Scott Pruitt’s Game-Changing Call for Debate on Climate Science
BY TOM HARRIS FEBRUARY 16, 2017 People familiar with global warming science are well aware of the many serious problems with the politically correct yet scientifically improbable idea that carbon dioxide emissions from industrial activities threaten Earth’s climate. These problems were summarized in the 2016 State of the Climate Report, released during the UN Climate Conference […]
A Climate Scientist Is Smeared for Blowing the Whistle on ‘Corrected’ Data
by JULIE KELLY February 15, 2017 5:18 PM The scandal is growing, as Congress investigates and NOAA brings in outside experts to review a key study. Less than 72 hours after a federal whistleblower exposed shocking misconduct at a key U.S. climate agency, the CEO of the nation’s top scientific group was already dismissing the […]
Gore warns ‘global warming’ will make parts of Earth ‘no longer be fit for human habitation’
Posted: 4:33 p.m. Thursday, February 16, 2017 A climate change meeting in Atlanta on Thursday had all the ingredients of a political spectacle. With Donald Trump, a noted skeptic of climate change science winning the the White House, a nervous federal agency scrapped plans to host the event. Enter, Al Gore. The former Democratic presidential […]
Andrew Revkin on Dr. Will Happer: A Physicist And Possible Adviser To Trump Describes His Love Of Science, And CO2
This story originally appeared on ProPublica. Shortly before President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, his staff confirmed that he had met with two brilliant and pugnacious scientists, each said to be a candidate for the position of science adviser or director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. On Jan. 13, Trump met at Trump […]
A New Age for EPA in Era of Trump
By DENNIS E. HEDKE In his article, Lehr suggests replacing many of the duties of the modern EPA with a “Committee of the Whole,” which would be composed of the states’ environmental agencies. Lehr suggests a five-year timeline for materially reorganizing the current, destructive version of EPA left behind by the Obama administration. Under Lehr’s […]
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Point: Trump’s Too Smart to Fall for Harmful GOP Establishment Carbon Tax Plan
Posted to Energy February 15, 2017 by H. Sterling Burnett Editor’s Note: For an alternative viewpoint, please see:Counterpoint: Carbon Dividends — the Gipper Would be Proud Some old-guard Republicans are floating the idea of a national tax on carbon-dioxide emissions. The newly minted Climate Leadership Council (CLC), composed of aged establishment Republicans who’ve seen their […]
NBC News: How Eating Crickets Could Help Save the Planet By Fighting Global Warming
by JOSEPH BENNINGTON-CASTRO A patron trys a roasted cricket during a “Pestaurant” event in Washington, D.C. in 2014. Karen Bleier / AFP-Getty Images The world’s population is creeping up on 7.5 billion, but estimates suggest we’ll have a whopping 9 billion mouths to feed by 2050. Unless we all stick to salads, the global production […]
Lomborg Blasts UN Paris Treaty’s $100 Trillion Price Tag For No Temp Impact: ‘You won’t be able to measure it in 100 years’
Also see: Statistician: UN climate treaty will cost $100 trillion – To Have No Impact – Postpone warming by less than four years by 2100 Via: Newsbusters – By James Powers $100 trillion for a 0.3 degree temperature drop. That’s a price tag that sounds acceptable to liberals, but not to everyone. An economist and environmentalist […]