Fact Check: Is This the Hottest Summer on Earth Credit: Surasak Suwanmake/ Getty Images JOHN CARNEY 6 Sep 2023 Claim: “This summer is on track to be the hottest recorded on Earth.” An article in Barron’s about rising food prices made the claim on Wednesday morning.CNN’s headline proclaimed: “The world has just experienced the hottest summer on record – by a significant margin.” You can find similarly alarming headlines from CBS News, the Guardian, and the Associated Press. Verdict: Misleading. Compared with most of the earth’s history, this summer is unusually cold. The “record” referred to is kept by the United Nations World Meteorological
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December 10, 2023 By Jeffrey Folks It’s cold, but climate czar John Kerry doesn’t give a fart. Or maybe he does, since he seems to have interrupted his talk on carbon releases with an audible emission of his own. The audience pretended not to hear, but climate alarmists are used to pretense. They pretend the world will end in 2031 from warming and that temperatures are rising so fast that human beings will be fried. There’s no evidence that either of those two things is happening. But there’s lots of evidence that temperatures are getting colder. As John Casey explains in his book Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year
Read more ... →January 27, 2024 By Daniel W. Nebert For the past 35 years, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned us that emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, predominantly carbon dioxide (CO2), are causing dangerous global warming. This myth is blindly accepted — even by many of my science colleagues who know virtually nothing about climate. As a scientist, my purpose here is to help expose this fairy tale. The global warming story is not a benign fantasy. It is seriously damaging Western economies. In January 2021, the White House ridiculously declared that “climate change is the most serious existential threat
Read more ... →VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: American Paralysis And Decline OPINION VICTOR DAVIS HANSONCONTRIBUTOR February 29, 20247:01 PM ET “We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.” So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C –A.D. 17) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic. Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the Romans knew that they had become corrupt and lawless. But the very contemplation of the hard medicine needed for restoration — and the furious reaction that would meet the remedy — made it impossible
Read more ... →May 23, 2023 By Jack Hellner It is hard to find any data to support what we have been told about temperatures and the climate, yet we repeatedly see the talking point that “the science is settled” and people saying the dire predictions have been true. Here is a report that shows that Arctic ice, which has been measured only since 1981, is melting slower than normal, because it is cooler than normal. And that it is at 95% of the average — 5.4 million square miles versus 5.67 million square miles. The prediction was that the ice was melting fast and would
Read more ... →May 3, 2023 By Jerome Corsi Last August, Mark Mills, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, published a prescient report entitled “The ‘Energy Transition’ Delusion: A Reality Reset.” The report demonstrates convincingly that the transition to Net Zero Emissions (NZE), if politically imposed, will mean a dramatically reduced standard of living for the world’s advanced industrial societies. It’s an excellent essay, but it misses the mark because Mills misses the real point of the leftist push for a “green energy” revolution: For leftists, NZE is not about the climate. Instead, NZE is simply a vehicle to achieve a purely political
Read more ... →The ‘sustainability’ regime is impoverishing the world. JOEL KOTKIN COLUMNIST 24th April 2023 ‘Man is the measure of all things’, Greek philosopher Protagoras wrote over 2,500 years ago. Unfortunately, our elites today tend not to see it that way. In recent years, the overused word ‘sustainability’ has fostered a narrative in which human needs and aspirations have taken a back seat to the green austerity of Net Zero and ‘degrowth’. The ruling classes of a fading West are determined to save the planet by immiserating their fellow citizens. Their agenda is expected to cost the world $6 trillion per year for
Read more ... →By Warren Beatty NBC News recently touted a report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that says, “The chance to secure a livable future for everyone on Earth is slipping away.” It further reported, “There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all.” This was echoed by Manish Bapna, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council: “This is the stone cold truth laid out in unassailable science by the world’s top climate experts. We’re hurtling down the road to ruin and running out of time to change course.” That’s the same U.N.
Read more ... →VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The coup we never knew Victor Davis Hanson – Tribune Content Agency January 7, 2023 – 9:01 pm Did someone or something seize control of the United States? What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did President Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the United States as they pleased? Since when did money not have to be paid back? Who insisted that
Read more ... →By Harold A. Elkins What’s in a word? Critical thinking can be derailed or enhanced by words, their use and meanings. This isn’t a psychological treatise to challenge what you believe, but it asks you on what your beliefs are based. Is there a bias? First and foremost, words, written or spoken, are symbols with meanings. Sometimes that meaning is skillfully or nefariously crafted. In our 21st-century, complex, interdependent world, there are plenty of examples. Let’s explore a few popular physical phenomena. Ozone hole — you mean it’s not zero? Nope, no hole — not even close. Actually, the lowest ozone levels over Antarctica are still about 90 Dobson
Read more ... →BY TIM WHITEHOUSE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR – 10/26/22 6:30 PM ET THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL Power lines are seen under a cloudy sky, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) As our climate spins out of control, an urgent need exists for clean energy advocates and watchdog organizations to ensure that protecting climate-conscious energy consumers goes hand in hand with efforts to support programs to address the climate crisis. A recent Maryland study published by the Energy Supplier Reform Coalition illustrates this point. It found that residential retail
Read more ... →Garbage In, Garbage Out: 96% of NOAA Temperature Stations Fail ‘Uncorrupted Placement’ Standards 592 Eamon Queeney/For The Washington Post via Getty PENNY STARR 29 Jul 2022966 4:02 A study that investigated the placement of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) temperature stations found that 96 percent of the facilities used to measure heat failed to meet the agency’s own “uncorrupted placement” standards. Research for the study shows the 96 percent corruption is because the stations’ measurements are tainted by the effects of urbanization – or heat produced because of their close proximity to asphalt, machinery, and other heat-producing, heat-trapping, or heat-accentuating objects.
Read more ... →By Eric Felten, RealClearInvestigations July 6, 2022 Just two years ago, the National Endowment for the Arts made only one grant to an art project that promised to address the issue of climate change, awarding $25,000 to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art to commission work informed by “research on the Earth’s dissolving permafrost layer.” During the last two years, the federal agency has provided $1,369,000 to fund some 40 climate-focused projects. The 29 such grants approved for fiscal year 2022 include support for multidisciplinary artist Hajra Waheed’s collaboration “with researchers and organizers on issues such as land sovereignty and food
Read more ... →Nolte: Climate ‘Experts’ Are 0-41 with Their Doomsday Predictions JOHN NOLTE 20 Sep 2019 For more than 50 years Climate Alarmists in the scientific community and environmental movement have not gotten even one prediction correct, but they do have a perfect record of getting 41 predictions wrong. In other words, on at least 41 occasions, these so-called experts have predicted some terrible environmental catastrophe was imminent … and it never happened. And not once — not even once! — have these alarmists had one of their predictions come true. Think about that… the so-called experts are 0-41 with their predictions,
Read more ... →Nolte: Department of Defense Predicted Climate Change Would Destroy Us by 2020 JOHN NOLTE 3 Jan 2020 Back in 2004, the Department of Defense released a report assuring the world Climate Change would destroy all of us by the year 2020. Well, welcome to the year 2020! And welcome to yet another fake doomsday prediction number 42 from our renowned climate experts! Yep, our so-called “climate experts” are now 0-42 with their doomsday predictions, and this latest one is a doozy. As summarized by the Guardian in 2004, here’s what the so-called “experts” assured us would happen by now: [emphasis added throughout] A secret report, suppressed
Read more ... →.By Dennis PragerDecember 31, 2019 It is not easy to understand what the left — as opposed to liberals — stands for. If you ask a Christian what to read to learn the basics of Christianity, you will be told the Bible. If you ask a (religious) Jew, you will be told the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud. If you ask a Mormon, you will be told the Bible and the Book of Mormon. Ask a Muslim and you will be told the Quran. But if you ask a leftist what one or two books you should read to understand leftism,
Read more ... →Delingpole: Climategate 10 Years On – The Bastards Have Got Away With It! 423 JAMES DELINGPOLE 17 Nov 2019 10:15 Climategate was the biggest scandal in the history of climate science. Modesty forbids me from identifying the guy who broke the story in the mainstream media — ten years ago this month — took it viral on the internet and brought it to worldwide prominence. Sorry, but I refuse to name the handsome, brave, witty, intelligent, funny, clever, spectacularly endowed, bravura writer, beloved parent, adored husband, and skilled horseman responsible for this veritable Scoop of the Century, if not the
Read more ... →OCTOBER 27, 2019 – 5:00 AM By MARILYN VOS SAVANT (iStock) I know the Earth’s land areas have changed significantly over the ages, but has sea level always been the same? —Richard Shinar, Scottsdale, Arizona No. Today, land areas cover about 29 percent of the globe, which means the oceans cover 71 percent. This share of land area is almost the largest in history. (The most was 30 percent.) During one past era, land covered only 13 percent of the planet, and so oceans covered 87 percent. The numerical difference (29 percent land now versus 13 percent land then) doesn’t seem huge, but
Read more ... →November 4, 2018 By Norman Rogers About 10 years ago the brand name global warming was changed to climate change. The reason was simple. The Earth was failing to warm. An additional benefit of the climate change slogan was that everything that goes wrong with the weather can be blamed on climate change, caused by burning fossil fuels. The 2012 hurricane Sandy, that flooded parts of New York and New Jersey, is routinely blamed on climate change. The great New England hurricane of 1938 struck the same area and was vastly worse, killing more than 600 persons. That could not be blamed on climate
Read more ... →Walter Williams Oct. 13, 2019 The Competitive Enterprise Institute has published a new paper, “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions.” Keep in mind that many of the grossly wrong environmentalist predictions were made by respected scientists and government officials. My question for you is: If you were around at the time, how many government restrictions and taxes would you have urged to avoid the predicted calamity? As reported in The New York Times (August 1969) Stanford University biologist Dr. Paul Erhlich warned: “The trouble with almost all environmental problems is that by the time we have enough evidence
Read more ... →Oct 3rd, 2019 4 min read Stephen Moore@StephenMoore Distinguished Visiting FellowStephen Moore is the Distinguished Visiting Fellow for Project for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation. KEY TAKEAWAYS Gloomy stories of the coming apocalypse have become commonplace in schools, textbooks, churches, movies and even children’s bedtime stories. For those under the age of 30, listen up: You will live longer, healthier lives with more material wealth than any previous generation. Our responsibility as parents, teachers, clergy and lawmakers is to teach the children how to solve problems effectively, not to preach the end of the world. ——————————————————————————————————————– A friend of mine’s
Read more ... →A newspaper article warning that climate change was melting Arctic ice and disrupting wildlife was published nearly a century ago. DAVID MIKKELSON PUBLISHED 1 JULY 2013 Claim A 1922 newspaper article reported that “radical change in climatic conditions” was melting Arctic ice and disrupting wildlife. Rating True Origin One of the key issues in the global warming debate is whether modern scientists have sufficient data and tools to determine that current warming trends are indicative of long-term climatic changes rather than relatively short-term weather pattern variability. A text widely shared online seemingly provides an example of the pitfalls of mistaking the
Read more ... →Intellectual bankruptcy, underwritten by name-calling and intimidation. bySCOTT MCKAYJuly 29, 2019, 11:59 PMMatt Smith Photographer/Shutterstock.com We just concluded one of the strangest, and most illuminating, weeks in the history of American politics — a week in which the Democrat Party, through its majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives, exposed itself as not just driven by out-of-the-mainstream anti-American and anti-civilization ideologues but by radicals lacking the political skill to carry a message even with the aid of a slavish mainstream media. That was the takeaway from the Robert Mueller hearing on Wednesday, in which the Democrats’ anti-Trump cleanup hitter
Read more ... →Delingpole: The Five Best Arguments Against Climate Alarmism Tony Heller, aka Steven Goddard of the Deplorable Climate Science Blog, has compiled a must-read list of the five top arguments against climate alarmism. This was in response to a challenge by Scott Adams, who is unsure what position to take on this issue and needs persuasion. On one of his Periscopes, Adams — creator of the Dilbert cartoons, now with a flourishing side-career as an internet seeker-after-truth — said that if Heller could produce five unassailable arguments then he would become a climate sceptic; but that if Heller failed, then he (Adams)
Read more ... →Anthony Watts / 6 hours ago August 7, 2018 By Rob Bradley writing at IER “If the current pace of the buildup of these gases continues, the effect is likely to be a warming of 3 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit [between now and] the year 2025 to 2050…. The rise in global temperature is predicted to … caus[e] sea levels to rise by one to four feet by the middle of the next century.” — Philip Shabecoff, “Global Warming Has Begun.” New York Times, June 24, 1988. It has been 30 years since the alarm bell was sounded for manmade global warming caused by modern
Read more ... →Delingpole: Finally ‘Climate Change’ Gets Its Scopes Monkey Trial–and the Bad Guys Are Gonna Lose GUENTER SCHIFFMANN/AFP/Getty Images by JAMES DELINGPOLE31 Mar 2018 Judge William Alsup has laughed off suggestions that he’s currently presiding over the “global warming” equivalent of the Scopes Monkey Trial. But like it or not this is essentially what is being played out right now in a U.S. federal court in San Francisco. The climate alarmists have finally got their day in court against those pesky free-thinking intelligent people they call “climate deniers.” Big mistake. The overconfident alarmists appear to have bitten off more than they can
Read more ... →Delingpole: The Shocking True Story of How Global Warming Became the Biggest #FakeNews Scare of All Time (Pt 1) South Park Studios/Comedy Central by JAMES DELINGPOLE28 Feb 2018 Why do so many apparently informed, intelligent, educated people still believe in ManBearPig? For the same reason that the U.S. underestimated the Japanese threat before Pearl Harbor; that General MacArthur stupidly advanced north of the 38th parallel in Korea; that JFK got embroiled in the Bay of Pigs disaster; that LBJ dragged the U.S. deeper and deeper into the Vietnam War. A phenomenon known as ‘groupthink’. Though the name dates back to a
Read more ... →The Associated Press by JAMES DELINGPOLE 24 Feb 2018 The Arctic is melting catastrophically! Sea ice levels are experiencing their most precipitous decline in 1500 years! Something must be done – and fast… Well, so claims the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and we know by now what that means, don’t we? Yep: the Arctic sea ice is doing just fine. Yep: yet again, the NOAA is telling porkies. As usual, Paul Homewood has got its number. First, here’s what the NOAA is claiming, as relayed in a scaremongering piece at Vox: The Arctic Ocean once froze reliably every year. Those days are over. Arctic
Read more ... →Peter Macdiarmid/Getty by JAMES DELINGPOLE19 Sep 2017 This is the inescapable conclusion of a landmark paper, published in Nature Geoscience, which finally admits that the computer models have overstated the impact of carbon dioxide on climate and that the planet is warming more slowly than predicted. The paper – titled Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C – concedes that it is now almost impossible that the doomsday predictions made in the last IPCC Assessment Report of 1.5 degrees C warming above pre-industrial levels by 2022 will come true. In order for that to happen, temperatures would have to rise by a massive
Read more ... →AP/Tassanee Vejpongsa by JAMES DELINGPOLE6 Dec 20173,496 Alarmist scientists have been caught red-handed tampering with raw data in order to exaggerate sea level rise. The raw (unadjusted) data from three Indian Ocean gauges – Aden, Karachi and Mumbai – showed that local sea level trends in the last 140 years had been very gently rising, neutral or negative (ie sea levels had fallen). But after the evidence had been adjusted by tidal records gatekeepers at the global databank Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) it suddenly showed a sharp and dramatic rise. The whistle was blown by two Australian scientists Dr. Albert Parker and Dr. Clifford Ollier in a paper
Read more ... →Investor’s Business Daily 5:43 PM ET Global Hot Air: Here’s a United Nations climate report that environmentalists probably don’t want anybody to read. It says that even if every country abides by the grand promises they made last year in Paris to reduce greenhouse gases, the planet would still be “doomed.” Autoplay: On | OffWhen President Obama hitched America to the Paris accords in 2016, he declared that it was “the moment that we finally decided to save our planet.” And when Trump pulled out of the deal this year, he was berated by legions of environmentalists for killing it.But it turns out that the
Read more ... →TENSELTOWN TRAVELOGUE BY PATRICK COURRIELCHE WITH ADRYANA CORTEZ Tinseltown Travelogue is a three-part series exploring Hollywood’s stunning hypocrisy and institutionalized bigotry. This story, months in the making, comes on the heels of the explosive New York Times exposé of alleged sexual misconduct over decades by Tinseltown’s most celebrated producer, Harvey Weinstein, and further unmasks an industry in the midst of an ethical unraveling. Instead of confronting Hollywood’s biggest “open secret” of systemic moral decay, Tinseltown’s elite have chosen to exhibit disdain for everyday Americans through brutal mockery and relentless attacks on their beliefs. Wrapped in scandal and historic box office lows,
Read more ... →ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images by JAMES DELINGPOLE24 Oct 2017340 When I reported earlier this year on the 58 scientific papers published in 2017 that say global warming is a myth the greenies’ heads exploded. Since then, that figure has risen to 400 scientific papers. Can you imagine the misery and consternation and horror this is going to cause in the corrupt, rancid, rent-seeking world of the Climate Industrial Complex? I can. It will look something like this. Just to be clear, so the greenies can’t bleat about being misrepresented, here is what these various papers say: Modern temperatures, sea levels, and extreme weather events are neither unusual
Read more ... →The 97 Percent Solution (Richard Nelson) October 8, 2015 Unable to address Texas senator Ted Cruz’s questions about “the Pause” — the apparent global-warming standstill, now almost 19 years long — at Tuesday’s meeting of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Sierra Club president Aaron Mair, after an uncomfortable pause of his own, appealed to authority: “Ninety-seven percent of scientists concur and agree that there is global warming and anthropogenic impact,” he stated multiple times. The myth of an almost-unanimous climate-change consensus is pervasive. Last May, the White House tweeted: “Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made
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