Environment
For at least a decade, now, it seemed as if whatever was happening on the planet, globally, regionally, whatever, was attributed to climate change. Here’s more indication that even things that weren’t happening on the planet were being thus attributed: More trouble looms for the IPCC. The body may need to revise statements made in…
In part to give my credulous environmentalist friends a reason for their daily exclamations about our lack of credibility and in part because it relates to points that I’ve made before about the construction of consensus on global warming, I thought I’d quote from a story in National Review about the two most prominent climate…
I refuse to scrap the entirety of my brilliant post about the new analysis of problematic temperature data stations just because Justin, the smart apple, beat me to it. The most critical element of the theory of anthropogenic global warming is … well, you know, some actual warming of the globe. Data – more specifically,…
Before we all begin reacting… I don’t know… rationally to this sort of information let’s just take a deep breath and remind ourselves that there’s still time to undermine the global economy and cinch down on freedom, if we try. “The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,” said John Christy,…
A lot of people are pinning their hopes to the emergence of a “green economy,” but wishing won’t make it less of a fad: Although it offers general optimism about the green sector, the state plan does not say how large the industry could be in Rhode Island or how many jobs it could create.…
A post-email-revelation tack being taken by global warming alarmists has been that we skeptics, as we’re called, have no qualifications to judge the science, and the scientific controversies that have filtered out to our ignorant outskirts are really just minor complaints against a vast body of knowledge all pointing to the truth of the alarmists’…
OK. Let’s pretend that we believe the prognostications of a handful of people who claim that their findings ought to incite transfers of billions of dollars in wealth and change the political and economic structure of the planet. Even with that suspension of disbelief: Goals on reducing greenhouse gases announced by major industrialized nations are…
Boy, when people finally start looking into the claims of climate alarmists, dominoes start to fall: A STARTLING report by the United Nations climate watchdog that global warming might wipe out 40% of the Amazon rainforest was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
Under my post “Stop the Check…”, commenter David says Only a moron could fail to recognize that the earth is warming. Sure, the planet is warming. Most people don’t deny that fact. The problem for AGW scientists and advocates – in addition to the minisculity of man’s role in the generation of greenhouse gases –…
As I’ve pointed out, one of the arguments made by the Healthcarism advocates was that we must pass something, anything and “the warts can be removed later.” Apparently, that attitude exists amongst global climate changistas, too (h/t): Some researchers have argued that it is unfair to attack the IPCC too strongly, pointing out that some…