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White House inadvertently tells the truth—we’re not facing a catastrophe from climate change

Today’s warming of 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2°F) has reduced GDP by less than 0.5%. That is trivial, considering real GDP has grown by more than 800% since 1950. And the same will be true of future warming.

By Steven E. Koonin, Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2023

Steven Koonin is a pro­fes­sor at New York Univer­sity, a se­nior fel­low at the Hoover In­sti­tu­tion, and au­thor of “Un­set­tled: What Cli­mate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Mat­ters.”

The journalist Michael Kinsley famously noted that “a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.” By that standard, the White House committed a doozy in March when it released a paper on climate change’s effect on the U.S.… Read more

A Swiss view of the ‘climate crisis’—a green dictatorship is besieging Germany

The Greens are rebuilding society with the energy transition just as much as with gender speech.  They have long since achieved cultural domination, for example in the media.  The majority of Germans think differently, but who cares about them?

By Eric Gujer, “Der Andere Blick”, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 28, 2023

The situation is simmering now in German politics.  The success of the AFD [Alternativ für Deutschland – political party to the right of the Conservative Party] is only a symptom of this; the real reason lies elsewhere.  Citizens are fed up with the mixture of restrictions and moral demands, which increasingly govern their lives.… Read more

Tonga undersea eruption, not increased CO2, is main cause of 2023 ‘record’ warming

Ten per cent increase of water vapor in atmosphere from eruption will drive temperatures above the 1.5°C mark, then decline. Human activity is not a factor

By Diane Francis, Substack, August 3, 2023

Smoke choked New York City for days caused by Canadian forest fires, then a heat wave followed everywhere, fuelling alarmist, “Armageddon” headlines about global warming. UN Secretary-General António Guterres said if July is a harbinger of what lies ahead, there is not a moment to waste. “The evidence is everywhere: Humanity has unleashed destruction. This must not inspire despair, but action.”

Hysteria aside, extreme weather events throughout history — from ice ages to heat waves — have been triggered by non-human volcanic or orbital activities.… Read more

Climate change catastrophism based on culture, not science

Only culture can explain why so many people are willing to incur immense cost to avert a supposed existential threat without proof of either its existence or our ability to alter its impact.

By Joe Oliver, National Post, July 26, 2023

The climate-change movement is a powerful cultural entity. It does not affirm or negate the reality of its core narrative, which is for science to decide. Culture does, however, explain the power and prevalence of the narrative, the political and societal responses to it and the apparent willingness of many people to incur immense cost to avert a supposed existential threat, without proof of either its existence or our ability to alter its impact.… Read more

Global ‘progressives’ are enemies of progress

Reasonable people are tired of pessimistic and divisive hectoring from our betters, urging us (but not requiring themselves) to sacrifice more and settle for less.

By Joe Oliver, National Post, July 21, 2023

Back in 1961, American conservative intellectual William F. Buckley sardonically observed that “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard faculty.” He was saying that the average person has more common sense than esteemed academics. His remark has even greater resonance 62 years later, now that academia has lost its way in woke madness. But the observation applies equally to progressive politicians and international bureaucrats.… Read more

‘Climate change’ is the new COVID—an attempt to shut you up

The real target of the climate alarmists is freedom, just as it was for COVID

By Jeffrey A. Tucker, Epoch Times, July 20, 2023

Listening to National Public Radio (NPR) just now (why do I do this?), the lead item was about flooding in Kentucky. It seems that it rained a lot and some streets became impassable. Fascinating right? But why is this bit of local news a top-of-the-hour blast from government radio?

You know why: the whole of mainstream press has shifted completely from COVID panic to Climate Change panic. Everything qualifies as evidence of a new crisis: smoke in the air, rain on the ground, sun in the sky, sand in the wind, you name it.… Read more

There is no ‘climate crisis’: Nobel-winning physicist

‘The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people.’

By Andreas Wailzer, LifeSite News, July 13, 2023

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist has criticized alarmist climate predictions and said that he does not believe that there is a “climate crisis.”

During his speech at the “Quantum Korea 2023” event, Dr. John Clauser said, “I don’t believe there is a climate crisis,” according to a report by Seoul Economic Daily that has been translated into English by the CO2 Coalition. 

Clauser added that “key [climate] processes are exaggerated and misunderstood by approximately 200 times” and accused the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of spreading misinformation. … Read more

Deaths from cold vastly outnumber deaths from heat in Europe

Lancet study finds 203,620 deaths due to cold weather, 20,173 deaths due to warm weather in 2019

By Pierre Masselot, et al., Lancet, Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2023

Heat and cold are established environmental risk factors for human health. However, mapping the related health burden is a difficult task due to the complexity of the associations and the differences in vulnerability and demographic distributions. In this study, we did a comprehensive mortality impact assessment due to heat and cold in European urban areas, considering geographical differences and age-specific risks.

Methods

We included urban areas across Europe between Jan. 1, 2000, and Dec.… Read more

Strong El Niño, not ‘global warming’, is creating ‘record’ temperatures

Temperatures have been mostly flat for a decade, except during 2015/16 El Niño spike, so fears of uncontrolled warming are hype, not science

By David Whitehouse, Net Zero Watch, July 11, 2023

The world is once again in the grip of a semi-regular climate alarm. I’m not referring to the latest onset of the El Niño cycle, declared in action on July 4th by the United Nations, but the amplified rhetoric about the pace and scale of warming temperatures that always accompanies such El Niño periods.

Do you remember what happened last time we had a record El Niño in 2015/16?… Read more

‘Record’ forest fires in Canada? Only if you ignore history

Pre-industrial fires were much worse than today’s, but media ignore them to get scarier headlines

By Tristan Hopper, National Post, July 10, 2023

More of Canada has burned this year than in any other year on record, and it’s not particularly close.

According to the most recent figures from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, nine million hectares of forest have already burned. That shatters the previous record of 7.8 million hectares set in 1989, and is more than four times the annual average of Canadian forest burned between 1959 and 2015. These stats are all the more remarkable given that the season is only about half over. … Read more