Opinion
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Growth Responses of Tree Roots to Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment
Opinion -The CO2-induced enhancement of tree root growth out in the real world of nature may actually be much larger than previously believed... Read MoreWind Speeds over China: AR5 Climate Models vs. Real-World Data (28 May 2013)Chen et al. -
Climate Alarmists Caught Doctoring ’97-Percent Consensus’ Claims
Opinion -Global warming alarmists and their allies in the liberal media have been caught doctoring the results of a widely cited paper asserting there is a 97-percent scientific consensus regarding human-caused global warming. -
Obama’s Electric Vehicle Loans Program is a Failure
Opinion -Mark it down: the report this month about the shutdown of Vehicle Production Group – beneficiary of a $50-million stimulus loan from the Department of Energy – means the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing initiative within the Loan Program Office -
Illinois should embrace fracking
Opinion -Sandra Steingraber’s op-ed Thursday was disingenuous on many fronts.First, she stated that hydraulic fracturing, as currently practiced, is too risky for Illinois to utilize. -
To The Horror Of Global Warming Alarmists, Global Cooling Is Here
Opinion -Around 1250 A.D., historical records show, ice packs began showing up farther south in the North Atlantic. Glaciers also began expanding on Greenland, soon to threaten Norse settlements on the island. From 1275 to 1300 A.D. -
Obama Administration Supports Fracking and Natural Gas, Despite Environmental Opposition
Opinion -Last Thursday, the US Department of the Interior released a draft proposal that would “establish common-sense safety standards for hydraulic fracturing on public and Indian lands. -
Polar Sea Ice Exceeds the Long-Term Average
Opinion -Polar sea ice remains more extensive than the long-term average, as has been the case for most of this year. Satellite instruments have precisely measured polar sea ice extent since 1979, producing a 33-year record of objective data. -
Politicians Play Ridiculous Global Warming Card after Tornado
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #92Not 24 hours passed from the time a devastating tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, killing at least 24 people including eight children, until shameless global warming activists in Congress began exploiting the grief and pain -
Prominent Alarmist Wished for Oklahoma Tornado Tragedy
Opinion -Nobel Prize-winning global warming alarmist Thomas Schelling told the Atlantic in a 2009 interview, “I sometimes wish that we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening — you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Keystone XL Pipeline Vote in Congress
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday voted to take approval of the Keystone XL pipeline out of the hands of the White House. -
After Oklahoma Tornado, Politicians Play Ridiculous Global Warming Card
Opinion -Not 24 hours after the tragic Oklahoma tornado, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) began callously exploiting the tragedy to advance their own political agenda regarding global warming. -
Holocene Histories of Atmospheric CO2 Concentration and West Greenland Air Temperature
Opinion -What can be learned from a cursory glance at the data? That the CO2 concentration of Earth’s atmosphere appears to have had no consistent impact on July air temperatures in the vicinity of North Lake, Greenland, over the past seven millennia... -
Kansas Town, Chinese Investors Feel Duped by Ethanol Plant Deal
Opinion -In 2007, the 6,000 residents of Ulysses, Kan., were given big promises and high hopes with the proposal of a second major ethanol processing plant. -
A Bee in Their Bonnet
Opinion -Chemophobic anti-pesticide groups are at it again. This time they’re attacking a widely used and safe new insecticide, but their assertions and real agendas are nothing new. -
A Six-Pack of Scandals Could Define and Destroy the Obama Presidency
Opinion -It’s been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week at the White House—and it isn’t looking like next week will be any better. -
Alaska Continues Its Record Long, Snowy Winter
Opinion -Anchorage, Alaska set a record last week for its longest snow season on record. The city also set a record for its lowest May 17 maximum temperature. -
Does Solar Energy Actually Make Massachusetts Safer?
Opinion -Earlier this month, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick announced that his state reached the goal of 250 megawatts of installed solar energy capacity. “When we set ambitious goals and invest in achieving them, Massachusetts wins,” said the governor. -
CO2 Approaches 400 PPM, Yet Temperatures Remain Flat
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #91Global warming alarmists are breathlessly filling the media with sensationalist reports of carbon dioxide levels approaching 400 parts per million (that’s 4 parts per 10,000, or a 0. -
CO2 Approaches 400 ppm yet Temperatures Remain Flat
Opinion -Global warming alarmists are breathlessly filling the media with sensationalist reports of carbon dioxide levels approaching 400 parts per million (that’s 4 parts per 10,000, or a 0. -
Pacific Islands Growing, Not Consumed by Rising Seas
Opinion -Islands in Tuvalu and other Pacific regions that served as poster children for global warming and sea level rise are actually growing, scientists acknowledge. -
Florida Official Declines to Review Costly Nuclear Power Plant
Opinion -Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, whose agency oversees state energy policy, told Rep. -
One Hundred and One Years of Netherlands’ Windstorms
Opinion -Have they become more or less damaging over the past century of “unprecedented” global warming? No. It has declined since the early 1980s to values that are currently “far below the range witnessed in the 20th century” ... -
Americans Fighting Their Own Government For Economic Survival
Opinion -No wonder the national debt is at nearly $17 trillion—and ticking higher every day. -
Reaching 400 ppm of CO2 Is No Milestone
Opinion -[The following is a letter to the editor I submitted the other day to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. They will certainly not publish it, so I publish it here. — Edmund Contoski.