Steven Goddard’s ever-informative “Real Science” Blog has recently tracked a startling phenomenon: the sharp reduction in frequency of 90-degree summer days across the U.S. See here. In the mountainous counties of Montana, for example, we have had two consecutive summers in which temps did not approach 100 degrees even once. There were only a handful …
Category: Climate hysteria
A healthy skepticism of claims by Sovietists that only expansive government can save the earth
Nov 15
Government admits that severe weather deaths are at a 22-year low
It is a frequent claim by climate socialists that manmade CO2 emissions are causing more severe or bizarre weather. Now NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) admits that deaths due to severe weather are at a 22-year low in the U.S. See here. Only 333 people died from severe weather in 2014. Deaths from …
Nov 12
DID EXXON DIRECTORS SPEND MONEY ON CLIMATE SKEPTIC RESEARCH? IF THEY DIDN’T, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IRRESPONSIBLE
By Roger I. Roots, J.D., Ph.D., Founder, Lysanderspooneruniversity.com Those who promote manmade-global-warming hysteria cheered last week when the attorney general of New York announced that he was investigating Exxon to determine if Exxon has spent money to fund research by climate-change skeptics. The move followed a trendy notion that there is something improper about energy …
Nov 12
Dinosaur Era had 5 times the CO2 Levels of Today
Everyone is aware that the fossil record indicates that untold thousands if not millions of species have gone extinct. A 2014 study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that dinosaurs in the Jurassic Period lived in an atmosphere that had FIVE TIMES HIGHER GREENHOUSE GAS CONCENTRATIONS than today’s atmosphere. There …
Nov 11
The NATION Turns: Leftist Magazine Prints its first Climate Skeptic Article: Could this be a Signal?
The climate-change hysteria promoted by worldwide governments is about to bust. Hard. The false predictions and outrageous claims of the climate-change socialists simply cannot withstand open sunlight. Already one-third of Americans regard the climate-change hysteria as a “total hoax.” Almost no one on “the right” regards global warming as anything other than a leftist push …
Nov 11
New Study Suggests that Peer-Review Process may Prevail in the End regarding Climate Change.
William N. Butos and Thomas J. McQuade are scholars of the tragic role of government funding in scientific scholarship. They have authored a study entitled, “Causes and Consequences of the Climate Science Boom,” which appears in the Fall 2015 issue of The Independent Review. See here. Butos and McQuade find that the domineering role of …
Nov 09
New Study Finds Earth’s Changing Orbit Has More Effect on Temps than Greenhouse Gasses Do
It turns out that the Earth’s orbit around the sun changes a great deal from time to time. A new study concludes this changing orbit path has more to do with earth temperature changes than any other factor. See here.
Nov 09
Government Temp “Adjustments” Turn a Cooling Period into a Warming Period
As hype over alleged global warming heats up, more people are looking into the constant “adjustments” of temperature records by government agencies and government-funded scientists. Here is a good article on the subject. “[The National Climatic Data Center] pulls every trick in the book to turn the U.S. cooling trend into warming. The raw data …
Nov 06
In the world of climate-change alarmists, funding non-government-approved science is “keeping the public in the dark”
The government-worshipping Salon.com site is back with another essay on the politics of global climate change. According to Salon, Exxon may have spent as much as 16 million dollars during a 7-year period from 1998 to 2005 on “organizations [which] muddy the scientific waters.” Two points: (1) $16 million is NOTHING. Exxon has spent vastly …
Nov 05
The Claim That Exxon Is Funding Climate Skepticism Evaporates Under Scrutiny
Here are two great sources of info on the now-popular claim that the fossil fuel industry massively funds skepticism of the government’s climate-change agenda. The entirety of the claim rests on hyperbole. In fact, Exxon and the other major oil companies have funded MUCH MORE pro-government propaganda on the issue than skepticism.
