What melting Arctic? US defense bill includes one billion dollars to fund a new polar icebreaker
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/06/02/us-defense-bill-includes-one-billion-dollars-to-fund-a-new-polar-icebreaker?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee’s Defense Appropriations Bill has included one billion dollars in funding to accelerate construction of a new polar icebreaker for the U.S. Coast Guard, reported Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.). Print Share 0inShare Senator Cochran said the bill recommends $1 billion in Navy shipbuilding funds to procure the first U.S. Coast […]
New Fed Report is ‘surprising’: Melting Alaska may not accelerate climate change as expected, scientists now say
WASHINGTON — The results of new research released by the U.S. Geological Survey have surprised scientists: Alaska is not likely to emit as much carbon this century as they’d previously expected. The report marks the first statewide inventory of natural sources of carbon emissions and carbon storage. The research has been in the works since 2012, as part […]
ALERT: Landmark California bill would allow prosecution of climate-change skeptics
By Valerie Richardson – The Washington Times – Thursday, June 2, 2016 A landmark California bill gaining steam would make it illegal to engage in climate-change dissent, clearing the way for lawsuits against fossil-fuel companies, think-tanks and others that have “deceived or misled the public on the risks of climate change.” The first-of-its-kind legislation — […]
The planet cools as El Niño disappears
Analysis: Warmist Naomi Oreskes ‘Warps History’
Harvard historian of science Naomi Oreskes is best known to climate realists by her 2010 book,Merchants of Doubt and its scurrilous demonization of climate skeptics as paid hacks parroting the fossil-fuel industry’s self-serving opposition to the “consensus view” of man-made climate catastrophe, but that screed doesn’t reveal the flaws in her work. A short, obscure, […]
FEAR-Mongering Newspaper Warns PART of Antarctic Is Losing Ice (But Total Ice Is Up)
Kerry: If Trump pulled U.S. out of UN climate deal ‘it would be an act of extraordinary danger to our country’
Secretary of State John Kerry lambasted any future president who would tear up the international climate agreement the U.S. signed in April. “Ripping up the climate agreement that was reached in Paris would be reckless, counterproductive, self-destructive,” Kerry told MSNBC host Chris Hayes on Wednesday. “It would be an act of extraordinary danger to our […]
Bloomberg journalist: ‘Global-Warming Alarmists, You’re Doing It Wrong’ – Arguments ‘sound more like theology than science’
This lesson from economics is essentially what the “lukewarmists” bring to discussions about climate change. They concede that all else equal, more carbon dioxide will cause the climate to warm. But, they say that warming is likely to be mild unless you use a model which assumes large positive feedback effects. Because climate scientists, like […]