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. –…
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A real hockey stick
In the past decade, since the release of the flawed 1998 study by Michael Mann, now known as MBH 98, the phrase “hockey stick” has been used to describe a…
Revealed: the UK government strategy for personal carbon rations
Guest post by Dr. Tony Brown “Personal carbon rations would have to be mandatory, imposed by Government in the same way that food rationing was introduced in the UK in…
Linking health, wealth, and well being with the use of energy
Has Industrialization Diminished the Well-Being of Developing Nations and are Industrialized Countries Responsible? Guest post by: Indur M. Goklany [picapp src=”1/4/a/c/GDP_Shrinks_03_1af3.jpg?adImageId=5325077&imageId=2350226″ width=”500″ height=”333″ /] A basic contention of developing countries…
A bad climate for development – rebuttal to the Economist
Guest post by Indur Goklany The Economist’s print edition has published my letter taking it to task for a pretty uninformed piece it published on the impacts of climate change…
Treasury Department Releases Documents Showing Cap-and-Trade Costs Could Hit $300 Billion Annually
This passage from page 7 “justifying” the tax is telling: “Domestic policies to address climate change and the related issues of energy security and affordability will involve significant costs and…
Possible Linkage between the 1918 El Niño and the 1918 flu pandemic ?
Of course with H1N1 influenza concerns now reaching another peak in the media, this is bound to add fuel to the fire now that NOAA has announced we’ll likely see…
Dr. Syun Akasofu: 20 points of context on global warming, politics, and the economy of the world.
From Roger Pielke Sr. – Guest Weblog By Syun Akasofu Of International Arctic Research Center At The University of Alaska Fairbanks Dr. Syun Akasofu has provided us with a guest weblog…
National Wildlife Federation predicts more Cleveland heat waves
People send me stuff. I’m thinking they must be worried about the urban animals. Why else would a wildlife federation be jumping into city public policy? Hmmm. I’m not against…
Soot And The Arctic Ice – A Win-Win Policy Based On Chinese Coal Fired Power Plants
Via Roger Pielke Senior’s new and improved Climate Science Blog: Kiminori Itoh of Yokohama National University has prepared a guest weblog for us. It is titled: “Soot And The Arctic…
Climate Science: follow the money
Government monopsony distorts climate science, says SPPI The climate industry is costing taxpayers $79 billion and counting Washington, DC 7/22/2009 09:12 PM GMT from TransWorldNews The Science and Public Policy…
Historic parallels in our time: the killing of cattle -vs- carbon
From our perspective as a modern society, the actions of the Xhosa would seem foolhardy, even insane. First let me say, I’m not at all against alternate energy, or improved…
U.N.'s 'Global Warming=300,000 Deaths a Year' Report – Kofi Annan implies: "close enough for government work"
Many of you have probably heard by now of the UN. Report saying that “global warming is killing 300,000 people a year”. There’s a Times Online Story (h/t to Gary…
Leaked OMB CO2 memo: "no demonstrated direct health effects"
All is not well in CO2 regulation land. You may have heard about a leaked memo from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that questions the EPA findings on…
Dealing with climate change in the context of other, more urgent threats to human and environmental well-being
Guest post by: Indur M. Goklany In a series of posts (collected here) we saw that no matter how significant climate change may seem when viewed in isolation, it pales…
Sugar coated consumerism or just plain crap?
I’m truly sorry for the title, but it says what I think about this succinctly. I tried half a dozen variations and kept coming back to the one word. There…
Is Climate Change the “Defining Challenge of Our Age”? Part 3 of 3
Part III: Where does global warming rank among future risks to environmental health? Guest essay by Indur M. Goklany NOTE: Entire 3 part series is now available as a PDF…
Is Climate Change the “Defining Challenge of Our Age”? Part 2 of 3
Part II: Where does global warming rank among future risks to public health? Guest essay by Indur M. Goklany In Part 1, we saw that at present climate change is…
Is Climate Change the "Defining Challenge of Our Age"? Part 1 of 3
Part I: Ranking global warming among present-day risks to public health. Guest essay by Indur M. Goklany There seems to be no limit to the hyperbole surrounding climate change –…
Are today's poorer generations morally obliged to solve problems that may or may not confront tomorrow's much wealthier generations?
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany http://Goklany.org Some people argue that we are morally obliged to reduce greenhouse gases aggressively because otherwise the world’s current development path would be unsustainable,…
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