A Conversation with Google Bard on the Consensus

By Andy May It turns out it is trivially easy to get Google’s AI product “Bard” to admit it is biased about climate change. Others, like Jonathan Cohler have managed…

Claim: Climate Change Increases Risks of Tree Death

But all of that carbon in trees and forests worldwide could be thrown back into the atmosphere again if the trees burn up in a forest fire.

Complaint of Breach of Poynter Institute Principles on the Part of the Far-Left “Climate Feedback” Propaganda Website

Complaint of breach of Poynter Institute principles on the part of the far-Left “Climate Feedback” propaganda website

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #442

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears.…

2017 NOAA Study Authors Recommended Fewer Controlled Burns, Because Climate Change

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to the study authors, frequent controlled burns reduce the ability of some forests to sequester CO2. More frequent fires reduce soil carbon and fertility,…

REBUTTAL: IPCC SR15 Climate Change Report is Based on Faulty Premises

Via Friends of Science, Press Release today. IPCC SR15 Climate Change Report is Based on Faulty Premises that Will Lead to Poor Public Policy says Friends of Science Society in…

President “Trump thinks scientists are split on climate change”… He’s right, Dana Nuccitelli is wrong

Guest rebuttal by David Middleton Trump thinks scientists are split on climate change. So do most Americans There’s a 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming, but most Americans are…

Dr. Neil Frank on Climate and Caring for Creation: A Book of Good Intentions but Poor Science

Guest essay by Neil L. Frank, Ph.D. As an evangelical Christian, I believe we should be good stewards of God’s planet. We should strive to reduce pollution to protect human…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #242

The Week That Was: 2016-09-24 (September 24, 2016) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…

Another example of PolitiFact's climate propaganda

By Larry Kummer. From the archives at the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: This vignette illustrates important aspects of the climate change debate, and why it has failed to gain sufficient…

PolitiFact or Politi-fiction?

Guest essay by Andy May This is a critique of the coverage of the man-made climate change debate by Politifact.com. It’s an update of a post I wrote last year.…

Deep-sixing another useless climate myth

The vaunted “97% consensus” on dangerous manmade global warming is just more malarkey by Dr. David R. Legates By now, virtually everyone has heard that “97% of scientists agree: Climate…

Claim: positive CO2 feedback from plants due to "warm nights" will flood atmosphere with carbon

  From the PRINCETON UNIVERSITY and the department of 97% consensus and 911 Trutherism comes this study that I’d put zero stock in for two reasons: 1) Author William Anderegg,…

AP’s Seth Borenstein gets something right (but only the date)

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley I often get emails asking me to comment in detail on an article on global warming that pretends the “problem” is worse than it is.…

Newsbytes: Global Coal Boom Accelerating Despite Obama’s Green Posturing

New Survey: Less Than Half Of Climate Scientists Agree With The IPCC’s Key Claim At the very moment President Obama has decided to shutter America’s coal industry in favor of…

In House testimony, Botkin dismantles the IPCC 2014 report

Policycritic writes: You need to read this, Anthony. He dismantles the IPCC 2014 report for Congress. Botkin’s bio: “Daniel B. Botkin, a world-renowned ecologist, is Professor (Emeritus), Department of Ecology,…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

The Week That Was: 2014-24-05 (May 24, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: The greatest enemy of knowledge is…

The self induced implosion of Dana Nuccitelli

I’ve stayed out of this fracas and watched it all unfold from the sidelines on Twitter the last two days. My entry into it (with this post) was prompted by…

'Quantifying the consensus on global warming in the literature': a comment

Upon inspection of their data file, the latest paper apparently showing 97% endorsement of a climate consensus really shows only 0.3% endorsement of that consensus. Guest essay by Christopher Monckton…

The Collapsing 'Consensus'

 Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Environmental Research Letters ought to have known better than to publish the latest anti-scientific propaganda paper by John Cook of the dubiously-named Skeptical…

Frontline responds to complaints about Oct 23 “Climate of Doubt”: Here, the Rebuttal to Frontline that PBS Ombudsman Won't Put Online

Note: I’m late getting this up, mainly due to most of Russel Cook’s emails at attachments going into the spam bin, then there was the last week when I just…

Climate skeptics gaining ground in media

From the Institute of Physics , a surprising study being published by them, which not only measures the increase, but now has provided labels for type1 through type 3 skeptics.…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity…

What else did the '97% of scientists' say?

Guest Post by Barry Woods I wonder just how many politicians, environmentalists or scientists who use the phrase ‘97% of scientists’ (or those who more carefully use ‘active climate scientists’) to give weight to…