels
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…
Eminent Medical Journal Ignores Its Own Study on Climate Change
The Lancet, a British medical journal that has been published since 1823, is on the climate change bandwagon. It has just published an editorial, “The Climate Change Emergency: Last Chance to Act?” The essay appears right before the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) begins in Glasgow on Oct. 31. The Lancet editorial laments…