The Ultimate Irony: Camille Parmesan argues “Texas textbooks need to get the facts straight” on global warming

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University In a recent Commentary posted to the Statesman.com here, Camille Parmesan and the AAAS want…

Fabricating Climate Doom – Part 1: Parmesan's Butterfly Effect

Addendum by Anthony: This graph is an eyebrow raiser. The infrastructure at Yosemite has increased to handle increased tourism, and the weather station records this by a reversal of the…

AEP, Carbon Brief & The European Climate Foundation

In short, far left political foundations, funded mainly by US billionaires, have been using their money to influence public policy for years, both here in the UK and in Europe.

The “Escalator to Extinction” Myth

The “escalator to extinction” theory argues organisms must migrate to higher elevations where a cooler altitude will offset global warming temperatures. But there is scant evidence that is happening.

Fabricated Climate Crises – Scary Camp Fire Stories?

What’s Natural? Guest essay by Jim Steele Several politicians and a few scientists tell us we are facing a climate crisis. They warn if we do not act now, we’ll…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #311

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project   THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Adjusting Data: SEPP Chairman emeritus Fred Singer has an essay in…

Actual press release headline: 'Changing weather patterns throwing ecosystems out of whack'

From the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (USF HEALTH) and the whackadoodle department comes this press release that just screams “robust science”. I mean, just look at that poor butterfly in the…

One of President Macron’s Climate Defectors Speaks Out

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Camille Parmesan is a US / UK based scientist who has accepted President Macron’s challenge to President Trump, Macron’s offer of funding for US climate…

More depressed scientists

From the “weepy Bill McKibben” department. Climate alarmists were out rattling their doomsday sandwich boards again, repeating their absurd claim that a few degrees of warming, even if it occurs,…

Apocalyptic Fear-mongering: Sometimes Rush Limbaugh is Right!

Guest essay by Jim Steele,director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Thirty years ago I…

The Climate Wars’ Damage to Science

They are behaving like sixteenth-century priests who do not think the Bible should be translated into English.  Guest essay by Matt Ridley  (Note: due to the length of this essay,…

Improving Climate Literacy: 'Temperature Homogenization Activity'

Guest essay by Jim Steele In 2012 the National Academies of Science published A Framework For K-12 Science Education Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. Although the framework often characterizes…

Hotwhopper's Miriam O'Brien – Hoisted by Her Own Petard!

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes and Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism The blog Hotwhopper,…

The Greatest Climate Myths of All – Part 2.

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism In part one,…

The Lost Climate Integrity of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

“What We Really Know” and What the AAAS Failed to Mention. Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University Climate scientist Dr. Roger…

How the American Meteorological Society Justified Publishing Half Truths

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Background: In 2000,…

Fabricating Climate Doom – Part 3: Extreme Weather Extinctions Enron Style

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University An Illusion of Extreme Climate Disruption “While clearing larvae were starving in response to destruction…

Fabricating Climate Doom – Part 2: Hijacking Conservation Success in the UK to Build Consensus!

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University. What Good Conservation Science Reported Good stewards of the environment are compelled to engage in…

Wuebbles gone wild – hilarious claims of 'wall to wall' severe weather on cable news is not science

A couple of days ago there was this PR from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I decided it was just too ridiculous to get any traction. I was wrong,…

Peter Miesler Helps Expose USHCN Homogenization Insanity and Antarctic Illusions.

Guest essay by Jim Steele I was recently notified, by a colleague familiar with my wildlife and restoration work in the Sierra Nevada, that a “whacko” was portraying my graph…