2007 book: The Improving State of the World: Why We’re Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet
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About that 'warmer temperatures increase violence' claim…real world crime data doesn't support it
Readers surely recall the wild claim yesterday made by researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley who reported in the journal Science that even slight spikes in temperature…
Goklany on Copenhagen and climate change health risks
This essay was sent to me just about the time “climategate” broke. I regret the delay in publishing it but it is still relevant to the upcoming Copenhagen conference. –…
The Improving State of the World
Date: 09/29/2010 Link copied to clipboard Sorry, your browser does not allow copying links Author: Indur M. Goklany Topic: Alarmism Organisation: Book Length: Date: 09/29/2010 Link copied to clipboard Sorry,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #541
“It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best…
Weekly Climate And Energy News Roundup #441
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge…
Death and disease from climate-sensitive diseases and events are small relative to those from all causes, and getting smaller
Indur M. Goklany Between 1990 and 2017, the cumulative age-standardized death rate (ASDRs) from climate-sensitive diseases and events (CSDEs) dropped from 8.1% of the all-cause ASDR to 5.5%, while the…
#coronavirus How to analyze and not analyze #COVID-19 deaths
Guest essay by Indur M. Goklany Don’t look just at deaths from coronavirus, look at cumulative deaths from comorbidities. Since most people dying from coronavirus also exhibit comorbidities,[1] and it…
Smears and science denial from the New York Times
Reposted from the Fabius Maximus Blog By Larry Kummer, Editor / 6 March 2020 Summary: We’re ignorant about the world because we read the news. Here’s today’s example from the…
Fact-checking the NY Times’ “Lies”
News Review by Kip Hansen – 4 March 2020 The NY Times has been at it again – this time printing bald-faced inaccuracies (some might call it lying….). Hiroko…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #335
The Week That Was: 2018-11-10 (November 10, 2018) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The people who are supposed to…
Does Air Pollution Really Shorten Life Spans?
Guest essay by Dr. Indur M. Goklany Periodically we are flooded with reports of air pollution episodes in various developing countries, and claims of their staggering death toll, and consequent reductions…
The Overlooked Ecological Benefits of Fertilizer (and Fossil Fuel) Use
Guest essay by Indur M. Goklany The BBC in an otherwise good article by Tim Harford, the well-known economist and a regular contributor to The Financial Times and Slate, reminds…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #205
The Week That Was: 2015-11-14 (November 14, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #187
The Week That Was: 2015-07-11 (July 11, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…
Have Fossil Fuels Diminished the World’s Sustainability and Resilience?
Guest essay by Indur M. Goklany The recent Papal Encyclical on the environment’s endorsement of “changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat…warming,” and drastic reductions in carbon…
Winters not Summers Increase Mortality and Stress the Economy
Guest essay by Joseph D’Aleo and Allan MacRae Global warming alarmists continue to over-emphasize the danger of heat and ignore cold in their papers and in stories for the media.…
What is the Optimum Temperature with respect to human mortality?
By Indur M. Goklany It is well known that the risk of mortality increases at both the high and low ends of the temperature range experienced by a particular population.[1],[2],[3]…
From #AAAS Why Some (Many?) Scientists Tend to Hype their Findings
Guest essay By Indur M. Goklany In case there was any doubt that many scientists are like the rest of humanity, not to mention Brian Williams, the Pew Research Center…
Which is responsible for more U.S. deaths — Excessive Heat or Excessive Cold?
Dr. Indur Goklany writes: Earlier today on WUWT in the post, UHI and Heat Related Mortality, a researcher from Arizona claims that, “Extreme heat is the leading weather-related killer in…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2013-01-12 (January 12, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: We do not believe any…
Is Climate Change the Number One Threat to Humanity?
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany I have a new paper in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, which asks the question, Is Climate Change the Number One Threat to Humanity?…
Hansen's Death Trains – now with extra scary 'coal fallout'
WUWT readers surely remember this: NASA’s Dr. James Hansen once again goes over the top. See his most recent article in the UK Guardian. Some excerpts: “The trains carrying coal…
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