If you’ve been keeping up with the fracking debate and the recent California drought, you’ve probably been hearing a lot of conflicting stories. And all the while, California is so dry, it felt it needed to put historic water restrictions in place. But is fracking causing the water shortage? Not by sheer consumption, no: [Environmentalists […]
Continue reading →Judith Curry is a scientist who has been hard at work unraveling what she calls the wicked problem of climate change. In this particular case, she doesn’t use the word wicked in a moral sense, though her detractors almost always do. In the midst of the UN hearing on climate change, Curry’s testimony was a […]
Continue reading →FEMA recently weighed in on the climate change debate by refusing to give disaster relief funding to any state that didn’t have established protocols to address climate change: This may put several Republican governors who maintain the earth isn’t warming due to human activities, or prefer to do nothing about it, into a political bind. […]
Continue reading →We can’t say we didn’t see this one coming. Obama has vetoed the bill allowing the construction of the Keystone Pipeline, giving himself control over its future: With no fanfare and a 104-word letter to the Senate, Mr. Obama vetoed legislation to authorize construction of a 1,179-mile pipeline that would carry 800,000 barrels of heavy petroleum […]
Continue reading →With wintry temperatures, snow, and ice pummeling the majority of the United States right now, even the most diehard climate change fanatics are dropping their “global warming” rhetoric for at least the time being. But what exactly is causing some of the lowest temperatures and heaviest snowfall in recent memory? Some scientists (not on the […]
Continue reading →A small British Columbian company named Okanagan has just received approval to commercially plant and harvest genetically modified apples that do not brown when sliced. These apples join a few other GMOs in a fairly tight circle of commercially produced frankenfruits: The so-called Arctic apples — which will be available in the Granny Smith and […]
Continue reading →British scientists working with Oxitec plan on releasing millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys pending approval by the Food and Drug Administration. What could go wrong, right? Oxitec’s lab workers manually remove modified females, aiming to release only males, which don’t bite for blood like females do. The modified males then mate […]
Continue reading →What better way to show your fight against global warming and carbon footprints than jet-setting in your own fossil fuel burning private jet? Or 1,700 of them: A squadron of 1,700 private jets are rumbling into Davos, Switzerland, this week to discuss global warming and other issues as the annual World Economic Forum gets underway. […]
Continue reading →According to the LA Times, a new study reveals that the warming that has occurred over the past century for the West Coast is largely attributable to natural fluctuations in oceanic winds: Changes in ocean circulation as a result of weaker winds were the main cause of about 1 degree Fahrenheit of warming in the northeast […]
Continue reading →In an unfortunate turn of events for all those people who rely on global warming alarmism to get other people to do their bidding, it seems that the earth will continue its current cooling trend for at least the next decade. Not to be deterred by inconvenient facts, global warming alarmists are using this trend […]
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