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EPA Shuts down Coal, Blames Global Warming

Published March 30, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #44The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions that would effectively ban the construction of coal-fired power plants.
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The Intersection of Science and Social Engineering

Published March 23, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #43The question of whether humans are causing a severe global warming problem is on the surface almost entirely one of science.
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Nordhaus Misses the Point on Skepticism

Published March 16, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #42Warmists often fail to understand what defines a global warming “skeptic.
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AMS Survey Shows Meteorologists Are Skeptics

Published March 9, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #41An American Meteorological Society survey of its members shows meteorologists remain skeptical that humans are causing a global warming crisis.
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Heartland Institute Requests Full Investigation by Pacific Institute

Published March 2, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #40The Heartland Institute has sent a letter to the board of directors of the Pacific Institute requesting a full and complete investigation of Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick’s actions against The Heartland Institute.
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Fakegate Illustrates Collapsing Global Warming Alarmism

Published February 24, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #39Why would a prominent scientist/global warming activist commit acts of fraud and theft against global warming skeptics and then send to the media a forged document containing fictitious, over-the-top schemes that would embarrass
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Satellite Data Show Slower Melting of Glaciers

Published February 9, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #38New satellite data show glacial ice is melting more slowly than previously thought.
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New Data Show Emissions Cuts Unnecessary

Published January 27, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #36U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to track lower than year 2000 levels, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported on January 23, extending this century’s downward trend in U.S. emissions.
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Peter Gleick Slammed for Attacks on Skeptics

Published January 13, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #34Global warming activist Peter Gleick is taking a beating for authoring a column in Forbes.
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Penn State Professor Launches Ethics Attack on Skeptics

Published January 5, 2012

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #33Pennsylvania State University Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics Donald Brown is accusing skeptics of “ethically abhorrent” behavior in the latest in a series of attack papers he is posting on the Penn State University
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Climate Change Predictions for 2012

Published December 30, 2011

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #32Out with the old and in with the new. Yet it is funny how the new has a tendency to look a lot like the old. Regardless, some things do change, and the year 2011 provided quite a few climate change wrinkles.
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Global Warming Benefiting Africa’s Sahel Region

Published December 15, 2011

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #31Global warming activists are sounding four-alarm fire bells over a new study claiming global warming is causing drought and killing trees in the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Durban Climate Talks Follow Predictable Path

Published December 9, 2011

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #30United Nations global climate talks in Durban, South Africa took a predictable path this week with the European Union and many Third World nations pushing for legally enforceable restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions while
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Climategate 2 Reveals More Destruction of Evidence, Scientific Flaws

Published December 1, 2011

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #29A little more than a week ago an anonymous source released more than 5,000 Climategate emails to supplement the initial batch of Climategate emails released two years ago.
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Leaked IPCC Report Downplays Extreme Weather Threats

Published November 18, 2011

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #28A leaked copy of a United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on extreme weather reveals a lack of evidence that global warming is causing extreme weather events, BBC News reports.
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Temperatures Flat Despite Record Rise in Emissions

Published November 11, 2011

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #27The U.S. Department of Energy has just published its estimates of global carbon dioxide emissions for the year 2010, concluding emissions rose by 6 percent from 2009 to 2010.
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Muller Backtracks on Warming Claims

Published November 3, 2011

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #26Georgia Tech climate professor Judith Curry, coauthor with Richard Muller of the University of California, Berkeley temperature reconstruction that has been dominating global warming media attention for the past two weeks, has
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New Temperature Study Misses the Point

Published October 27, 2011

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #28The mainstream media has been spiking the football in the proverbial end zone ever since a paper released October 21 claimed two-thirds of global temperature stations show some warming occurred during the past century.
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Bombshell Book Documents IPCC Misconduct

Published October 20, 2011

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #24Journalist Donna Laframboise has published a new book, The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert: An Expose of the IPCC, that blows the lid off of misconduct within the United Nations
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Mosquitoes Not Listening to Gore

Published October 7, 2011

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #23Global warming is often predicted to cause a devastating increase in the range and frequency of malaria, but somebody forgot to tell the malarial mosquitoes.
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Gore Ignores Decline in Extreme Weather Fatalities

Published September 29, 2011

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #22Al Gore’s “24 Hours of Climate Reality” focused almost exclusively on extreme weather events.
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Alarmists ‘Find’ Conveniently Missing Heat

Published September 22, 2011

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #21A new paper produced by global warming alarmists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research claims the “missing heat” that is not building up in the Earth’s atmosphere is likely getting trapped deeply within the oceans.
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Gore Launches 24 Hours of Climate Deception

Published September 15, 2011

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #20On Wednesday evening Al Gore reminded Americans that nobody can annoy and alienate people through name-calling, condescension, misrepresentation of facts, and paranoid conspiracy theories quite like Al.
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The 98 Percent Consensus of Nothing

Published September 12, 2011

By James Taylor

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Climate Change Weekly #19During last week’s Republican presidential debate, Jon Huntsman doubled down on Al Gorism, claiming global warming skeptics are making “comments that fly in the face of what 98 out of 100 climate scientists have said.