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The noble corruption of climate science – ‘Starting their analysis in (cooler) 1970’s makes current conditions look extraordinary’

https://fabiusmaximus.com/2019/04/11/noble-corruption-of-climate-science/ Summary:  This is a story of climate science, tracing from its enthusiastic beginnings as small field – warning of a global threat –to its rich and increasingly desperate present. It is a long story, with a climax at the end. The climate change campaign hits a dead end On 24 June 1988, James Hansen’s testimony […]

Michael Shellenberger: ‘Working together, Brown & Sierra Club killed so many nuclear power plants between 1976 and 1979 that, had they been built, California would today be generating all of its electricity from zero-emissions sources’

By Michael Shellenberger Everybody from Greenpeace to student activist Greta Thunberg to Green New Dealer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) says we have to transition from fossil fuels to renewables in order to save the climate. But if solar and wind are substitutes for fossil fuels, why are the world’s biggest oil and gas firms promoting them? […]

Climate Guilt: ‘Flight shame’ has Swedes rethinking air travel

Stockholm (AFP) – Saddled with long dark winters at home, Swedes have for decades been frequent flyers seeking out sunnier climes, but a growing number are changing their ways because of air travel’s impact on the climate. “Flygskam”, or flight shame, has become a buzz word referring to feeling guilt over the environmental effects of […]