“Humanity can adapt to whatever climate change may occur—with sufficient prosperity and political will.” – Edward Ring, senior fellow of the Center for American Greatness “The argument against fossil fuels rests on two premises. The first is that carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are causing a climate emergency. … The other premise underlying… Continue Reading
“Want to know whether this summer’s heat waves in the United States are extraordinary—nay, even unprecedented—due to manmade global warming? … The answer veritably shouts at us: Because the 1960s heat-wave index was the lowest of the entire 125-year period, and while the index rose in fits and starts afterward, it never came close to… Continue Reading
“The climate is the most complex system on Earth. Is it really possible to project with any precision what it will be like 20, 40, or even 100 years from now? Steve Koonin, former Undersecretary for Science in the Obama Administration, challenges the confident assumptions of climate alarmists.” Originally published here at YouTube by PragerU on… Continue Reading
“Andrew Dessler and Steven Koonin will debate the resolution ‘Climate science compels us to make large and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.’ Dessler will take the affirmative, and Koonin will take the negative. Dessler is a Professor of Atmospheric Science at Texas A&M University and Koonin is a Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering… Continue Reading
By Chip Knappenberger — July 21, 2022 “It was during the Fall of 1984 that I first met Pat Michaels. He was the professor of my Applied Climatology course during the first semester of my junior year at the University of Virginia. He entered class carrying a 3-ring binder over-stuffed with papers sticking out on… Continue Reading
“Science is one of the great achievements of the human mind and the biggest reason why we live not only longer but more vigorously in our old age in addition to all the ways in which it provides us with things that make life easier and more enjoyable. Like anything valuable, science has been seized… Continue Reading
“The administration is aiming to overhaul the energy sector and the American economy to achieve the costly and unrealistic objectives of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reaching economy-wide net-zero emissions by 2050. Biden stopped short of invoking national emergency powers to achieve his climate agenda as rumored, while promising more regulatory and executive actions to… Continue Reading
“Perhaps the powers that be should read a recent analysis by David Stevenson, director of the Delaware-based Caesar Rodney Institute’s Center for Energy & Environment: An increased use of wind and solar energy — the climate alarmists’ preferred alternatives to fossil fuels — failed to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide in the PJM Interconnection service… Continue Reading
“Governments have evolved a strategy by which whole industries or professions are captured by the bureaucratic state [eg renewable energy]. While this strategy is not the only one used, in peacetime it has proven enormously successful. I have outlined this strategy by means of the following analogy: Baiting the trap Setting the trap Springing the… Continue Reading
“Geologist James Kamis joins Gregory Wrightstone to discuss his theory of Plate Climatology. He ties excess heat flow related to the Earth’s plates and plate boundaries to hot spots, Arctic and Antarctic melting and El Nino events. Fascinating!” Originally published here at YouTube on 7 May 2020. Continue Reading
“Patrick J. Michaels, a climatologist who became a lightning rod in debates around climate change, reviled by activists and revered among skeptics for using his academic pedigree to challenge the broad scientific consensus on the causes and consequences of global warming, died July 15 at his home in Washington. He was 72. His family confirmed… Continue Reading
In light of President Joe Biden’s announcement yesterday that he was considering blocking oil development in the Gulf of Mexico, we should revisit what the legal ramifications were the last time this occurred under the Obama administration. Probably a violation of the “Takings Clause” of the US Constitution. “The impact of Tahoe-Sierra on takings jurisprudence… Continue Reading
“Pat Michaels’ career spanned the emergence of global warming as the dominant paradigm underpinning not just atmospheric research but more recently energy policy. His death last week represents not only the loss of a great intellect but also the end of an era. … There was a time when it was possible to point out… Continue Reading
“Yet again, tipping points have threatened and failed to materialise. In 1972, the first UN Environment Program director gave the planet 10 years to avoid catastrophe. In 1982 the UN gave a date of 2000. By 1989, the UN had brought this forward to 1992. Prince Charles has submitted various ‘end of the world’ scenarios.… Continue Reading
The more you subsidize something, the more you get of it … and at higher and higher economic cost over time to consumers and taxpayers. The demand and supply graph below is very good but doesn’t tell the whole story. Taxpayer subsidies provide ongoing and perverse incentives to suppliers of ‘renewables’ (or anything else) to… Continue Reading
“Notably, the United States has a vested interest in Australia maintaining a steady flow of energy exports because Australia is a critical ally in managing East Asian relations. While this is most often thought of in terms of security cooperation, there is also an economic dimension. The two work very closely on regional maritime security… Continue Reading
“Is anyone else tiring of all this green hysteria over the heatwave? There is something medieval about it. There is something creepily pre-modern in the idea that sinful mankind has brought heat and fire and floods upon himself with his wicked, hubristic behaviour. What next – plagues of locusts as a punishment for our failure… Continue Reading
“Sophistry is the use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving. Climate alarmists who know the world is not coming to an imminent end (and that they aren’t going to save the planet from apocalyptic destruction), are creating clever – but false – arguments. There are plenty of them around in… Continue Reading
“The Competitive Enterprise and the entire policy community lost a friend and colleague last week. We mourn the death of Dr. Patrick J. Michaels (1950-2022), who joined CEI as a senior fellow in 2019. His contributions had an immediate and lasting effect on the intersection of science and climate policy. Prior to joining CEI and… Continue Reading
“Despite rhetoric to the contrary, there is still plenty of sea ice over Arctic regions this summer, supplying feeding platforms for polar bears, ice-dependent seals, and walrus cows nursing their young calves. Forget about whether the numbers are below or above some short-term average, there is no catastrophe in the making for marine mammals in the… Continue Reading
“Gallup polls that ask ‘what is the most important problem’ facing this country today show that a mere 3% of respondents answered, climate change. … The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine conducted a survey that resulted in at least ‘31,000 scientists [saying] there is ‘no convincing evidence’ that humans can or will cause catastrophic… Continue Reading
“For the poor of this world, any hope starts with the termination of restrictive energy policies implemented in the name of climate hysteria. Citizens should challenge these policies. For them, the plaintiffs in a recent case in the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) — West Virginia et. al. versus EPA — are a… Continue Reading
“Defined loosely, red teaming is the practice of viewing a problem from an adversary or competitor’s perspective. The goal of most red teams is to enhance decision making, either by specifying the adversary’s preferences and strategies or by simply acting as a devil’s advocate. Alternative analysis is the superclass of techniques of which red teaming may be considered a… Continue Reading
“The quality of the CCC’s advice is questionable, in particular with respect to the ‘net zero’ target for 2050. It advised that this target was feasible but refused to disclose the calculations on which its costs figures were based, and it became clear that the scale of the challenge of net zero was not well… Continue Reading
“Recently, the New York Times, in a progressive moment of truth, reacted to the US Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA, in which the court ruled that because carbon dioxide is not among the pollutants regulated by the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, the Environmental Protection Agency could not enforce CO2 emissions rules for electric power plants. … Not… Continue Reading
