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Peer-reviewed Study: Arctic and Subarctic Species Benefit from Global Warming

Published January 4, 2013

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #75Global warming will benefit most Arctic and sub-Arctic species, a team of scientists report in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One.
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Real-World Data Show Warming Is Modest, Beneficial

Published December 21, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #74It has been nearly 25 years since James Hansen first regaled Congress with predictions of imminent global warming doom and gloom.
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IPCC Doubles down on Bias, Incompetence

Published December 14, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #73The United Nations is doubling down on ignorance and bias for its upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, according to investigative journalist Donna Laframboise.
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Scientific Method Defeats Alarmists in Germany

Published December 7, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #72Subscribe to this newsletter here.The Scientific Method struck a valiant blow against climate denialism in Germany this week, as scientists from around the globe gathered to sort out climate change facts from fiction.
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Heartland Institute Announces ICCC-8

Published November 19, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #71The Heartland Institute is partnering with the Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) to host the Eighth International Conference on Climate Change November 30 - December 1 in Munich, Germany.
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David Suzuki Keeping an Open Mind?

Published November 9, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #70Every now and then developments in the global warming debate induce a deep-from-the-belly round of laughter.
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NOAA Climate Investigator Says No Link Between Sandy, Warming

Published November 2, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #69Martin Hoerling, who chairs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s climate variability research program and oversees NOAA’s Climate Scene Investigators, debunked the assertion that global warming played a
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Michael Mann Falsely Claims He Was Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Published October 26, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #68Michael Mann was never awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the director of the Nobel Institute says, despite Mann’s public claims that he was.
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More Studies Find Temperatures Were Warmer in Past

Published October 19, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #67A pair of newly published papers confirms prior studies indicating temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period and Roman Warm Period were at least as warm as temperatures in the current warm period.
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NASA Says Strong Storm Caused Decline in Arctic Sea Ice

Published October 12, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #66NASA scientists report that a strong and persistent Arctic storm broke up sea ice and pushed much of it out of the Arctic Ocean in August, causing a reduction in Arctic sea ice to its lowest extent since at least 1979.
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Antarctic Sea Ice Defies Alarmist Climate Models

Published October 5, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #65Eric Berger, the Houston Chronicle’s self-proclaimed ‘SciGuy,’ apparently feels threatened by skeptics reporting that Antarctic sea ice is setting records this year.
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Absurd Global Warming Claims Highlight Lack of Credibility

Published September 28, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #64Global warming alarmists are in a frenzy this week, crying “the sky is falling!” after a group called DARA predicted global warming will kill more than 100 million people during the next 18 years and destroy the global economy.
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Antarctic Sea Ice Expands to New Record

Published September 21, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #63Antarctic sea ice set another record this past week, registering the most amount of ice ever recorded on day 256 of the calendar year (September 12 of this leap year).
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U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Continue to Decline

Published September 14, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #62The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports U.S. carbon dioxide emissions during the first quarter of 2012 were the lowest since 1992. With more and more U.S.
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Hurricane Inactivity Defies Alarmists

Published September 7, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #61When Hurricane Isaac made landfall in southern Louisiana, the storm provided a rare break in one of the longest periods of hurricane inactivity in U.S. history.
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Tornado Activity Reaches Record Lows in 2012

Published September 4, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #60The year 2012 is breaking all-time records for lack of tornado activity, defying extreme-weather claims by global warming alarmists.
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Polar Bears Doing Just Fine, Thank You

Published August 20, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #59Professor Susan Crockford, a zoologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Victoria, Canada, reports polar bears have successfully adapted to severe climate change many times in the past and will likely adapt to
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New Study Finds Half of Reported Temperature Rise Is Fictitious

Published August 3, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #58A reanalysis of U.S. surface temperature station data shows temperatures are rising only half as much as claimed by the U.S. Historical Climatology Network and other government gatekeepers of temperature data.
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Adjustment Errors Created Nearly Half of IPCC Warming

Published July 20, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #57Nearly half of the claimed warming during the past century did not occur in the real world but is merely the creation of flawed data adjustments, reports a new paper presented at a meeting of the European Geosciences Union.
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Doctored Data and Ridiculous Alarmism: This Is What Global Warming Looks like

Published July 13, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #56A new catch phrase is making the rounds among global warming alarmists and their media allies.
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Michael Mann Presentation Illustrates Flawed Warming Claims

Published June 29, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #55Climategate central figure Michael Mann gave a talk in Orange County, California last month that perfectly illustrates how global warming alarmists spread myths and misinformation to further their agenda.
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North Carolina Takes Center Stage in Sea Level Debate

Published June 22, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #54The North Carolina legislature is taking center stage in the global warming debate, voting on legislation this month that would curb the use of speculative, overly alarmist computer models to drive government policy regarding sea
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Hillary Clinton Visits Wrong Place to Observe Global Warming

Published June 8, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #53Hillary Clinton took a trip to Greenland last week to see firsthand the impact of global warming. She should have traveled to Iowa, Kansas, Florida, and the Bronx Zoo. Why Iowa?
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Global Warming Skeptics More Knowledgeable than Alarmists

Published June 1, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #52Global warming alarmists often accuse skeptics of being “anti-science,” but a newly published peer-reviewed study finds skeptics are more scientifically knowledgeable than the alarmist name-callers.