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S. Fred Singer
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March 10, 2019
Remembering ClimategateWhoever blew the lid on this gigantic global warming scam deserves a pat on the back.
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February 11, 2019
The question of sea level riseSea level rise has been constant for centuries — and remains so today.
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February 7, 2019
The 1978–1997 warming trend is an artifact of instrumentationThe data give the lie to warmist claims about late–20th century warming.
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January 24, 2019
Two decades of the 'hockey stick'The "hockey stick graph" still stands as a major tentpole for global warming.
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October 21, 2018
Push-pull: A decent explanation for how we got the MoonThe origin of the Moon is still much disputed. Here is one theory.
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September 16, 2018
Calculating life on MarsA lot of speculation, but there is a path to reasoning out life on the red planet.
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September 8, 2018
Explaining the Twin ParadoxA little Einsteinian physics to go with your morning coffee.
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September 6, 2018
Where did the Moon come from?The theory that the Moon originally broke off from the Earth is unproven and probably wrong. Here is a better theory.
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September 5, 2018
Peak Oil: A Lesson in False ProphecyPeak oil gave a boost to the anti-growth movement and to the general feeling that we would soon deplete most of the world's resources.
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September 1, 2018
The F-35 Stealth Fighter vs Russia's S-300 Anti-Aircraft SystemThe first battle test is over, and the results have strategic implications.
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August 31, 2018
Trump and the end of the 'Oil Crisis'President Donald Trump has declared that the world oil crisis has passed.
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August 27, 2018
The Supreme Court, 'Clean' Energy, and the Clean Air ActThe legal and scientific nonsense making CO2 a "pollutant" in law needs to be revisited by the Supreme Court.
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August 9, 2018
A carbon tax: A useless solution to a nonexistent problemA fake solution for a fake problem based on fake data.
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July 23, 2018
The Next Ice AgeWhile most people still worry about global warming, I am more concerned about the next Ice Age
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June 27, 2018
Remember Nuclear Winter?Fear of a catastrophic nuclear winter gripped much of the media and political establishments, much the way fear of global warming/climate change does today.
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April 2, 2018
Does the Greenhouse Gas CO2 cool the climate?Most would consider this an odd question and probably ignore it or just delete it. Not so fast, please, my friends!
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May 11, 2017
A Global Warming SurpriseWe have long suspected that some widely used climate data are phony, but evidence for this just became available.
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December 9, 2016
To Mars by Economy Class: A Perfect Project For TrumpPresident Trump can “make America great again” by planning a surprising and easily affordable human exploration mission to the red planet Mars and its two moonlets Phobos and Deimos.
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November 19, 2016
Dee-Oh-Tee and meRenowned scholar and frequent AT author S. Fred Singer was asked to contribute a few personal recollections celebrating the 50th birthday of DOT, the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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August 23, 2016
Is the Antarctic Ozone Hole Really Mending?Wishful thinking meets a desire to justify an expensive treaty controlling atmospheric emissions.
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February 23, 2016
Paris Climate Accord: Hope, Change -- and CollapseThe Paris Accord is mainly about money transfers, designed to provide a legacy for president Obama. Unlike the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Accord has little to do with climate.
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February 8, 2016
The Goldilocks Approach to Global WarmingMaybe you've heard or read somewhere that all kinds of terrible disasters will happen if the (global mean surface) temperature rises just 2竅ｰC above the pre-industrial level. Have you ever wondered where the 2竅ｰC number comes from?
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January 29, 2016
Climate Change: The Burden of ProofClimate change has been going on for millions of years -- long before humans existed on this planet. There is no reason to think that these natural causes have suddenly stopped.
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November 30, 2015
The Burden of Proof on Climate ChangeThe burden of proof for Anthropogenic Climate Change falls on alarmists. Climate Change (CC) has been ongoing for millions of years – long before humans existed on this planet.
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November 29, 2015
Surviving an imminent ice ageA modestly warmer climate benefits both health and human prosperity, a colder climate generally spells more sickness and poses real danger to agricultural yields -- with consequent famines and mass starvation.
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November 27, 2015
Einstein, Your GPS (and Me)Thanks to Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, we are able to use Global Positioning Systems. But without a small discovery of your author, they would not be accurate.
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October 21, 2015
Paris Climate Conference is likely to failParis-2015 may turn out to be a big (and expensive) nothing-burger and mark the end of the Conference of the Parties (to the Global Climate Treaty).
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September 30, 2015
For Sustainable Energy, Choose NuclearEnergy based on nuclear fission has many of the same advantages and none of the disadvantages of solar and wind. Politics based on false fears are retarding its growth.
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September 23, 2015
Methane Regulation: Some Personal RecollectionsOne day in 1970, the FAA asked me to chair a technical panel to evaluate the possible effects on stratospheric ozone of two Supersonic Transport (SST) prototypes then under construction at Boeing
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September 22, 2015
Methane Madness: Science Does Not Support White House PolicyThe EPA on August 18 proposed regulations to reduce emissions of methane. They will do almost nothing for the environment, but will subsrtantially raise the cost of energy.
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September 15, 2015
Obama's House of CardsBarack Obama’s legacy-building involves risks. Over-riding just one White House veto may be enough to cause his whole house of cards to collapse.
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August 30, 2015
Iran Nuclear Deal: what now?Politics, oil markets, and Israeli reaction all in flux.
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July 31, 2015
A Paradigm Change: Re-directing public concern from Global Warming to Global CoolingThere is little doubt that a near-term cooling is among the major calamities facing the population on our planet; concern about global warming is entirely misplaced. A Little Ice Age may arrive within decades
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July 28, 2015
Editor of <em>Science</em> Magazine Should Resign!McNutt’s editorial opposes scientific debate and reveals extreme ideological bias. Debate is essential for scientific progress
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July 1, 2015
Protecting Humanity from Ice AgesTo protect our civilization from harm, it is vitally important to understand the causes of severe climate cooling and try to figure out how to prevent such cooling episodes, if possible.
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July 1, 2015
Commenters excoriate a <em>Science</em> paper that denies global warming 'pause'Devastating blowback. There was not a single comment in support of the published paper.
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June 4, 2015
The climate warming pause goes AWOL (or not)Wow! Science mag is publishing a blockbuster paper today, June 4. Oh boy! Get ready to watch yet another big fight about climate change.
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May 13, 2015
Saving Humanity from Catastrophic Global Cooling: A Task for Geo-EngineeringWe don’t know what triggers a "Little Ice Age" but suspect a strong correlation with a quiet Sun and prolonged absence of sunspots. Experts in this field believe that the next LIA is imminent.
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April 18, 2015
Preventing a Coming Ice AgeNot global warming, but the more realistic threat of an impending ice age demands an international effort.
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April 16, 2015
Obama Expected to Bind US to CO2 Reduction at Paris Climate Meeting This YearExpect a White-House claim of a “breakthrough” climate accord
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February 19, 2015
Into the Brave New World of Geo-engineeringThe US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) just published a two-volume report on geo-engineering (Geo-Eng), invoked in order to neutralize the “threat of climate change.”
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February 3, 2015
Global Warming Pause: Is the End Near?Global Warming (GW) alarmists are in a pickle: no GW, in spite of rising CO2 levels. True believers are using quasi-religious slogans, like “The End [of the GW pause] is Near” and “Repent [Stop emitting CO2] Before It’s Too Late.”
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January 27, 2015
World price of oil -- where is OPEC now?Why did Saudi Arabia, considered to be the linchpin of the OPEC cartel (or former OPEC cartel), permit the price to collapse?
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January 20, 2015
White House Methane MadnessThe just-announced White House plan to reduce emissions by 40 to 45% by 2025 ignores well-established textbook science. Just who are these EPA folks working for – and where is their science?
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December 29, 2014
Cause of Pause in Global WarmingThe absence of the expected rise of surface and atmospheric temperatures with increases in atmospheric CO2 presents a scientific challenge to both climate alarmists and skeptics
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December 8, 2014
The China Climate Accord: A bad deal for the USChina is taking advantage of White House science ignorance and anxiety about future climate change, hoping thereby to gain commercial and strategic advantages
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November 16, 2014
A Suicidal Collapse of Western Civilization?Europe is leading the way on a path to oblivion.
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October 15, 2014
The Climate Sensitivity ControversyThe concept of Climate Sensitivity (CS) is a useful way to describe the effects of carbon dioxide on the climate. The climate sensitivity is close to zero from 1978-to 2000, and again from 2002 to present.
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October 7, 2014
Just Say NO to a Carbon TaxI am against instituting a carbon tax, but my reasons are rather different from the conventional ones.
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September 26, 2014
Does Business Risk Facing a 'Climate Crash'?With the publication of their report on climate risk, three multi-billionaires have started a campaign to frighten the public about global-warming “calamities”
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August 15, 2014
Climate Science Does Not Support IPCC ConclusionsFrom one report to the next, IPCC keeps changing the evidence it relies on to support its claims of AGW.
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June 3, 2014
The National Climate Assessment (NCA) Doubles Down on DoomWhy would the White House raise energy costs, and poverty levels, for Americans, knowing that this would have little if any climate impact? Could it be a scheme to increase dependence on government?
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March 27, 2014
The Coming Paradigm Shift on ClimateThe just-published NIPCC reports may lead to a paradigm shift about what or who causes current climate changes. All the evidence suggests that Nature rules the climate – not Man.
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February 26, 2014
The Kerry Climate CapersIt looks like John Kerry's peace efforts may not garner him a Nobel Prize - so why not try Global Warming?
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February 17, 2014
Climate Consensus Con GameWith no observed climate warming for more than 15 years, the contentious debate about a 'scientific consensus' on Global Warming looks increasingly ridiculous.
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February 3, 2014
The Stealth Carbon TaxThe "social cost of carbon" miscalculations by the Office of Management and Budget could impose a tax on Americans without a Congressional vote.
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January 21, 2014
The Inventor of the Global Warming Hockey Stick Doubles DownProfessor Michael Mann, if you see something, say something - or maybe just keep your mouth shut
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January 7, 2014
Iran's Arak Plutonium ReactorHow a successful Israeli strike against Iran's plutonium reactor at Arak would "shuffle the Middle-East deck," and why it might happen soon.
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November 12, 2013
IPCC 's Bogus Evidence for Global WarmingOver the last 25 years, the supporting arguments used by the UN's IPCC have shifted drastically -- as earlier ones have been shown to be worthless
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November 5, 2013
SCOTUS Revisits EPA Regulation of CO2The US Supreme Court has decided to re-visit CO2 regulation by EPA. The outcome is uncertain, but has major implications for cost of energy, economic growth, jobs, and the general welfare.
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November 3, 2013
Non-governmental climate scientists slam the UN's IPCCUsing the same peer-reviewed science as the UN's IPCC, a group of independent climate scientists have put the lie to climate alarmism.
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September 23, 2013
Report from the 'War on Coal'A major project has been quietly underway, within the executive branch of the U.S. government, trying to calculate a "social cost of carbon." The endeavor is (a) impossible and (b) ridiculous -- but that won't stop the EPA and others from trying.
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September 5, 2013
The UN Climate Panel's 'Hot Spot' is Missing in ActionPowerful evidence against the existence of Anthropogenic Global Warming.
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August 20, 2013
A Tale of Two Climate HockeySticksOne is real, the other is not. The evidence presented here will cause unhappiness for both extreme alarmists and extreme skeptics. Maybe that's a good thing.
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July 31, 2013
Sea Level Rise SurpriseThe most widely feared consequence of Global Warming appears to be a catastrophic rise in sea level. But the alarmists may be in for a big surprise.
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July 11, 2013
China Questions Climate ConsensusThe world's most populous nation is officially openly debating whether fears of anthropogenic global warming are justified by science.
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April 19, 2013
Climate Change Conversation AbortedAn editorial essay by American Chemical Society (ACS) officers Bassam Shakhashiri and Jerry Bell (Science 5 April 2013) extends a gracious invitation for a "respectful conversation" about Climate Change. Yet when I tried to respond, the editors of Science refused to print it.
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March 13, 2013
Another Hockey Stick?Green forces, eager to promote their theories of global warming, appear to be practicing intellectual recycling. Is this the return of the notorious hockey stick - which, in 2001, was the central dogma of Anthropogenic Global Warming?
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December 27, 2012
Climate Science vs Politics: The Road AheadThe good news is that science evidence has made it quite clear that the human contribution to a possible global warming is minor; in fact it cannot even be identified in the data record. The bad news is that the media and politicians pay no attention whatsoever to the science
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December 22, 2012
Environmental Protection Lessons from Ronald Reagan: 'Trust but Verify'In the world of cost-benefit analysis for environmental regulation, President Reagan learned a hard lesson.
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November 3, 2012
Bloomberg's November SurpriseThe multibillionaire mayor of New York City has combined bad climate science and bad politics, hoping to help swing the electorate toward re-electing Barack Obama.
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October 25, 2012
Obama's EPA Plans for 2013A guide to the slew of environmental regulations that the Obama Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has delayed or punted on before the election while President Obama is trying to earn votes.
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August 30, 2012
Winning the AGW Science Debate: Here's HowThe upcoming election battles may be unique in offering for the first time a debate about global warming. Paul Ryan is an assertive skeptic. Here are the questions to ask.
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August 20, 2012
Paul Ryan, the Perfect Anti-GoreVice-president hopeful Paul D. Ryan is the polar opposite to former VP Al Gore. Mitt Romney is obviously comfortable with that stance and is using Ryan to reposition himself on the issue of global warming and energy.
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June 11, 2012
'Cap and Trade' For CO2 Needs a Stake through the HeartGlobal Carbon Market trading (practically all EU) climbed to $176 billion in 2011, which makes it makes it about the same value as total global wheat production -- which supplies about 20% of the calories consumed by the 7 billion people on planet Earth.
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May 30, 2012
Romney's Historic Opportunity: Low-Cost Energy Fuels Economic RecoveryRomney can clinch the election by detailing an energy policy that restores jobs, prosperity, and American economic leadership. "To be credible, a reform agenda must have some reform substance."
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April 11, 2012
Cheap Natural Gas Heralds an Energy RevolutionAll bets are off for the future of energy in the United States and, indeed, the world.
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April 5, 2012
Climategate Heads to CourtOne way or another, the truth will come out. And when it does, we will witness a major earthquake that will encompass IPCC scientists, politicians in America and Europe, and the U.N.
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March 28, 2012
The Gas Price Kerfuffle: Obama's Achilles Heel?President Obama will find himself in a tight spot this year as methods to lower U.S. gas prices become more obvious.
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March 7, 2012
EPA Endangers Human Health and WelfareThe lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's regulation of greenhouse gas emissions using the Clean Air Act demonstrates the harm to human welfare from regulating carbon dioxide.
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March 4, 2012
Europe's Airline Tax Lacks Science SupportThe initial tax burden is tiny but is bound to rise as the EU lowers the cap on emissions. Is a trade war in the offing?
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February 29, 2012
Climate Deniers Are Giving Us Skeptics a Bad NameOn the one side are the "warmistas," with fixed views about apocalyptic man-made global warming; at the other extreme are the "deniers." Somewhere in the middle are climate skeptics.
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February 25, 2012
Obama Skins the CatHow White House ideology circumvents the Congress and impoverishes American households by making energy prices "skyrocket."
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February 20, 2012
The Heartland Institute FlapOpponents of the free-market think-tank use fraud to extract private documents but are tripped up when they forge a Confidential Planning Memorandum
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January 31, 2012
Hormuz HysteriaThere has been much unnecessary concern about Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz.
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January 2, 2012
Fake! Fake! Fake! Fake!One of the world's leading global warming skeptics lays it on the line.
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November 28, 2011
Durban Climate Conference: The Dream FadesThings don't look promising for the perennial climate confab which convenes in Durban, South Africa today.
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November 17, 2011
Why BEST Will Not Settle the Climate DebateThere's quite a buzz surrounding the release of warming results from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project. The reaction of the "warmistas" has been jubilant, yet hilariously wrong.
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October 21, 2011
Cain's Valuable 9-9-9 PlanIt is bold, tries to balance all methods of taxation, and contains many valuable ideas. It's not just for true Conservatives and Independents; some of its features should appeal to Democrats, populists, and to the sensible fringe
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October 15, 2011
EPA's CO2 Endangerment Finding is EndangeredThe US Supreme Court authorized the EPA to consider the greenhouse gas CO2 as a 'pollutant' under the terms of the Clean Air Act -- provided EPA could demonstrate that CO2 posed a threat to human health and welfare. Turns out, they can't.
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July 11, 2011
A World Food Crisis?The latest disaster forecast comes to us from climate alarmists who focus on a world food crisis, supposedly as a consequence of global warming (GW). They are dead wrong.
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June 21, 2011
Science and Smear MerchantsWith billions at stake in scientific scare-mongering, opponents of the panic merchants are subject to smear campaigns.
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May 21, 2011
Regulation Cannot Control Malignant MelanomaIt turns out that melanoma may have nothing to do with the alleged depletion of the ozone layer, the Antarctic Ozone Hole, or Freons.
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May 14, 2011
Regulation Cannot Control Malignant MelanomaMelanoma has little to do with ozone or Freons. The Montreal Protocol will do nothing to stop the rise in melanoma cases.
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April 22, 2011
The Sustainable Development HoaxIt masquerades as a call for clean air, green energy, and suggests a pristine bucolic existence for us and our progeny -- forever
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March 31, 2011
Adventures in Federal Budget CuttingI have served in five different positions under both Republican and Democrat administrations and have had some modest success in cutting authorized spending. But at quite a personal cost.
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March 13, 2011
Good bye, KyotoThe 1997 Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, after surviving 15 years, mostly spent on life support. It was a fraud right from Day One.
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February 19, 2011
What do Climate Data Really Show? The Berkeley Climate Data ProjectCautious optimism for getting reliable data on climate -- from Berkeley!
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February 18, 2011
The Sad State of the State of CaliforniaMany must be wondering whether the state of California is beyond repair.
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February 14, 2011
Egypt needs an enemyThe military is likely to do the same thing as any other Egyptian dictator. They will invent an outside enemy
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December 27, 2010
CARB's Carbon CapersIn a nearly unanimous vote, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) just approved a statewide cap-and-trade scheme to limit emissions of carbon dioxide from six hundred major industrial plants.
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December 19, 2010
Secondhand Smoke, Lung Cancer, and the Global Warming DebateThe tobacco-smoking issue has become a favorite tool for discrediting climate skeptics.
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November 29, 2010
The Cancun Climate CapersA two-week extravaganza of sand, surf, and tequila-sours as 20,000 mostly taxpayer-funded "experts" seek something -- anything -- to claim as a victory over "climate change."
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November 14, 2010
The Global Warming Court BattleIn Virginia, a court battle is underway to release data that could reveal the truth of the Climategate scandal.
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November 7, 2010
Climate Alarmism at the New York TimesThe New York Times is doing a disservice to its readers and to the US public in stoking unreasonable fears not based on solid science
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November 5, 2010
The Green Bubble Is about to BurstThere is a revolution coming that is likely to burst the green global warming bubble: the temperature trends used by the IPCC is likely to turn out to be fake.
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November 3, 2010
The French Academy Lays an EggThe august French Academy has spoken...and stained its record for years to come.
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August 5, 2010
The Renewable Electricity Standard is a Hoax, a Fraud, and a Rip-OffThe U.S. Senate's proposed Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) would force electric utilities to generate a large and increasing percentage of their power from wind and solar.
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April 14, 2010
ClimateGate WhitewashThere is now a desperate effort afoot by assorted climate alarmists to explain away the revelations of the incriminating e-mails leaked last year from the University of East Anglia.