Some scientists are backing off the apocalyptic scenarios of climate change, says Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. “A drumroll moment was Zeke Hausfather and Glen Peter’s 2020 article in the journal Nature partly headlined: “Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome.” “This followed the 2017 paper by…
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Climate Frenzy: A Modern Version of the Crusades
William Happer, emeritus professor of physics at Princeton and an expert on climate, recently explained why today’s “climate frenzy” is not a crisis. Happer spoke at a seminar sponsored by Hillsdale College. Among the highlights: “The best way to think about the frenzy over climate is to consider it a modern version of the medieval…
Free Speech? Forget It.
If you are skeptical about climate change claims and have a prominent position, the New York Times will attack you. It will minimize your credentials, call you a “denialist,” sensationalize your comments, and never consider the quality of your research. Here is the latest “news”: David Legates and Ryan Maue, scientists with the White House Office…
A Laffer Curve for Pollution?
Most of us naturally assume that some pollution is the price we must pay for economic progress. That may be true, but studies show that more pollution is bad for health, IQ, productivity and employment. That means that pollution reduces human capital. There may be a “Laffer Curve” for pollution, just as there is for…
Joe Bast Remembers Fred Singer
Excerpts from Joe Bast’s remembrance of Fred Singer, who died April 6 at the age of 95. On the Heartland Institute website: Fred Singer was a giant in the field of climate science. His careers in government, the academy, and then in think tanks gave him a breadth of knowledge and experience that mere specialists…