The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future outlines the growing risks to health and climate
Tag: climate change
False spring: Climate change may erode frogs’ ability to withstand salt pollution
Peer-Reviewed Publication BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Climate change may erode frogs’ ability to withstand road salt pollution, according to researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Driven…
Sorry, World Bank and Mainstream Media, Climate Change Not Driving Immigration
Had the media outlets hyping the Groundswell report bothered to examine existing data, they would have found the World Bank’s claims were unfounded. The World Bank’s immigration projections are based…
The Malden Wildfire and Climate Change: Why Are Major Media and Politicians Distorting the Truth?
Unfortunately, a number of media outlets (e.g., the Seattle Times and NPR), politicians, and activist groups are consistently distorting the truth. There are few better examples of this problematic behavior than…
Medical Journals Commit Malpractice with Climate Change Misdiagnosis
Data consistently show human health has steadily improved during the recent period of modest warming. Premature deaths from extreme temperatures, extreme weather events, and weather-related illnesses and mosquito borne diseases…
Marc Morano Demolishes Biden Campaigner’s Extreme Weather Claims On TV
And credit to Fox News’ Dan Bongino, who inconveniently points out that the actual data does not support Walling’s claims that storms are getting worse.
Beijing demands US fulfill wish list of demands in exchange for cooperation on climate change
Among its demands, the CCP requires the United States not to “infringe” upon China’s “sovereignty” in the troubled regions of Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong. Many Western governments, including the…
More On European Climate Change Litigation: These People Are Crazy
Plenty of judges, including many at the highest level of the court system, have bought into the anthropogenic climate change religion, and are just itching to get the chance to…
‘Hypocrite’ Prince Harry jets home from Aspen despite lectures on climate change
The Duke of Sussex has been labelled a “hypocrite” for choosing to take the two-hour flight back to his mansion in Montecito via the £45million Gulfstream jet. He boarded the…
Claim: Climate change threatens seal hunting by Indigenous Alaskans
Hunters worry that in future years, ugruk and ice floes may be farther from Kotzebue across large expanses of open water, increasing the risk to boaters and lowering their chance…
Warfare, not climate, is driving resurgent hunger in Africa, says study
One of the hardest-hit regions is sub-Saharan Africa. Here, many people reflexively blame droughts stoked by climate change. However, a new study looking at the question in granular detail says…
Fussing Over One Degree of Simulation
Allowing some historical perspective shows that the IPCC is wrong to label the recent temperature changes ‘unprecedented’. They are not unusual in magnitude, direction or rate of change, which should…
Comments On Federal Scientific Integrity
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe. It is quite another to do so when the environmental…
What is the National Food Strategy and how could it change the way England eats?
Reforming England’s food system could save the country £126 billion, according to a recent government-commissioned report. The National Food Strategy, led by British businessman Henry Dimbleby, proposes a raft of…
Biden Administration Working To Undermine America
It’s hard to imagine a more counter-productive set of policies than what the Biden Administration is implementing under the rubric of supposedly “fighting climate change.”
Claim: Global evidence links rise in extreme precipitation to human-driven climate change
Understanding how humans influence extreme precipitation is important for interpreting climate events today and for preparing cities and protective infrastructure for the changing world ahead.
Claim: NASA Satellites See Upper Atmosphere Cooling and Contracting Due to Climate Change
The sky isn’t falling, but scientists have found that parts of the upper atmosphere are gradually contracting in response to rising human-made greenhouse gas emissions.
New Paper From Richard Tol: The Economic Impact of Weather and Climate
I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and…
The Economic Costs Of Climate Change–Swiss Re
Coming back to the UK, it is simply absurd to claim that we would be £50 billion better off with the climate of the Little Ice Age, Our agriculture would…
Claim: Climate change is making ocean waves more powerful, threatening to erode many coastlines
People in these nations may experience both sea level rise and increasing wave power on their coastlines, eroding land further up the beach and damaging property. These areas should be…
John Stossel Pushes Back Against FB Censorship
Well, of course climate change is real! But how serious a threat it is, and whether we can do much about it with today’s technology deserves debate. Victor’s little group…
One-third of Americans unwilling to spend $1 to fight climate change
This latest poll suggests that 56% would not want to pay more than $20 a month. By contrast, only 1% would pay $1000 a month; indeed only the wealthiest could…
Claim: The Climate Crisis is Not About Overpopulation, the Problem is Affluence
A debate is raging amongst climate economists, about whether we need a drastic reduction in global population, or whether simply making everyone poor will suffice to save the planet.
BBC Climate Check–April 2021
It is noticeable that the BBC’s latest Climate Check is much more circumspect than unusual. There is virtually no attempt to blame bad weather on global warming. The only reference…
