If alarmists get what they want at the climate gabfest, the consequences will be disastrousThe Senate will not approve or appropriate money for anything President Obama might agree to in Paris, and developing countries will not (and should not) stop building coal-fired power plants and using fossil fuels to lift billions out of abject poverty.…
Marita Noon
Hope for our water woes found in fracking technologies
For years, water, or, more accurately, its scarcity, has been predicted to be the next doomsday scenario. In 1994, the American Philosophical Society published a book bearing the title: I Is water our next crisis? In 2007, NBC featured: Crisis feared as U.S. water supplies dry up. More recently, in 2011, NPR did a story…
David Legates
Reducing CO2 Emissions as a Precaution against Possible ‘Climate Change’ is All Pain, No Gain
Originally published in The Stream. The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris is about to begin, so climate change alarmists will again be trumpeting Principle #15 of the 1992 Rio Declaration, also known as the Precautionary Principle: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according…
Science and Environmental Policy Project
Science & Environmental Policy Project
The Week That Was December 12th, 2015Quote of the Week “The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very brilliant, they are always perfectly genuine. He neither endeavours to…
Marita Noon
Fault found with the facts in the President’s presentation in Paris
Paris, the City of Light, which earned its moniker by being an early adapter of natural gas to light its public spaces, is currently hosting COP21(the 21st Conference of the Parties)–often referred to as the UN Climate Change Conference–that aims to end the use of fossil fuels. There, more than 150 world leaders gathered under…
Heartland Institute
CLIMATE CHANGE WEEKLY #195:
Cruz Climate Hearing Puts Data Over Dogma U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), chairman of the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, convened a hearing on December 8 titled “Data or Dogma? Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate over the Magnitude of Human Impact on Earth’s Climate.” A number of noted scientists gave presentations at the…