The Real Problem with Carbon Taxes

Bruce Everett, a specialist on global energy issues, a Director of the CO2 Coalition, and Adjunct Associate Professor of International Business, Fletcher School at Tufts University, has written an essay titled “The Real Problem with Carbon Taxes.”  In it he argues: “Carbon taxes have reemerged as a political issue. See for example, the recent Wall 

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The Limits of Knowledge and the Climate Change Debate

By Brian J. L. Berry, Jayshree Bihari, and Euel Elliott (Cato Journal, Vol. 36, No. 3, Fall 2016). The question of whether climate change is produced by anthropogenic global warming (henceforth AGW) has triggered an increasingly contentious confrontation over the conduct of science, the question of what constitutes scientific certainty, and the connection between science 

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New record extends global temperatures back two million years

By John Timmer Sees major transition at 1.2 million years, questionably high climate sensitivity. When it comes to understanding the Earth’s past climates, we have to understand what the global temperatures were. Instrument readings only go back to the 1800s, so researchers have had to rely on proxies—things we can measure, like tree ring width 

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DEBUNKED: Top 5 “Climate Change” Myths

By Steven Crowder Steven Crowder presents a humorous, irreverent, but accurate YouTube video on Debunking the top 5 Climate Change myths and defining what it really means to be a “Climate science denier”. The video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwviDPo4Rh4&feature=youtu.be

Record Arctic Sea Ice Growth In September

By Paul Homewood http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php Since hitting its earliest minimum extent since 1997, Arctic sea ice has been expanding at a phenomenal rate. Already it is greater than at the same date in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015. Put another way, it is the fourth highest extent in the last ten years. ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/ Even 

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Cut-throat academia leads to ‘natural selection of bad science’, claims study

By Hannah Devlin Scientists incentivised to publish surprising results frequently in major journals, despite risk that such findings are likely to be wrong, suggests research Getting stuff right is normally regarded as science’s central aim. But a new analysis has raised the existential spectre that universities, laboratory chiefs and academic journals are contributing to the 

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US Atmospheric Scientist Sees No Link Between Accumulated Cyclone Energy And Global Warming Over Past 30 Years

By P. Gossellin Atmospheric research scientist Dr. Philip Klotzbach at Twitter here tweeted a chart showing that accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) has not risen at all in 30 years, despite earlier massive hype and hollering by climate scientists and media, who insist “man-made” global warming is causing more frequent and intense cyclones. In fact Klotzbach’s plot 

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