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  • Royal Society Climate Science Report Royally in Error

    Published March 20, 2015
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    Climate Change Weekly #164 The Royal Society – the first and arguably still one of the most prestigious scientific organizations in the world – just got egg on its face with its release of “A Short Guide to Climate Science.

  • Climate Science: Republicans Fight for It, EPA Director Doesn’t Understand It

    Published March 13, 2015
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    Climate Change Weekly #163 Within the space of a week, we’ve seen the two extremes, abject ignorance and informed commentary, on the state of climate science from different branches of the national government. In late February, Sens.

  • Investigation of Dr. Willie Soon: Smoke, No Fire

    Published March 6, 2015
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    Climate Change Weekly #162 Robert (Bob) M. Carter, Ph.D.

  • U.N. Climate Chief Resigns amid Sex Scandal

    Published February 27, 2015
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    U.N. Climate Chief Resigns amid Sex Scandal Climate Change Weekly #161 Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations’ influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has resigned in the wake of sexual harassment allegations.

  • Hubert Lamb, a Life Spent in the Pursuit of Accurate Climate Understanding

    Published February 20, 2015
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    Climate Change Weekly #160 A new report by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) details how the late Hubert Lamb spent his career trying to convince the scientific establishment and the public that Earth’s climate was constantly, naturally,

  • Top Global Warming Lies

    Published February 13, 2015
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    Climate Change Weekly #159 [Subscribe] David Letterman’s nightly top-ten list is usually pretty funny. By contrast, a top-ten list assembled this week by The Heartland Institute’s James Taylor is not funny at all.

  • Memo Reveals Bogus EPA Climate Strategy

    Published January 30, 2015
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    Climate Change Weekly #157 [Subscribe] A memo released as part of an ongoing Freedom of Information Act request examining the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rule-making has arguably revealed EPA uses misleading claims to stoke fears of global

  • Unintended and Unethical Climate Policy Consequences

    Published January 26, 2015
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    Climate Change Weekly #156 Should governments act now to prevent the possibility of dangerous human-caused climate change, even if the chances for future harm are exceedingly small?

  • The Carbon Diet Fallacy

    Published January 16, 2015
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    Climate Change Weekly #155 The worst metaphor to come out of the global warming debate is “the carbon diet.

  • Low Gas Prices Not an Argument for a Carbon Tax

    Published January 13, 2015
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    Climate Change Weekly #154Almost before consumers began to reap the benefits of lower gasoline prices after a decade of pain at the pump, climate humbugs and their political lackeys started hinting now would be a good time for carbon or gasoline

  • Pope’s Mistaken Moral Calculus on Global Warming

    Published January 2, 2015
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    Climate Change Weekly #153 Pope Francis evidently has decided to make fighting global warming an important papal cause in 2015.

  • Wheat Crops Grow Despite Climate Alarmists’ Lies

    Published December 30, 2014
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    Climate Change Weekly #152 Environmentalists delivered a dire report this Christmas season: Human-caused global warming is causing wheat harvests to fall. The message was repeated uncritically by much of the mainstream media.

  • Peru Wrangling Produces Toothless Climate Agreement

    Published December 22, 2014
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    Climate Change Weekly #151 The international global warming conference held in Lima, Peru in early December closely resembled previous climate change conferences. There were countless speeches. Developing nations requested pay-offs.

  • The Benefits of a Warmer World

    Published December 15, 2014
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    Climate Change Weekly #150 Climate alarmists assume global warming will restart in the coming years. Based on that assumption and model projections, they warn of a coming catastrophe for humans and the planet.

  • Harmful Consequences of EU Climate Policy

    Published December 5, 2014
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    Climate Change Weekly #149 The European Union’s (EU) unilateral efforts to tackle climate change have been a disaster for the economy and the region’s people.

  • Hundreds of Records Fall During Cold Spell

    Published November 24, 2014
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    Climate Change Weekly #148 Climate tweet of the week from economist Richard Tol: “The US-China climate deal is a model for world diplomacy: too small to fail” http://gu.

  • Using Coal, Oil and Gas, the Moral Choice

    Published November 18, 2014
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    Climate Change Weekly #147 Review: Alex Epstein, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, Penguin Publishing, November 2014; 248 pages; ISBN-10: 1591847443, ISBN-13: 978-1591847441, $20.89 on Amazon.

  • German Analysis Finds IPCC “Synthesis” Lacks Facts

    Published November 7, 2014
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    Climate Change Weekly #146 The summary for policymakers released in early November by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has once again betrayed the science found in the body of the report.

  • Humans Aren’t Responsible for National Parks Changes

    Published October 31, 2014
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    Climate Change Weekly #145 The climate is changing, but Professor Daniel B. Botkin believes the best-available evidence does not show those changes are humankind’s fault.

  • 2014 Won’t Be Warmest Year

    Published October 27, 2014
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    Climate Change Weekly #144 Contrary to projections made by environmental journalist Seth Borenstein in a widely reprinted article, 2014 will not be the hottest year on record.

  • Nothing Better to Do: Obama Defense Department to Fight Global Warming

    Published October 20, 2014
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    Climate Change Weekly #143 While stories of Ebola and ISIS dominated the headlines once again last week, the Obama administration’s Department of Defense announced a potentially more far-reaching, costly, and possibly dangerous public policy decision:

  • NOAA Says Global Warming Not Linked to Extreme Weather

    Published October 10, 2014
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    Climate Change Weekly #142 Contrary to claims often repeated by environmental radicals, global warming is not responsible for extreme weather events, according to a new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

  • No Global Warming for 18 Years

    Published October 6, 2014
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    Climate Change Weekly #141 [EDITOR'S NOTE: Click here to sign up for the FREE Climate Change Weekly Email.

  • Climate Science Not Settled, Says Former Obama Undersecretary for Science

    Published September 29, 2014
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    Climate Change Weekly #140 Physicist Steven Koonin says climate science is far from settled and we are a long way from having good enough knowledge to make wise climate policy.

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