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CO2 Approaches 400 ppm yet Temperatures Remain Flat
James M. Taylor, J.D.Global warming alarmists are breathlessly filling the media... Revolution). The central message of alarmist global warming theory is that higher atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations will cause catastrophic global warming. A real-world look at how global temperatures are responding to... ...
Issue #91: CO2 Approaches 400 PPM, Yet Temperatures Remain Flat
James M. Taylor, J.D.Global warming alarmists are breathlessly filling the media... Revolution). The central message of alarmist global warming theory is that higher atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations will cause catastrophic global warming. A real-world look at how global temperatures are responding to... ...
Pacific Islands Growing, Not Consumed by Rising Seas
James M. Taylor, J.D.... that served as poster children for global warming and sea level rise are actually growing, scientists acknowledge. Scientists report 80 percent of South Pacific islands are either growing or remaining the same size. “Some of those islands have gotten dramatically larger, by 20 or 30 percent,” according to Australian... ...
Cook’s Fallacy “97% consensus” Study is a Marketing Ploy Some Journalists Will Fall For
Joanne Nova... of abstracts tell us about the global climate? Nothing. But it says quite... two-thirds of the future projected warming in models. If the assumptions are... suggest they are ) then the predicted warming is greatly exaggerated. Many of the... papers didn’t endorse man-made global warming Cook calls... ...
One Hundred and One Years of Netherlands’ Windstorms
Craig Idso... over the past century of “unprecedented” global warming? No. It has declined since the... them if the world continues to warm as their models say it will ... Read More The Rise of Dengue Fever in Non-Endemic Argentina (14 May 2013) Although useful to estimate annual transmission risk, Carbajo et al... ...
Burning of Skeptical Climate Book a Reminder of Nazi Book Burning
James M. Taylor, J.D.... to address scientific criticisms of alarmist global warming theory was to burn the books containing such criticisms . Pierre Gosselin, administrator of the No Tricks Zone website, pointed out disturbing parallels between the book burning at San Jose State and book burnings in Nazi Germany. Last week marked the... ...
No Warming in Antarctica, Satellite Data Show
James M. Taylor, J.D.... Administration (NOAA) instruments aboard NASA satellites. Global warming alarmists often claim the Antarctic continent is warming, but the satellite data confirm the... showing Antarctica is cooling rather than warming. The satellite temperature data can be found here .... ...
Issue #90: Extreme Weather Events Becoming less Frequent
James M. Taylor, J.D.... as our planet continues its modest warming in the wake of the Little Ice Age. While global warming activists attempt to spin a narrative... at nearly all sites in the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank. Droughts are... were cooler. Now, as our planet warms, hurricanes of any sort almost never... ...
Effects of Temperature on Mortality in Nairobi, Kenya
Craig IdsoEven in places that are appreciated for their relative warmth, a change in the weather or shifting of the seasons to cooler conditions, rather than an equivalent increase in warmth, is typically the more deadly of the two types of temperature evolution... Read More Scots Pine Stands of Estonia Are Growing Ever Better Nowadays ...
Extreme Weather Events Are Becoming Less Extreme
James M. Taylor, J.D.... as our planet continues its modest warming in the wake of the Little Ice Age. While global warming activists attempt to spin a narrative... at nearly all sites in the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank. Droughts are... were cooler. Now, as our planet warms, hurricanes of any sort almost never... ...
Lack of Major Hurricanes Keeps Setting Records
James M. Taylor, J.D.... days between major hurricane strikes. Although global warming activists and their media allies often claim global warming is making extreme weather events more... less severe as our planet gradually warms. Meteorologist Anthony Watts published an excellent article documenting the ongoing record lack... ...
NOAA Reports Tornado Activity at All-Time Record Low
James M. Taylor, J.D.... 1986, precisely during the time period global warming alarmists claim global warming is causing more extreme weather events such as tornadoes. According to NOAA, the lowest non-overlapping 12 month counts on record from 1954-present, with the starting month, are: 197 tornadoes – starting in May 2012... ...
Modeling Northern Hemispheric Winters
Craig Idso... in an overestimation of the projected warming and at the same time indicate... May 2013) Even in the relatively warm temperature conditions of the tropics, it is relative cold that kills far more people than relative heat... Read More Modeling the Asian Summer Monsoon (1 May 2013) How good are the simulations... ...
Russian Scientists Predict Onset of Global Cooling
James M. Taylor, J.D.... 2040 and subject the Earth to global cooling that will last 200-250... output are a significant factor in global climate change. “Once solar activity declines, the temperature drops,” Nagovitsyn noted.... ...
Tide Gauges Show Six Inches of Sea Level Rise Per Century
James M. Taylor, J.D.... modest pace of sea level rise globally. The scientists also reported the pace... despite claims to the contrary by global warming alarmists.... ...
The Disgraceful Episode Of Lysenkoism Brings Us Global Warming Theory
Peter Ferrara Heartland Institute... The Theory of Man Caused Catastrophic Global Warming This same practice of Lysenkoism has... correct theory of man caused, catastrophic, global warming. That theory serves the political fashions... theory. Is not man-caused, catastrophic global warming now the only theory allowed to... organizations... ...
Issue #89: Media Display Stunning Ignorance and Bias in Warming Debate
James M. Taylor, J.D.... and/or willful distortion of the global warming debate in a Thursday ‘news’ article... the Obama administration to politicize the global warming debate and direct public ridicule at Republicans who are skeptical of alarmist global warming claims, Goldenberg describes that effort as... climate... ...
Media Display Ignorance and Bias in Warming Debate
James M. Taylor, J.D.... and/or willful distortion of the global warming debate in a Thursday ‘news’ article... the Obama administration to politicize the global warming debate and direct public ridicule at Republicans who are skeptical of alarmist global warming claims, Goldberg describes that effort as... climate... ...
Larval Growth of Oysters in a Warming and CO2-Accreting World
Craig Idso... reveal about the Medieval and Roman Warm Periods? They suggest that large-scale... or extreme during periods of greater global warmth, in strong contradiction of climate... Effects of Rising Atmospheric CO2 and Warming on Rice Growth (24 Apr 2013) New research out of India suggests that rising atmospheric... ...
States Respond to Common Core Science Standards
Joy Pullmann... kindergarten that humans have caused dangerous global warming. “This is a very big victory... Working Group at the U.S. Global Change Research Program. “Federal agencies are... Rucker says it’s common for global warming alarmists to say that even if global warming is not a problem... ...