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Colorado State University atmospheric science professor Scott Denning and University of Alabama-Huntsville principal research scientist Roy Spencer squared off in a spirited yet friendly keynote debate at The Heartland Institute s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, which took place June 30-July 1 in Washington, DC. Both ...

Climate change politics is very nasty. So nasty, in fact, that the mud started flying even before the start of last week's Sixth International Climate Change Conference (ICCC6) in Washington, D.C. Hosted by the free market Heartland Institute, the conference gathers the world's climate change skeptics and their hetrodox friends ...

Scott Denning and Roy Spencer squared off yesterday in an hour-long global warming debate at the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change. The two climate scientists seemed to genuinely enjoy sparring with one another, clashing most pointedly on the degree of the earth s sensitivity to changes in the atmospheric carbon ...

I just finished listening in on the Center for American Progress press call titled, Climate Deniers Congregate in the Nation s Capital. The press call s explicit purpose was to criticize the Heartland Institute s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, taking place tomorrow and Friday in Washington, DC. The presenters ...

Global warming has been linked to another potential crisis this month; a severe shortage of chairs. At first blush this may seem rather mundane or even amusing, but researchers warn the consequences are likely to be severe. The elderly are expected to be hit particularly hard. Young children are also particularly vulnerable ...

The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances of those moral epidemics which have been excited, sometimes by one cause and sometimes by another, and to show how easily the masses have been led astray, and how imitative and gregarious men are, even in their infatuations ...

William Happer, the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics at Princeton University, has just published an excellent summary of the important issues regarding human carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. Happer, an avid environmentalist, explains why atmospheric carbon dioxide benefits global plant life and is not posing ...

When the National Research Council, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, released its America s Climate Choices report this week, a quick look at the roster of authors revealed how biased and unqualified the authors were. A little more research shows just how woeful the panel is. Only 23 people served on the panel ...

The National Research Council (NRC), a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, has released a new report, America s Climate Choices , claiming humans are primarily responsible for recent climate change that is posing significant risks to the environment and human welfare. The media is having a field day claiming the NRC ...

People who do not make personal economic sacrifices to reduce their carbon dioxide footprint are like those responsible for the death of Christ, the leader of Australia s third largest Christian denomination said in his Crucifixion Day/Resurrection Day message. According to today s Sydney Morning Herald , Reverend Niall Reid, head ...

In testimony to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Professor J. Scott Armstrong of the University of Pennsylvania, described research he conducted with Kesten C. Green, University of South Australia, and Willie Soon, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, to determine the ...

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), cosponsor of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill that the Obama Treasury Department estimates would cost the average U.S. household nearly $3,000 every year, claims you are a science denier if you are skeptical of speculative climate models. Waxman used the science denier label in a March 7 talk at ...

Newly released NASA satellite data show global temperatures during the first two months of 2011 were below the 30-year average. Moreover, 1998 remains the warmest year since NASA satellite instruments began measuring global temperatures in 1979. Alarmists continue to shout The sky is falling! but where is the accelerated warming ...

In politics, Reagan Democrats provide a good sample for determining whether moderate Democrats are breaking ranks on a particular issue. Clinton Republicans provide the flip side of this equation. In the global warming debate, Judith Curry might fit the bill of a Reagan Warmist (or Clinton Warmist, if you will). Curry, who ...

Following through on pledges to cut unnecessary government spending, the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday morning voted 244-to-179 to eliminate funding for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is an entity that is fraught with waste ...

Craig Idso, Keith Idso, and Sherwood Idso drafted and submitted the following letter to Congress in response to a letter recently submitted by 18 scientists urging Congress to pass legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The Idsos are scientists who operate the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change ...

Environmental activist Peter Gleick published an article in the Huffington Post yesterday blasting the Heartland Institute for coming to Dr. Harrison Schmitt s defense after University of New Mexico adjunct professor Mark Boslough accused Schmitt of lying about climate data. Gleick s article is no more truthful than Boslough s false ...

Norman Rogers rebuts a multitude of false and misleading assertions in John Cook's 'Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism.' ...

Mark Boslough, a physicist with no apparent formal training in climate science, published a hateful and vitriolic editorial in the January 24 Santa Fe New Mexican smearing climate science professors and researchers at some of the world s most prestigious science institutions by accusing them of dishonesty simply because they disagree ...

Judith, I like your blog and I greatly respect your work. That being said, I am disappointed at the title of this article. Religious conservatives do not resist climate science. They resist particular climate theories and particular climate predictions that are scientifically controversial. When Dick Lindzen, John Christy, Roy ...