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19 07, 2022

Reducing carbon dioxide at home while China keeps on growing

By |2022-07-19T13:56:54+02:0019 July 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on Reducing carbon dioxide at home while China keeps on growing

Reposted from the Manhattan Contrarian By Francis Menton The Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA decision a couple of weeks ago has brought forth a big wave of hand wringing in the precincts of the left. How oh how are we now going to save the planet, if our friends at the EPA [...]

13 07, 2022

Number of Tropical Cyclones down 13 percent last century

By |2022-07-13T10:50:32+02:0013 July 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on Number of Tropical Cyclones down 13 percent last century

"If it [a scientific hypothesis] disagrees with experiment, it’s WRONG." – Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman Despite the claims of activists and the mainstream media that climate change is making major hurricanes – such as U.S. Hurricane Harvey in 2017 or Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – more frequent and stronger, several recent [...]

11 07, 2022

Methane obsession totally unwarranted

By |2022-07-11T11:49:45+02:0011 July 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on Methane obsession totally unwarranted

You’ve probably heard that methane, one of the minor greenhouse gases, allegedly makes an outsized contribution to global warming. But the current obsession with methane emissions is totally unwarranted and based on a fundamental misunderstanding of basic physics. This misconception has been explained in detail by atmospheric physicists William Happer and William van [...]

8 07, 2022

LinkedIn Bans Scientist for Presenting Inconvenient Truths About CO2

By |2022-07-08T14:05:50+02:008 July 2022|Climate policy, News, USA|Comments Off on LinkedIn Bans Scientist for Presenting Inconvenient Truths About CO2

The big-tech censors are at it again: the CO2 Coalition’s Executive Director Gregory Wrightstone has been permanently banned from LinkedIn. What did Wrightstone do to earn the banishment? His “crime” consisted of posting charts from peer reviewed research supported by official sources demonstrating that current global average CO2 levels are well within the natural range of [...]

27 06, 2022

Critical comments by Happer and Lindzen on SEC Rule

By |2022-06-27T18:03:24+02:0027 June 2022|Climate policy, IPCC, News, USA|Comments Off on Critical comments by Happer and Lindzen on SEC Rule

By Andy May The U.S. Constitution was finally approved in 1787, after much debate. It reserved a specific list of powers for the federal government and the first ten amendments, or the “Bill of Rights,” reserved many powers for the citizens and states. The Bill of Rights imposed clear limitations on the federal [...]

24 06, 2022

CO2 Sample Spacing in Ice Cores

By |2022-06-25T09:53:45+02:0024 June 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on CO2 Sample Spacing in Ice Cores

Guest Post by Renee Hannon Introduction This post examines sample spacing for CO2 measurements in Antarctic ice cores during the past 800,000 years to better understand if gaps in sampling are too large to capture centennial fluctuations. The IPCC states: “Although ice core records present low-pass filtered time series due to gas diffusion and [...]

17 06, 2022

Replacing the World’s Fossil Fuels

By |2022-06-20T10:05:58+02:0017 June 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on Replacing the World’s Fossil Fuels

U.S. progressives are convinced that fossil fuels must be replaced with renewables by 2050. The IEA even has a plan to do it. How will this work? Unlike progressives we value observational data over ideology, so let’s examine the data. According to ExxonMobil’s 2021 Outlook for Energy the world consumed 89.4 BBOE (billions of barrels of oil equivalent) of primary [...]

12 05, 2022

What’s below the Greenland Ice

By |2022-05-12T13:55:25+02:0012 May 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on What’s below the Greenland Ice

By Andy May An interesting PNAS article discusses the deepest portion of the Camp Century Greenland Ice core. It is not paywalled. The researchers, led by Andrew Christ (Dept. of Geology, University of Vermont) found evidence of an ice-free vegetated environment at the base of the Camp Century ice core roughly one million years ago. This [...]

28 04, 2022

David Siegel: “To me, it’s clear that CO2 has almost nothing to do with climate”

By |2022-04-29T18:48:33+02:0028 April 2022|Interviews, News, USA, World Climate Declaration|Comments Off on David Siegel: “To me, it’s clear that CO2 has almost nothing to do with climate”

Earlier this week we announced the thousandth signatory of the Clintel World Climate Declaration. It is American entrepreneur and author David Siegel. He has been following the climate debate for a long time. He has a climate page with links to lots of interesting talks. He also has [...]

12 04, 2022

Blood on the blades: are thousands of dead bald eagles too high a price to pay for “clean” energy

By |2022-04-12T11:13:35+02:0012 April 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on Blood on the blades: are thousands of dead bald eagles too high a price to pay for “clean” energy

By Gregory Wrightstone reposted from CO2 Coalition Last week the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that they had sentenced ESI Energy for a “blatant disregard” of federal wildlife laws of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). In their guilty plea to multiple violations, ESI admitted to the killing of at least 150 bald [...]