Reuters suddenly flips on climate
After a surprising flip on climate by news agency Reuters, Jo Nova writes: what the world still urgently needs are real journalists and honest media. It needs accountable ministers, and bureaucrats that get sacked. If we don’t learn from the last mistakes, the next episode of parasitic loot-and-pillage is just around the corner. [...]
EPA’s endangerment finding needs to go
The new EPA head recommends the Whitehouse rewrite the important past conclusion that 'CO2 endangers the public'. Vijay Jayaray of the CO2 Coalition explains the backgroud of this important 'endangerment finding' of 2009. Having declared carbon dioxide (CO₂) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) to be harmful pollutants, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2009 endangerment [...]
EPA recommends dropping ‘endangerment finding’
The new EPA head just finished his 30 day consideration and recommends the White House rewrite the important past conclusion that 'CO2 endangers the public'. Jo Nova calls this 'dropping napalm on the whole Climate Blob'. Marc Morano of ClimateDepot calls this the “holy grail” of the climate agenda. Most of the climate [...]
Debunking losses in agricultural outputs
An influential 2017 study argued that warming would cause large losses in agricultural outputs on a global scale. Ross McKitrick shows that there is no evidence of yield losses even out to 5 C warming (first published at judithcurry.com). I have a new paper out in the journal Nature Scientific Reports in which I re-examine [...]
Unraveling the Narrative Supporting a Green Energy Transition
This article, first published on judithcurry.com, summarizes and debunks many of the issues in the narrative surrounding the proposed green energy transition as applies to the electric grid. The purpose of this article is to summarize and debunk many of the issues in the narrative surrounding the proposed green energy transition [...]
Robin Hood, Climate, Class War and the Corruption of Science
Robin Hood fought the ruling class and its representative, the corrupt and tyrannical Sheriff of Nottingham. The common folk of London today seem to face a similar oppression, this time under an environmentalist sheriff (mayor). The contexts are vastly different but the fight against perceived injustices is universal, says economist Tilak Doshi. A [...]