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Climate Change
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Real-World Data Show Warming Is Modest, Beneficial
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #74It has been nearly 25 years since James Hansen first regaled Congress with predictions of imminent global warming doom and gloom. -
Global Warming Is Still Benefiting Africa
Opinion -Michel Nasibu, an advisor in the International Development Advisory Section of KPMG East Africa, attempted this week to salvage his claims that global warming is devastating the African continent after I debunked his initial claims in an October Forbes. -
Health-Promoting Properties of Three Varieties of Kacip Fatimah
Opinion -With respect to the implications of their several findings, Jaafar et al. say they point to “the possible improvement of [the] health-promoting quality of Malaysian L. -
IPCC Doubles down on Bias, Incompetence
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -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. -
United Nations Appoints Uneducated Green Activists as Authors of Climate Bible
Opinion -The 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. -
Climate Change and Winter Wheat Yields in Northern China
Opinion -It would appear that the greater warming of daily minimum temperatures, as compared to daily maximum temperatures, has been a great boon to winter wheat production in Northern China... -
Scientific Method Defeats Alarmists in Germany
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -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. -
The Trouble with Clouds
Opinion -It’s hard to reduce to a set of mathematical equations an entity that can appear out of nowhere and disappear in like manner, as clouds do; but climate modelers have to be able to do it - and do it well - if they are ever going to be able to adequately -
Scientific Method Defeats Alarmists in Germany
Opinion -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. -
How Sunspot Cycles Impact the Temperatures of Norway and Earth’s North Atlantic Region
Opinion -A significant linear relationship was found between the average air temperature in a solar cycle and the length of the previous solar cycle for 12 out of 13 weather stations in Norway and in the North Atlantic, as well as for 60 European stations and -
Heartland Institute Presents More than 16,000 Petitions to Congress: Rein in the EPA
Opinion -The Heartland Institute on Tuesday held an event on Capitol Hill with Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) in which it presented petitions signed by more than 16,000 Americans demanding Congress rein in the Environmental Protection Agency. -
Trophic Mismatches of Five Seabirds and Their Piscivorous Prey
Opinion -In spite of the significant trophic mismatches that Burthe et al. -
Heartland Institute Announces ICCC-8
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -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. -
David Suzuki Keeping an Open Mind?
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #70Every now and then developments in the global warming debate induce a deep-from-the-belly round of laughter. -
The Vectorial Capacity of Malaria Mosquitoes
Opinion -New results “challenge current understanding of the effects of temperature on malaria transmission dynamics,” revealing that “increases in temperature need not simply lead to increases in transmission”... -
NOAA Climate Investigator Says No Link Between Sandy, Warming
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -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 -
Michael Mann Falsely Claims He Was Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -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. -
Global Warming Produces Smarter Young Lizards
Opinion -Two Australian researchers report that “hot-incubated lizards achieved higher learning scores than did cold-incubated lizards,” and that “the number of errors they made decreased more from the first to the second half of the trials than was the case for -
Heartland Institute’s Comments on October 23 PBS Frontline Special ‘Climate of Doubt’
Opinion -Editorial -No scientist interviewed for the program offered proof that any of the climatic events shown at the end of the program were caused by human activity, nor could they. -
More Studies Find Temperatures Were Warmer in Past
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -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. -
NASA Says Strong Storm Caused Decline in Arctic Sea Ice
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -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. -
Soil Carbon and Nitrogen in a CO2-Enriched Sweetgum Plantation
Opinion -The results of an eleven-year experiment reveal the long-term soil carbon sequestration potential of Earth’s trees, where “C inputs from relatively deep roots under elevated CO2 may increase the potential for long-term soil C storage”... -
Antarctic Sea Ice Defies Alarmist Climate Models
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -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. -
The Mass Balance of the Karakoram Glaciers
Opinion -Measurements “confirm an anomalous mass balance in the Karakoram region and indicate that the contribution of Karakoram glaciers to sea-level rise was -0.01 mm/year for the period from 1999 to 2008”...