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The European Parliament this week rejected a plan to further restrict carbon dioxide emissions, dealing a severe blow to global warming activists. The EU’s rejection of a measure that would impose higher prices on carbon dioxide emissions sends a warning signal to U.S. politicians being pressured by global warming activists to ...

Two scientist-activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison published an article in Science last week calling for more “Climate Change Conversations,” as the article was titled. Speaking on behalf of people skeptical of an asserted global warming crisis, I accept the invitation. Bassam Shakhashiri, a professor at the ultra-liberal ...

The National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee's (NCADAC) 2013 Draft National Climate Assessment tackles many important climate-related questions but consistently reaches overly pessimistic conclusions. The Draft National Climate Assessment presents many asserted climatic change impacts - some real, some contradicted ...

The mainstream media are reporting in breathless fashion about a paper claiming current temperatures are the warmest in 4,000 years. Already, however, objective scientists are reporting serious flaws in the paper. The media may wish to paint a picture of runaway global warming, but the science tells a completely different story ...

In yet another embarrassment for proponents of government picking winners and losers among energy technologies, the Obama administration pulled back from its prediction that automakers, with the assistance of billions of dollars in federal subsidies, will sell 1 million electric vehicles to U.S. consumers by 2015. Flagship Green ...

ECN PODCAST: James M. Taylor , senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute and host Jim Lakely discuss the latest news on efforts to roll back wasteful and expensive renewable power mandates from state to state. ...

A remarkably frigid spring is putting the freeze on global warming from Russia to the UK and from Alaska to Florida. People Freezing in Russian Streets Sky News reported frigid temperatures this spring will go down in the Russian record books. “Large stretches of the Moscow River remain frozen, the streets are still packed with ...

The “4,000-year hockey stick” scare is over, after a shelf life that did not last a full month. The warmist-fawning media used the 4,000-year hockey stick to create one of the most intense global warming scares in recent memory, but it quickly died with a thud – just like so many asserted global warming scares before it ...

U.S. carbon dioxide emissions declined 4 percent in 2012 from 2011 levels, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported today . U.S. carbon dioxide emissions are lower now than at any point since 1994, and are 10 percent lower than emissions at the end of the Clinton-Gore administration in 2000. Despite the sharp decline ...

Prominent global warming activist James Hansen admits in a new paper that world temperatures are not warming as fast as predicted by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Emissions, Temperatures Diverge “Annual fossil fuel CO2 emissions have shot up in the past decade at about 3% [per] yr, double ...

Prominent global warming alarmist James Hansen admits in a new paper that temperatures are not warming as fast as predicted by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Hansen observes that carbon dioxide emissions are rising faster than IPCC forecasts, yet global temperatures are not following suit ...

A remarkably frigid spring is putting the freeze on global warming from Russia to the UK and from Alaska to Florida. The Russian International News Agency reports the exceptionally cold spring, even by Russian standards, is delaying the annual bird migration. The UK Guardian reports record cold temperatures killed thousands of ...

A remarkably frigid spring is putting the freeze on global warming from Russia to the U.K. and from Alaska to Florida. The Russian International News Agency reports the exceptionally cold spring, even by Russian standards, is delaying the annual bird migration. The U.K. Guardian reports record cold temperatures killed thousands ...

Daniel Simmons of the Institute for Energy Research explains how renewable power mandates are driving up electricity prices. ...

Prominent global warming alarmist and Climategate central figure Michael Mann today attacked climate scientist Roy Spencer’s Christian religious beliefs and used Spencer's Christianity as an excuse to not debate Spencer on national television. Fox News Channel apparently invited Mann to appear on the air and debate Spencer in a ...

In a blow to Republican Gov. Rick Scott, the Florida House Select Committee on Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act voted along party lines March 4 to reject a proposal to expand Medicaid in the state. The committee’s 10-5 vote does not close the door on Medicaid expansion in this legislative term, but it sends ...

Proxy temperature records and climate modeling show current Greenland temperatures are colder than was the case in the early twentieth century and during the Medieval Warm Period, scientists report in the peer-reviewed journal Climate of the Past . The records also show variations in solar output are linked with Greenland temperature ...

Is Climate Change a real danger? James Taylor speaks with Mike Segial about the human affect on the environment. Part 2 of a 2 part interview. ...

Ohio Senate Public Utilities Committee Written Testimony of James Taylor, Senior Fellow, The Heartland Institute March 19, 2013 Chairman Seitz and Members of the Committee, Thank you for the opportunity to testify today. Energy prices are one of the most important factors encouraging or stifling economic growth. Objective data show ...

The National Park Service reports that a cold spring is delaying cherry blossom season in Washington DC. After initially forecasting that peak cherry blossom season will occur March 26 through 30, the Park Service now predicts peak season will occur April 3 through 6. In 2012, when peak cherry blossom season occurred earlier ...