Claim: ‘Climate change driving child marriage risks’ – But child marriage rates dropping
by Laurie Goering Thomson Reuters Foundation LONDON, July 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Climate change-driven extreme weather – from flooding and mudslides to blistering heat – is accelerating migration to Bangladesh’s cities, raising the risks of problems such as child marriage, according to UNICEF’s head of Bangladesh programmes. “In Bangladesh, climate change is in your […]
American Meteorological Society ‘has wandered from mission to one of advocacy’ on climate change
By Mike Smith A Survey of Television Weathercasters: When Politics Outweighs Science The American Meteorological Society (AMS) has departed from the mission of its first 80 years, which was to advance and disseminate meteorological knowledge. The Society has wandered from that mission to one of advocacy related to the politics and public opinion pertaining to […]
Does NYT really believe in climate crisis? Then why urge ‘readers to increase emissions by travelling the globe’
Climate confusion: Average worldwide temps have stayed at roughly 59 degrees F for decades?!
By James Freeman July 18, 2017 5:06 p.m. ET 970 COMMENTS Just exactly how much has the climate changed in recent decades? Longtime New York Times readers can be forgiven if they are now thoroughly confused on the matter. Last month this column noted that the actions of the New York Times suggest that the people who put out the […]
Bill Nye says skeptics will die off. Instead young gullibles grow up to be old skeptics
Poor Bill Nye -he’s thinks somehow most people are as religious about climate change as he is, and will keep their naively unscientific beliefs about our ability to control the climate with power stations, wind mills and light bulbs, into their old age. Instead, the reality is Bill’s biggest nightmare, skeptics are not dying out […]
WHY THE GREENS ARE DYING DOWN UNDER
Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun July 20, 2017 6:39pm The Greens are on the way down, wounded by incompetence, the waning of the great scare they fostered and the growing evidence of the terrible cost of their policies. The result: A leaked internal analysis showing it is on track to lose three of its nine Senate […]
Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.’s talk on climate ‘paranoia’
Pielke on “Manichean paranoia” Posted on 21 Jul 17by PAUL MATTHEWS Roger Pielke Jr. gave a talk in London last night, on “Climate politics as Manichean Paranoia”. This phrase refers to the idea that “your opponent is considered to be malign and willfully ignorant, whereas your own side is noble and uniquely enlightened”, which Pielke says is one […]
White House details plan to roll back environmental regs
BY TIMOTHY CAMA The Trump administration provided details for its aggressive plan to roll back environmental regulations Thursday. In the first regulatory agenda of the Trump administration, the White House’s Office of Management and Budget detailed when and how agencies plan to repeal numerous Obama administration rules regarding air and water pollution, fossil fuel extraction and more. […]