Apparently if you adjust a few factors and squint just right, the 1972 Limits to Growth is a remarkably good fit for the doomed trajectory of our modern world.
Category: Alarmism
Life Expectancy Plunges! … or Does It?
“The media is alive with the shocking news that “U.S. Life Expectancy Plunged in 2020, Especially for Black and Hispanic Americans”. And, amazingly, this is not fake news, it is…
Uniting Church: “The climate emergency has come about because of our sinfulness”
Rev. Dr Peter Walker, Principal of United Theological College, thinks emitting industrial CO2 is sinful. But Jesus told us we must take care of the poor – and there is…
Heat waves and hot air
Heat waves are the new polar bears, stoking alarm about climate change. Climate scientists addressing this in the media are using misleading and/or inadequate approaches. How should we approach assessing…
Malthusian Myth Busting: Easter Island Edition
Guest “Why bust Malthusian Myths? Because it’s fun and easy!” by David Middleton You know the story… In just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their…
Guardian: The Florida Building Collapse was a George Floyd Climate Action Turning Point
According to The Guardian, all the bad things which happened last year should convince society to embrace carbon taxes and renewable energy.
Susan Shelley: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Ironic Climate Warning
The Orange County Register ran a great article written by columnist Susan Shelley addressing ironic comments made by former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who created the state’s AB 32 Global…
Global Warming To Threaten Wimbledon
It is shameful that the Met Office should give its name to this pernicious, politically motivated propaganda
Did Manmade Climate Change Cause the Surfside Condo Collapse?
by Anthony R. Lupo In the middle of the night on June 24, 2021, two major sections of Champlain Towers, a 12-story residential condominium in Surfside, FL, just north of…
CNRS: “Global warming can lead to increased frost damage!”
According to Climate Scientists, Europe’s bitterly cold April would have been colder if it hadn’t been for climate change, so we must step up our effort to fight global warming.
Academic: Miami Building Collapse an “Early Warning” of Climate Change
According to Visiting Lecturer in Sustainable Development Ran Boydell, The horrific collapse of the condo building in Surfside may be a warning of things to come, if we don’t reduce…
The Conversation: Earth Exhibits a Cold Climate Species Distribution
Academics Emma Dunne and Bethany Allen think we are heading into a new climate driven mass extinction – but they admit Earth still has polar icecaps, and global species diversity…
Bjorn Lomborg: “Climate Change Coverage Ignores the Heavy Impact of heat on cold deaths”
This article was originally published in USA Today, and has been reproduced here with kind permission from the Copenhagen Consensus Center.
Climate Scientist: “Politics Is Now The Battleground For Climate Change”
David King, former long term UK government science advisor, is heading a new climate advisory body. But his track record of recommendations includes some worrying missteps.
Celebrate: We’ve Finally Hit an “Irreversible” Climate Tipping Point
According to Professor Markus Rex, we have finally crossed the line – though years of well funded research are required to confirm that we have messed up the planet.
Aussie Climate Activists in Damage Control Mode as Winter Weather Strikes the East Coast
In the wake of Deputy Leader of the Nationals Senator Matt Canavan’s two word tweet poking fun at climate tropes, academics and other climate activists have scrambled to reassure people…
UN Climate Message: “We are rapidly reaching the point of no return”
According to United Nations General Secretary António Guterres, “these next 10 years are our final chance to avert a climate catastrophe”.
CJR: Climate Reporting is Like Covering the Invasion of Poland
Legendary journalist Edward R Murrow famously provided live reports of German tanks crossing the Polish Border. Columbia Journalism Review thinks journalists today should copy his example, and defy their editors…
The Guardian: Climate Tipping Points “Could Topple Like Dominoes”
In the face of a complete lack of problems to date, climate scientists appear to be amping up the “woo woo” factor of predicted climate catastrophes. But they are not…
Shivering Europeans Urged to Keep the Faith on Global Warming
As the global temperatures continue their obstinate refusal to conform with alarmist predictions, climate scientists are urging people experiencing last month’s bitterly cold European Spring weather to keep believing.
Climate Change Alarmism as a Class War
. Pseudoscientific episodes have all the characteristics of class war, as a conflict between those deluded by groupthink, dogma or ‘consensus’ and those who think for themselves. And wars are…
Claim: Exxon Shifted Blame for Global Warming from Oil Companies to Consumers
You have to wade through 5 paragraphs of “Harvard Research” before seeing “Naomi Oreskes”. Other outlets didn’t mention her name at all. I wonder why news outlets seem so shy…
New Scientist: Bleaching Protects Coral – But Only Up to 2C of Global Warming
New Scientist has discovered that bleaching is a mechanism by which coral protects itself from abrupt warming (or cooling). But if global warming hits 2C, somehow all the coral will…
Models vs Observations: Study predicts Global Warming will Cause Deserts to Grow
As real world observations suggest deserts are shrinking, likely thanks to CO2 increasing drought resistance, a new model based study has presented a gloomy prediction of future widespread hunger, especially…
