Musings on Forest Fires, Fuel Load, Dr. Ehrlich and the CO2Fertilization Effect Upon U. S. Forests

The CO2 fertilization effect is both real and substantial in both beneficial and harmful ways. 

Friday Funny: Paul Ehrlich Discredits the Peer Review Process

The poor should stay poor, to allow more for us. Hence the concept of “never-to-be-developed countries”

Serially Wrong Paul Ehrlich Is Wrong, Again. We Are Not on The Brink of a 6th Mass Extinction Event

Guest Opinion by Chris Talgo On January 1, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” rang in the new year by airing a segment in which several scientists, including Dr. Paul Ehrlich, predicted that we…

Paul Ehrlich Claims Vindication for his Climate Catastrophe Prediction

“The next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”

SMH: Paul Ehrlich Got Almost Everything Wrong, but We Should have Listened to his Climate Warning

Former NSW Premier Bob Carr thinks even though Paul Ehrlich was wrong about global starvation and resource depletion, we should have listened to him.

Paul Ehrlich… Again?

Guest “implied facepalm” by David Middleton Worried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can graspJanuary 13, 2021 12.00am Anyone with even a passing interest in…

John Kerry channels Paul Ehrlich with doomsday predictions of climate change and threats to national security

Guest essay by Eric Worrall US Secretary of State John Kerry has just cranked up the rhetoric on Climate Change, by mixing statements about National Security threats and Climate Politics.…

Friday Funny – Paul Ehrlich's review of Steyn's book on Michael Mann's work

Paul Ehrlich (yes THAT Paul Ehrlich) recently posted a review about Mark Steyn’s book A Disgrace to the Profession on Amazon, and after reading Ehrlich’s review, my irony meter pegged,…

Paul Ehrlich: Australia will become a "third world country" if we don't abandon Mining

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Serial failed futurist Paul Ehrlich has warned that Australia will become a third world country, if we Australians don’t abandon one of our main sources…

Opinion: CO2 is the Demon Because Malthus and Ehrlich Were Wrong About Overpopulation

Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The world focus on CO2 is simply the end objective of a much larger political agenda. The Club of Rome (COR) and then UNEP’s Agenda…

There must be a Paul Ehrlich week in climate science

Yesterday, in Climactic headline shifts the hype factor between two headlines on crop production and climate was pointed out, noting that there was just a small increase in risk. Today…

Paul Ehrlich wrong again: World Cereal Production Set To Reach Historic High

There’s a surging current of alarm that we’re headed for a food doomsday by 2050—that the world’s food-producing capacity will crash before population peaks at 10 billion. Don’t you believe…

Corn up 7% worldwide, Paul Ehrlich of course sees agricultural collapse

While the alarmists wail over 400PPM of CO2, and push doom and gloom crop failure scenarios, in the real world where people risk money and livelihood, the news is far,…

Paul Ehrlich joins the Royal Society, rants on Twitter

Josh writes: “All the text Paul Ehrlich is saying comes from his recent tweets.“ And the Bishop says “it’s a hoot”. I wonder where he got the idea that its…

The Royal Society Disaster Movie: starring the Ehrlichs and The Prince of Wales

This is funny and sad at the same time. The funny part is the fact that none of Paul Erhlich’s doom and gloom predictions about the human condition from the…

The Simon-Ehrlich Wager at Seven Billion People

Guest post by David Middleton Back in 1980, the great libertarian economist, Julian Simon, and the prepetually wrong Malthusian biologist, Paul Ehrlich, entered into a little wager regarding population growth…

Climate Change Killed Your Pets

if people’s dogs started dying, maybe then they would sit up and take notice.

The Age of Underpopulation is Here

The lesson from the overpopulation debacle is that people adapt to their environment.

Yet Another “Climate Crisis” News Cabal

Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled…

The Evil of Climate Alarmism: Dissecting Michael Walsh’s: Hoax of the Millennium

The bugbear du jour is “emissions,” a nebulous, one-size-scares-all excuse imposing an otherwise clearly insane policy on a body politic that has never once voted to starve itself to death.

A Brief History of Climate, From Prehistory to The Imaginary Crisis of the 21st Century

Climate history clearly shows that we’re living in a blessed time, and that past civilizations generally prospered during warm periods and declined during cold ones.

Failed Prediction Timeline CR Backup 7_18_23

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #559

“I don’t think there is a climate crisis. I think the key processes are exaggerated and misunderstood by a factor of about 200.”

Anniversary Issue:  the Crichton CalTech Michelin Lecture

It is not strictly the 20th anniversary of this repeatedly-quoted lecture – that would have been the 17th of January, but I am not a strict by-the-calendar guy.  I post…