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 ... →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 ... →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 ... →pxhere.com GLOBAL WARMING Climate Emergency? What A Crock, Part 2 I & I Editorial Board August 3, 20 Just last week, congressional Democrats were urging President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency because some Americans were enduring a patch of hot weather. Though more than a bit meshuga, they couldn’t match the fever of Bill Weir. The CNN chief climate correspondent said, also last week, that “the fate of life on earth is at stake” because Washington isn’t doing more to cool the planet. Yet again, pieces of a puzzle a pre-schooler could put together in a couple
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 ... →Garbage in… SEPTEMBER 3, 2019 BY JOHN STEELE GORDON + Al Gore likes to say that the science of climate change is “settled.” But of course, science, almost by definition, is never settled. And climate science has always suffered from the problem of shaky and missing data. Seventy percent of the globe is covered by ocean, where data is hard to collect. Reliable weather records only go back to about 1850 and, in many parts of the world, are far more recent. Modern recording weather stations date only to the early 20th century. And many of those stations have a big
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 ... →December 24, 2018 By Mark A. Hewitt Three months before the Empire of Japan attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi) forces looked to attack Iran for access to the Persian oil fields. Japanese forces had been at war with China and had been heavily reliant on imported materials for their military forces, particularly oil from the fields in and around Long Beach, California. President Roosevelt cut off American oil to Japan, and British and Soviet Union forces thwarted Nazi incursion into the oil fields of the Middle East. With little oil trickling into Germany or Japan to feed their
Read more ... →November 12, 2018 By Norman Rogers Green energy is an incredible money-making scam. The promoters of green energy make billions of dollars promoting dumb energy schemes that are completely useless. What makes the scam extremely clever is that the scammers have convinced the public that the purpose of their scam is to improve the environment. The scammers pretend to be earnest environmental advocates. Any really good scam needs endorsements from authoritative sounding sources. In the case of green energy, the authoritative sources are in on the scam. The beneficiaries of the green energy scam go way beyond the wind and solar
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 ... →DAVID KRAYDEN Ottawa Bureau Chief 3:22 PM 11/18/2017 A new study from the Fraser Institute says taxes aimed at curbing climate change and helping green energy projects produce phenomenal costs and little benefit to the environment. The Vancouver-based group examined climate change initiatives in Canada and around the world, all of which wastes billions of taxpayer dollars. “Across the country, ineffective climate policies will cost taxpayers billions with little to show for it,” said Fraser Institiute energy and natural resources expert Kenneth Green in a news release Thursday. Jason Kenney, the new leader of the United Conservative Party in Alberta, was
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
Read more ... →AP Photo/Heribert Proepper by JAMES DELINGPOLE22 Aug 20172,164 Most global warming is natural and even if there had been no Industrial Revolution current global temperatures would be almost exactly the same as they are now, a study has found. The paper, by Australian scientists John Abbot and Jennifer Marohasy, published in GeoResJ uses the latest big data technique to analyse six 2,000 year-long proxy temperature series from different geographic regions. “Proxies” are the markers scientists use – tree rings, sediments, pollen, etc – to try assess global temperature trends in the days before the existence of thermometers. All the evidence suggests that
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