There is still some cachet for scientists in “climate change”, but that is obviously waning, says statistician William Briggs. Unless somebody comes up with a new angle to intrigue other scientists on how we’re all doomed, then fatigue will continue driving the numbers of climate change articles lower.
Gerrit Hiemstra, a well-known retired Dutch TV weatherman, was given the opportunity to ramble on for several minutes about the hot and dry summer in Europe during a highly-rated talk show on public service television. Naturally, according to him, the summer was the result of climate change, and Hiemstra also had a solution: stop filling up your car and eating meatballs. In the article below, Marcel Crok picks apart the claims made by Hiemstra.
Climate change should be regarded as a manageable factor rather than an existential threat to global food supplies. Humanity has repeatedly demonstrated an ability to increase agricultural productivity faster than population growth, says Karl Iver Dahl-Madsen.
Why are the climate ambulance chasers now way out in Nepal? The reason is that there’s little weather action anywhere else that would support the alarmist climate narrative – not even in the Arctic, says Pierre Gosselin.
Already the Climate Porn industry is using the ghastly death and destruction in Nepal to sell Net Zero and Socialism, even though landslides have always happened, and there was a far worse one in 1190 AD, says Jo Nova.
The devastating Nepal-Tibet disaster was quickly linked to climate change. Yet its precise causes remain under investigation, while glacier collapses, ice-rock avalanches and outburst floods have occurred for centuries. Population growth, development and vulnerability also shape the scale of the losses.
Human-caused global warming is a modest problem. It is not an existential threat to humanity, says popular American meteorologist Cliff Mass.
In a series of articles on extreme weather attribution, physicist Ralph B. Alexander examines whether observational evidence supports claims that weather extremes are becoming more frequent or intense. Following his previous article on droughts, this installment focuses on floods.
Climate scientist and public-policy scholar Roger Pielke Jr. argues that the climate debate has become increasingly detached from the underlying evidence. In a wide-ranging interview on the Love Journalism show, Pielke discussed extreme weather, climate scenarios, decarbonisation, energy policy, political polarisation, journalism and his transition from academia to becoming one of Substack’s most widely read climate writers.
In a series of articles on extreme weather attribution, physicist Ralph B. Alexander examines whether observational evidence supports claims that weather extremes are becoming more frequent or intense. Following his previous article on droughts, this installment focuses on floods.
