Legacy Climate Change Weekly
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Exxon under Attack for Exercising Prudence
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #191 At the behest of radical environmentalists, Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform committee are pushing the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department to investigate ExxonMobil for its -
Klein’s Climate-driven Anti-Capitalism Is Light on Facts, Disaster on Policy
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #190 Observers of the climate change debate are increasingly souring on Naomi Klein’s green-cloaked dated Marxist indictment of capitalism. -
Greenpeace Founder Shreds Climate Alarmist’s Myths
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #190 Patrick Moore is a brave and honest man. -
Desperation Breeds Contempt for Free Speech, Freedom Itself
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Desperation Breeds Contempt for Free Speech, Freedom Itself Climate Change Weekly #189 There’s an old legal adage, “When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. -
Republicans Vow to Assert Their Authority over Obama Climate Commitments
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #188 Politico reports a top aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Neil Chatterjee, has been making the rounds at foreign embassies making it clear Republicans intend to fight President Barack Obama’s climate agenda. -
Pope Continues to Get Climate, Economic Matters Wrong
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #187SUBSCRIBE to your inbox Pope Francis’s visit to America has included speeches at The White House, the Capitol, and in Philadelphia. -
President’s Alaska Junket Produces Hot Air, Not Climate Agreement
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #185 In remarks bordering on the apocalyptic, President Barack Obama spoke in Anchorage at the beginning of a three-day Alaskan junket, part of his year-long “The World Is Burning” tour. -
July Temperature Record Claims Based on Manipulated Data
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #184 “Garbage in, garbage out” is an old saying that applies perfectly to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) recent claim July 2015 was the hottest month ever recorded. -
Clean Power Plan Costs Soar, Hit (Almost) Everyone
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #183 In the previous issue of Climate Change Weekly, I examined the impact of President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) on the coal industry. This week I’m broadening the examination. -
Clean Power Plan Means Death for Coal
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #182 In 2008, then presidential candidate Barack Obama remarked, “If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them. -
Even Alarmists View Hansen Warning As a Farce
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #181 [Subscribe]With great fanfare James Hansen, former head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the godfather of global warming alarmism, pre-released in late July a paper warning, once again, of the dire consequences -
High Hurdles for Renewable Power Storage
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #178 A key mechanism for fighting climate change, some environmental activists and politicians say, is to increase the amount of electricity produced from renewable sources that do not emit carbon dioxide (CO2). -
States, Congress Defy President’s Clean Power Plan
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #177 States and Congress are challenging the Obama administration’s clean power plan. -
Tenth International Conference on Climate Change a Smashing Success
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #176 The two-day international climate conference hosted by The Heartland Institute on June 11–12 in Washington, DC featured more than 40 scientists, economists, and public policy experts who shared the most up-to-date -
Members Say American Physical Society Violated Bylaws
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #175 In an open letter to the president and officers of the American Physical Society (APS), three prominent members – Roger Cohen, APS fellow; Laurence I. -
‘Iris Effect’ Reduces Climate Sensitivity
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #174 A new paper by researchers Thorsten Mauritsen and Bjorn Stevens in Nature Geoscience lends credence to climate scientist Richard Lindzen’s speculation changes in cloud cover in the tropics in response to surface warming -
Dangers from EPA Playing National Energy Regulator
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #173 If the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed clean power plant rule (CPP) is finalized and withstands expected legislative and court challenges, it would give the agency power to determine how electricity is provided -
Temperature Fibbers Being Investigated
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #172 Switzerland joins a growing list of countries whose temperature measurements have been adjusted to show greater warming than actually measured by its temperature instruments. -
Pope’s Confused Climate Communique
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #170 On April 28, Pope Francis hosted a one-day conference, “Protect the Earth, Dignify Humanity: The Moral Dimensions of Climate Change and Sustainable Development. -
Obama’s Climate Obsession Loses Allies to China
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #169 President Barack Obama’s climate obsession is costing U.S. commercial interest and influence all over the globe. -
Obama’s Claim Right out of EPA Faux Scare Playbook
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #168 Following a playbook designed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as described in memos the Obama administration fought to keep secret, on April 7 President Barack Obama announced efforts to highlight the alleged -
Sen. McConnell, States Challenge EPA Clean Power Plan
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #167 The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Clean Power Plan (CPP) appears to have few fans. Elected officials from 32 states have made public their objections. -
The 97 Percent Climate Change Consensus That Wasn’t
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #166 Despite its ongoing popularity and the fact it is frequently cited in professional journals and the popular media as proof we must act now to prevent a dangerous human-caused climate catastrophe, John Cook’s 2013 paper -
NEPA Guidance for CO2 Emissions Is Bad Policy Based on Bad Science
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #165 Marlo Lewis, senior fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, drafted a powerful rebuke of the Council on Environmental Quality’s recent draft guidance to require a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review of
